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"Good Morning Starshine" is a song from the second act of the musical Hair (1967). It is performed by the character Sheila, played off-Broadway in 1967 by Jill O'Hara, and by Lynn Kellogg in the original 1968 Broadway production. In the 1979 film version of the musical, Sheila is portrayed by Beverly D'Angelo. [citation needed]
He was a member of two popular music groups — The Virginians and, later, The Good Earth — and was then known as Bill Swofford. His uptempo single "Good Morning Starshine" from the pop/rock musical Hair reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1969, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. a month later ...
Oliver covered "Good Morning Starshine" in 1969, hitting #3. Strawberry Alarm Clock covered "Good Morning Starshine" in 1969, charting at #87. [16] Three Dog Night covered "Easy to Be Hard" in 1969, hitting #4. Run–D.M.C. sampled "Where Do I Go?" in their 1993 song "Down with the King", which charted at #21 on the Hot 100.
MacDermot also composed music for film soundtracks, jazz and funk albums, and classical music, and his music has been sampled in hit hip-hop songs and albums. He is best known for his work on Hair, which produced three number-one singles in 1969: "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", "Good Morning Starshine", and the title song "Hair".
The latter five songs were originally recorded for the film but were eventually cut. They can be found on this album, although they were omitted on the 1990 reissue. [1] A new song written by MacDermot for the film is "Somebody to Love". A few verses from "Manchester, England" and a small portion of "Walking in Space" have been removed.
The title song as well as another song from the musical, "Good Morning Starshine," were featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the Season 5, 8th episode "Hercules Unchained". [23] On The Simpsons episode, "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", the song is played in the background as Marge's hair starts to fall out from stress ...
Good Morning Starshine is the first studio album by pop rock singer Oliver released in 1969. The album reached No. 19 on the Billboard 200. [1] Its title track hit No. 3 on both the Adult Contemporary chart and the Billboard Hot 100. [2] The single "Jean" hit No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart and No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Born in Newark in 1930 [1] and raised in Belleville, New Jersey, Crewe demonstrated an early and apparent gift for both art and music. [citation needed] Although lacking in formal musical training, he gravitated to learning from many of the great 19th- and 20th-century classical romantic composers as well as giants of jazz and swing, including Stan Kenton, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Benny ...