Hair (Stan Kenton album)

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Hair
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Studio album by
Stan Kenton
Released1969
RecordedJune 6 & 11–14, 1969
Studio Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre Jazz
Label Capitol ST 305
Producer Lee Gillette
Stan Kenton chronology
Finian's Rainbow
(1968)		Hair
(1969)		 Live at Redlands University
(1970)

Hair is an album by bandleader Stan Kenton featuring big band versions of tunes from the rock musical Hair recorded in 1969 for Capitol Records. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Galt MacDermot, James Rado and Gerome Ragni.

  1. "Aquarius" - 3:00
  2. "Walking in Space" - 3:57
  3. "Frank Mills" - 2:10
  4. "I Got Life" - 2:15
  5. "Colored Spade" - 4:07
  6. "Where Do I Go?" - 2:48
  7. "Sodomy" - 4:41
  8. "Hare Krishna (Be In)" - 3:05
  9. "Easy to Be Hard" - 3:10
  10. "Good Morning Starshine" - 2:45

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Vosbein, P. Stan Kenton Discography accessed August 4, 2016
  2. ↑ Watts, R., Edwards, D., Eyries, P. and Callahan, M. Capitol 100-800 Main Series (1968 to 1972) accessed August 4, 2016
  3. ↑ The Capitol Sessions of Stan Kenton: 1969 accessed August 4, 2016
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