Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Aquarius
2. Donna
3. Hashish
4. Sodomy
5. Colored Spade
6. Manchester England
7. I'm Black
8. Ain't Got No
9. I Believe in Love - (previously unreleased)
10. Air
11. Initials
12. I Got Life
13. Going Down
14. Hair
15. My Conviction
16. Easy to Be Hard
17. Don't Put It Down
18. Frank Mills
19. Be-In
20. Where Do I Go?
21. Electric Blues - (previously unreleased)
22. Manchester England - (previously unreleased, reprise)
23. Black Boys
24. White Boys
25. Walking in Space
26. Abie Baby
27. Three-Five-Zero-Zero
28. What A Piece Of Work Is Man
29. Walking in Space - (previously unreleased, reprise)
30. Good Morning Starshine
31. Bed, The - (previously unreleased)
32. Flesh Failures, The (Let the Sunshine in)
DISC 2:
1. Ain't Got No
2. I Got Life
3. Air
4. Going Down
5. Hair
6. Dead End
7. Frank Mills
8. Hare Krishna
9. Where Do I Go?
10. Electric Blues
11. Easy to Be Hard
12. Manchester
13. White Boys
14. Black Boys
15. Walking in Space
16. Aquarius
17. Good Morning Starshine
18. Exanaplanetooch
19. Climax, The
20. Opening
21. Red Blue & White
22. Sentimental Ending
23. How Did You Become Involved With "Hair"?
24. What Do You Remember About the Off-Broadway Cast Recording?
25. And the Broadway Cast Recording?
26. In the Recording Session Photos, You Were the Only Person Wearing a Jacket and Tie
27. How Did the Two Productions Differ?
28. You Were Not a Traditional Theatre Composer. Did You Have Any Models or Influences?
29. Did "Hair" Influence Your Later Work, Like, "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?
30. "Hair" Was Controversial With Critics and the Public. Did This Affect You at All?
31. On Writing Music For the Theatre and What Makes a Popular Song
32. Did You Ever Have to Rewrite Any of the "Hair" Songs?
33. What Sort of Music Do You Write Now?
34. Do You Use Synthsizers?
35. Have You Got Any Advice For People Who Want to Compose For Musical Theatre?
36. Does Any One Song in "Hair" Express Your Philosophy?
| Details | | Playing Time: | 66 min. | | Producer: | Andy Wiswell, Rick Rowe | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | ADD |
Album Notes
Principal cast includes: Ronald Dyson (Ron); James Rado (Claude); Gerome Ragni (Berger); Steve Curry (Woof); Lamont Washington (Hud); Lynn Kellogg (Sheila); Sally Eaton (Jeanie); Melba Moore (Dionne); Shelley Plimpton (Crissy); Diane Keaton (Waitress); Jonathan Kramer (Young Recruit); Paul Jabara (General Grant); Lorrie Davis (Abraham Lincoln); Donnie Burks (Sergeant).
Producer: Andy Wiswell.
Recorded in RCA Studio B, New York, New York on May 6, 1968.
Composer: Galt MacDermot.
Lyricists: Gerome Ragni; James Rado.
The first and best musical of the hippie peace and love generation, with a score by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and composer Galt Macdermot. The show and the album were quite different to the usual Broadway fare, but songs such as 'Aquarius', 'Good Morning Starshine', 'Let The Sunshine In' and the title number, soon went on to have a life of their own. The album spent 59 weeks in the US Top 40, 13 of them at number 1, and also did well in the UK. It was also awarded a Grammy for 'best score from an Original Cast album'.
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