Hair (1968) Vinyl LP • Original Broadway Cast Soundtrack, Aquarius

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Vinyl plays with some crackles and a few light-clicks (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; scuffing, surface impressions, discoloration with darker discoloration spots, surface abrasions (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (RCA ads); one seam partially split, one seam mostly split. Spine is partly readable with wear and splits (crooked text). Some shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners along. Opening is crisp with signs of use and divots. Orange label. Name written on one side of label and cover. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. Aquarius (Ronnie Dyson and "Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
2. Donna / Hashish (Gerome Ragni, "Hair" Original Broadway Cast, and "Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
3. Sodomy (Steve Curry and "Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
4. Colored Spade (Lamont Washington and "Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
5. Manchester England (James Rado and "Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
6. I'm Black / Ain't Got No (Lamont Washington, Steve Curry, Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Steve Curry, Lamont Washington, Melba Moore, and "Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
7. Air (Sally Eaton, Shelley Plimpton, Melba Moore, and "Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
8. Initials ("Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
9. I Got Life (James Rado and "Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
10. Hair (James Rado, Gerome Ragni, and "Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
11. My Conviction (Jonathan Kramer )
12. Don't Put It Down (Gerome Ragni and Steve Curry )
13. Frank Mills (Shelley Plimpton )
14. Be-In ("Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
15. Where Do I Go? (James Rado and "Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
16. Black Boys / White Boys (Diane Keaton, Suzannah Norstrand, Natalie Mosco, Melba Moore, Lorrie Davis, and Emmaretta Marks )
17. Easy To Be Hard (Lynn Kellogg )
18. Walking In Space ("Hair" Original Broadway Cast )
19. Abie Baby (Lamont Washington, Ronnie Dyson, Donnie Burks, and Lorrie Davis )
20. Three-Five-Zero-Zero / What A Piece Of Work Is Man ("Hair" Original Broadway Cast, Ronnie Dyson, and Walter Harris )
21. Good Morning Starshine (Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore, James Rado, and Gerome Ragni )
22. The Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In) (James Rado, Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore, and "Hair" Original Broadway Cast )

About The Record:

Hair is a 1968 cast recording of the musical of the same name. Sarah Erlewine, for Allmusic, wrote: "The music is heartening and invigorating, including the classics Aquarius, Good Morning Starshine, Let the Sunshine In, Frank Mills ... 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." The album charted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the last Broadway cast album to do so. Hair's cast album stayed at No. 1 for 13 weeks in 1969. The recording also received a Grammy Award in 1969 for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album and sold nearly 3 million copies in the U.S. by December 1969. The New York Times noted in 2007 that "The cast album of Hair was... a must-have for the middle classes. Its exotic orange-and-green cover art imprinted itself instantly and indelibly on the psyche.... [It] became a pop-rock classic that, like all good pop, has an appeal that transcends particular tastes for genre or period."