Hair [Original Broadway Cast]

1	Aquarius 2:53
2	Donna 2:08
3	Hashish 1:03
4	Sodomy 0:52
5	Colored Spade 1:12
6	Manchester England 1:20
7	I'm Black / Lamont Washington 0:36
8	Ain't Got No 0:43
9	I Believe in Love previously unreleased 1:08
10	Ain't Got No (Reprise) previously unreleased 1:17
11	Air 1:28
12	Initials 0:55
13	I Got Life 3:05
14	Going Down previously unreleased 2:17
15	Hair 2:58
16	My Conviction / Jonathan Kramer 1:39
17	Easy to Be Hard / Lynn Kellogg 2:35
18	Don't Put It Down / Gerome Ragni 2:01
19	Frank Mills / Shelley Plimpton 2:07
20	Be-In 3:05
21	Where Do I Go? 2:40
22	Electric Blues previously unreleased 2:35
23	Manchester England (Reprise) previously unreleased 0:30
24	Black Boys / Suzannah Norstrand 1:10
25	White Boys / Suzannah Norstrand 2:28
26	Walking in Space 4:55
27	Abie Baby / Ronald Dyson 2:45
28	Three-Five-Zero-Zero 3:09
29	What a Piece of Work Is Man / Ronald Dyson 1:36
30	Good Morning Starshine / Gerome Ragni 2:32
31	The Bed previously unreleased 2:58
32	The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In) 3:38

Barnes & Noble

With the advent of 1968's Hair, the era of the rock musical -- and the Age of Aquarius -- had dawned on Broadway. Subtitled "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical," HAIR is a joyous and irreverent celebration of youth. Gerome Ragni, James Rado, and Galt MacDermot's golden score is filled with beauty and whimsy. Marvelous moments like "Good Morning Starshine," "Frank Mills," "I Got Life," and the title number are sophisticated, kinetic, and, above all, great fun. The cast recording, featuring Melba Moore, Diane Keaton, Paul Jabara, and Ronnie Dyson, captures all the ecstasy and agony of the 1960s. Showstoppers "Easy to Be Hard," "Where Do I Go?," and "Walking in Space" rank with the best pop songwriting of the decade. Hair's five-year Broadway run is legendary; the cast album also made history when it stayed at the top of the pop charts for 13 weeks during the musically hyperactive spring of 1969. Thirty years later Hair remains the definitive rock musical. David Elliot Cohen

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 theater, 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