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Various Artists: Hair

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Label: RCA Records
Released: 1969
Time:
 57:06
Category: Musical
Producer(s):
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address:
Appears with:
Purchase date: 1999.04.03
Price in €: 7,99



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[1] Aquarius (Macdermot/Rado) - 2:53
[2] Donna (Macdermot/Rado) - 2:08
[3] Hashish (Macdermot/Rado) - 1:03
[4] Sodomy (Macdermot/Rado) - 0:52
[5] Colored Spade (Macdermot/Rado) - 1:12
[6] Manchester England (Macdermot/Rado) - 1:20
[7] I'm Black (Macdermot/Rado) - 0:36
[8] Ain't Got No (Macdermot/Rado) - 0:43
[9] Air (Macdermot/Rado) - 1:28
[10] Initials (Macdermot/Rado) - 0:55
[11] I Got Life (Macdermot/Rado) - 3:05
[12] Hair (Macdermot/Rado) - 2:58
[13] My Conviction (Macdermot/Rado) - 1:39
[14] Easy to Be Hard (Macdermot/Rado) - 2:35
[15] Don't Put It Down (Macdermot/Rado) - 2:01
[16] Frank Mills (Macdermot/Rado) - 2:07
[17] Be-In (Macdermot/Rado) - 3:05
[18] Where Do I Go? (Macdermot/Rado) - 2:40
[19] Black Boys (Macdermot/Rado) - 1:10
[20] White Boys (Davis/Marks) - 2:28
[21] Walking in Space (Macdermot/Rado) - 4:55
[22] Abie Baby (Macdermot/Rado) - 2:45
[23] Three-Five-Zero-Zero (Macdermot/Rado) - 3:09
[24] What a Piece of Work Is Man (Macdermot/Rado) - 1:36
[25] Good Morning Starshine (Macdermot/Rado) - 2:32
[26] Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In (Macdermot/Rado) - 3:38

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Jimmy Lewis - Bass
Idris Muhammad - Drums
Galt Macdermot - Electric Piano
Warren Chiasson - Percussion
Steve Gillette - Guitar
Zane Paul - Reeds, Reeds, Woodwind
Ed Williams - Trumpet
Alan Fontaine - Guitar
Donald Leight - Trumpet

Melba Moore - Vocals
Sally Eaton - Vocals
Paul Jabara - Vocals
Ronnie Dyson - Vocals
Leata Galloway - Vocals
Walter Harris - Vocals
Jonathan Kramer - Vocals
Emmeretta Marks - Vocals
Donnie Burks - Vocals
Steve Curry - Vocals
Lorrie Davis - Vocals
Steve Gamet - Vocals
Diane Keaton - Vocals
Hiram Keller - Vocals
Lynn Kellogg - Vocals
Marjorie LiPari - Vocals
Natalie Mosco - Vocals
Suzannah Norstrand - Vocals
Shelley Plimpton - Vocals
James Rado - Vocals
Gerome Ragni - Vocals
Robert I. Rubinsky - Vocals
Lamont Washington - Vocals

Rick Rowe - Producer, Engineer
Andy Wiswell - Producer
Nat Shapiro - Liner Notes
Didier C. Deutsch - Liner Notes

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The appearance of "the American Tribal Love Rock Musical" on Broadway in April of 1968 had an effect not unlike the arrival of the motion picture Woodstock two years later. Hair helped to popularize and, ultimately, to trivialize the "counter-culture" it sought to celebrate. But the Gerome Ragni/ James Rado/ Galt MacDermot score remains one of the most appealing artifacts of the Age of Aquarius.

Marjorie Ellen Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide



RCA's 20th Anniversary Edition of Hair celebrates the birthday of the film version of the popular Broadway musical. The filmed version never quite had the spark of the original, but it was still very entertaining, as this soundtrack illustrates. For dedicated fans of the film, this is a nice treat, largely due to the remastered sound and Joseph F. Laredo's fine liner notes.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide



Hair was both celebratory and anticlimactic at the same time. Heralded by many at the time as being a rejuvenation for musical theatre, it was also supposed to "speak" for the youth. The problem with that is that any time you attempt to allow a piece of written work to speak for a generation, it invariably fails. It is undoubtedly impossible for one musical to classify every attitude held by a person under 30 at that time. Given this fact, Hair was destined to be considered a disappointment. However, if you take the score out of this context and listen to it simply as a snippet of some prevalent beliefs of the time, or simply as a fictional work, it is really quite wonderful. As Claude's best friend is expelled from high school and the love of Claude's life loves someone else, Claude must struggle with the decision to submit to government regulations in which he doesn't believe. A youthful exuberance covers the proceedings, with the first act ending with the infamous nude sequence. The music is heartening and invigorating, including the classics "Aquarius," "Good Morning Starshine," "Let the Sunshine In," "Frank Mills" (which was covered by the Lemonheads on their 1992 album It's a Shame About Ray) and "Easy to Be Hard." The joy that has been instilled in this original Broadway cast recording shines through, capturing in the performances of creators Gerome Ragni and James Rado exactly what they were aiming for — not to speak for their generation, but to speak for themselves.

Sarah Erlewine, All-Music Guide
 

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