Hair (Deluxe Edition) (1968 Original Broadway Cast and 1967 off Broadway Cast)
Hair (Deluxe Edition) (1968 Original Broadway Cast and 1967 off Broadway Cast)
(Audio CD) by Galt MacDermot
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Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date:
November 04, 2003
Studio:
RCA Victor Broadway
Composer:
Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado
Number Of Discs:
2
Format:
Cast Recording, Collector's Edition, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
Average Customer Rating:
based on 67 reviews
Description:
"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
Track Listing:
Disc: 1
1.
Aquarius
2.
Donna
3.
Hashish
4.
Sodomy
5.
Colored Spade
6.
Manchester, England
7.
Ain't Got No
8.
I Believe in Love
9.
Ain't Got No (Reprise)
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
22.
Manchester England (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/Walking in Space (Reprise)
29.
Good Morning Starshine
30.
The Bed
31.
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.
The Climax
20.
Opening
21.
Red Blue and White
22.
Sentimental Ending
23.
Interview With Galt MacDermot: How Did You Become Involved With ... -
24.
Interview With Galt MacDermot: What Do You Remember About the ... -
25.
Interview With Galt MacDermot: And the Broadway Cast Recording? -
26.
Interview With Galt MacDermot: How Did the Two Productions Differ? -
27.
Interview With Galt MacDermot: You Were Not a Traditional Theater ... -
28.
Interview With Galt MacDermot: Did "Hair" Influence Your Later ... -
29.
Interview With Galt MacDermot: "Hair" Was Controversial With ... -
30.
Interview With Galt MacDermot: On Writing Music for the Theater, ... -
31.
Interview With Galt MacDermot: Have You Got Any Advice for People ... -
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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
"Hair" reviewNov 11, 2008 The product came in excelent condision but it took so long.
I wanted to have the oportunity to hear a peace of the cd
befor i buy it
One of the best musicals everNov 09, 2008 I love this soundtrack. The storyline is more relevant than ever, but even if it weren't the music is terrific.
Let the Sun Shine...Jul 06, 2008 Hair...the seminal Rock Musical for the ages... Once upon a time in the mythical land called America great thoughts and changes began to appear across the land. People, especially the younger one's began to actually listen to the music...their music...Full of promises and prayers, asking the questions and finding the answers... Love...Understanding ...fellowship... permeated the soft sweet aromatic waves of the times.
The age of Aquarius came and went...only the music remains.... Let the sunshine, let the sunshine, shine through...
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Get the movie soundtrack, it's way betterJun 28, 2008 I came to this backwards in time; I saw the movie version first and listened to that soundtrack. Go and buy that one, not this one; that one is way better. The musicality is outstanding on that one, whereas this has a second-rate AM radio sound. I was a pre-teen when the play of Hair came out and I remember most of the songs from AM radio in the late 60s--but after listening to the soundtrack I realize why most of the hits from Hair were recorded by other people. "Aquarius" was popularized by the Fifth Dimension. "Hair" was popularized by the the Cowsills. "Easy to Be Hard" was popularized by Three Dog Night. All those versions are better than the soundtrack (and some are not very good). Listen to Cheryl Barnes sing "Easy to Be Hard" in the film: it is outstanding.
TIMELESS CLASSICJun 27, 2008 This is certainly a classic of the era. To understand it fully you would have to have seen - even if it was 40 years ago.
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