Hair (Original London Cast Recording)

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Hair
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Cast recording
Released1968
Genre Pop, R&B
Label Polydor
Atco (North America)
Producer George R. Marck, Andy Wiswell[ citation needed ]

Hair is a 1968 album recording of the London cast production of the musical Hair featuring Paul Nicholas, Vince Edward, Oliver Tobias, Michael Feast, Peter Straker, Annabel Leventon, Linda Kendrick, Marsha Hunt, Sonja Kristina and others conducted by Derek Wadsworth. [1] [2] The album was reissued in 1976 by Reader's Digest with a new cover using the playbill photo of Marsha Hunt. The original cover art is by Stanislaw Zagórski.

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Reader's Digest 1976 LP cover changed to use the 1968 playbill photo of Marsha Hunt. Editing Hair (Original London Cast Recording 1976 Readers Digest cover with Marsha Hunt).jpg
Reader's Digest 1976 LP cover changed to use the 1968 playbill photo of Marsha Hunt.
  1. "Aquarius" - Vince Edward and Original London Cast
  2. "Donna" - Oliver Tobias and Original London Cast
  3. "Sodomy" - Michael Feast and Original London Cast
  4. "Coloured Spade" - Peter Straker and Original London Cast
  5. "Ain't Got No" - Michael Feast, Peter Straker, Joanne White and Original London Cast
  6. "Air" - Linda Kendrick and Original London Cast
  7. "I Got Life" Paul Nicholas and Original London Cast
  8. "Hair" - Paul Nicholas, Oliver Tobias and Original London Cast
  9. "My Conviction" - Andy Forray and Original London Cast
  10. "Easy To Be Hard" - Annabel Leventon
  11. "Frank Mills" - Sonja Kristina
  12. "Where Do I Go" - Paul Nicholas and Original London Cast
  13. "Electric Blues" - John Gulliver, Rohan McCullough, Andy Forray, Jimmy Winston, Paul Korda and Original London Cast
  14. "Black Boys" - Collette Kelly, Rohan McCullough, Lucy Fenwick
  15. "White Boys" - Marsha Hunt, Ethel Coley, Joanne White
  16. "Walking In Space" - Original London Cast
  17. "Abie Baby" - Peter Straker, Limbert Spencer, Leighton Robinson
  18. "Three-Five-Zero-Zero - Original London Cast
  19. "What A Piece Of Work Is Man" - Vince Edward, Leighton Robinson
  20. "Good Morning Starshine" - Annabel Leventon, Linda Kendrick and Original London Cast
  21. "The Bed" - Original London Cast
  22. "Let the Sunshine In" - Annabel Leventon, Marsha Hunt and The Tribe

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References

  1. Stereo Review, Volume 23, p. 114, 1969: "... At any rate, the London cast tries hard and pitches in with much skill and energy, but the results sound strained, overanxious to please, and just a little alien to the proper idiom of Hair."
  2. RAYMOND JACK - 1992 - SHOW MUSIC ON RECORD - Page 261 HAIR 1968 London prod. COND: Derek Wadsworth. CAST: Paul Nicholas, Annabel Leventon, Peter Straker, Vince Edward, Oliver Tobias, Michael Feast, Linda Kendrick, Andy Forray, Sonja Kristina. (ATCO SD-7002) 671029e ..... HAIR 1969 Australian prod. ORCH & COND: Patrick Flynn. CAST: Terry Wilson, Wayne Matthews, ...