Hair (Deluxe Edition) (1968 Original Broadway Cast and 1967 Off-Broadway Cast)
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Composer: Galt MacDermotComposer: Gerome Ragni
Composer: James Rado
Performer: Melba Moore
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Collector's Edition, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-11-04
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Aquarius
- Donna
- Hashish
- Sodomy
- Colored Spade
- Manchester, England
- I'm Black
- Ain't Got No
- I Believe in Love [#]
- Ain't Got No (Reprise) [#]
- Air
- Initials
- I Got Life
- Going Down [#]
- Hair
- My Conviction
- Easy to Be Hard
- Don't Put It Down
- Frank Mills
- Be-In
- Where Do I Go? [#]
- Electric Blues [#]
- Manchester England (Reprise) [#]
- Black Boys
- White Boys
- Walking in Space
- Abie Baby
- Three-Five-Zero-Zero
- What a Piece of Work Is Man/Walking in Space (Reprise) [#]
- Good Morning Starshine
- The Bed [#]
- Let the Sunshine In
- Ain't Got No
- I Got Life
- Air
- Going Down
- Hair
- Dead End
- Frank Mills
- Hare Krishna
- Where Do I Go?
- Electric Blues
- Easy to Be Hard
- Manchester
- White Boys
- Black Boys
- Walking in Space
- Aquarius
- Good Morning Starshine
- Exanaplanetooch
- The Climax
- Opening [#]
- Red Blue and White [#]
- Sentimental Ending [#]
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: How Did You Become Involved With ...
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: What Do You Remember About the ...
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: And the Broadway Cast Recording?
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: In the Recording Session Photos, ...
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: How Did the Two Productions Differ?
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: You Were Not a Traditional Theater ...
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: Did "Hair" Influence Your Later ...
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: "Hair" Was Controversial With ...
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: On Writing Music for the Theater, ...
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: Did You Ever Have to Rewrite Any of the
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: What Sort of Music Do You Write Now?
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: Do You Use Synthesizers?
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: Have You Got Any Advice for People ...
- Interview With Galt MacDermot: Does Any One Song in "Hair" Express ...
Free Music Notes for Hair (Deluxe Edition) (1968 Original Broadway Cast and 1967 Off-Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: Let This ***HAIR*** Grow On You!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have to admit that at first listen I didn't like the HAIR (DELUXE EDITION) 1968-OBC. Some of the songs were unfamiliar and the arrangements were different than the ones presented in Milos Forman's film Hair, which was my introduction to the American Tribal Love Rock Musical.
The movie soundtrack Hair: Original Soundtrack Recording - Special Anniversary Edition was so seared into my brain that I thought I could never like the original. Every time I'd take a listen, I would only hear Treat Williams or Nell Carter from the movie or Cheryl Barnes's version of "Easy To Be Hard" in my head (which is still the best, imo). So I put it away for a while.
Now that HAIR has been revived on Broadway--also with its own soundtrack Hair (The New Broadway Cast Recording), which is pretty good--I decided to revisit the original Hair.
I now find that I love the 60s original just as much as its later and current incarnation.
The music definitely has a psychedelic vibe and is much more rock oriented than the polished screen version or even the current soundtrack, and it has grown on me. Of course, I still prefer the arrangement of the male and female duets on "White Boys" and "Black Boys," and "Easy To Be Hard" from the movie but the songs are still good, either way.
The special two-CD set of HAIR 1968 OBC is the one to get as it's remastered, sounds great, and includes the "Off-Broadway Cast Recording" and interview with the Hair's musical composer Galt MacDermot (who really should have won a Pulitzer for putting Hair's lyrics to music).
If you're like me and grew up with the movie soundtrack give the 1968 OBC soundtrack a chance. It'll grow on you, too.
Each of the three incarnations of the HAIR SOUNDTRACKS have their own unique personality and style; but what they all have in common is incredible energy and heart, with lyrics and music that send a message directly to your soul getting it to buzz with youthful/hopeful energy.
The two-CDs come packaged in a tri-foldout cardboard/plastic holder and also has a small book that's glued to the middle panel, so you can read it with the tri-fold package open. The booklet contains cast information, song/track listing, liner notes from the original 1967 Off-Broadway Cast Album by Elenore Lester, history and synopsis of what was going on on-stage for each of the songs by Didier C. Deutsch and Lorrie Davis. There's photos of the cast taken during the recording sessions and additional liner notes by Daniel Guss on the bonus tracks.
Well worth it! I just wish the booklet wasn't glued to the inside of the package so I could read it easier.
Hair (Deluxe Edition) (1968 Original Broadway Cast and 1967 Off-Broadway Cast) Poster
Studio recordings of the original Broadway cast starring Melba Moore and Diane Keaton. Includes the classics Aquarius; Good Morning Starshine; Let the Sunshine In . Plus other cult favorites: Black Boys; White Boys; I'm Black; Ain't Got No; Sodomy; Colored Spade; Manchester England; I Believe in Love; Ain't Got No (reprise); Air , and more."America's First Tribal Love-Rock Musical," went the advertising, and nobody could argue with that. Hair opened on Broadway in 1968 and immediately became a smash, although no one could quite discern what it was about. Something like, "War is bad, drugs are good, racism bites the big one, and nudity is nice." Although all these sentiments are expressed on this album which, like the show, has not dated well, the quality of the music makes it forgiveable. The songs weren't really rock, but they accomplished what all good pop songs set out to do; stick in the craw. In fact, several of its tracks later became hits for pop acts, including "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" (The Fifth Dimension), "Hair" (The Cowsills), and "Good Morning Starshine" (Oliver). --Dawn Eden
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