Hair is a 1968 cast recording of the musical Hair

Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...

on the RCA

RCA

RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...

 label. Sarah Erlewine, for Allmusic, wrote: "The music is heartening and invigorating, including the classics "Aquarius," "Good Morning Starshine

Good Morning Starshine

"Good Morning Starshine" is a pop song from the musical Hair. It was a #3 hit in the United States in June of 1969 for the singer Oliver.-History:...

," "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

Gerome Ragni

Gerome Bernard Ragni was an American actor, singer and songwriter, best known as the co-author of the groundbreaking 1960s Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.-Early life:...

 and James Rado exactly what they were aiming for – not to speak for their generation, but to speak for themselves."

The recording received a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 in 1968 for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album and sold nearly 3 million copies in the U.S. by December 1969. (RCA LSO-1150) 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."

Track listing

Music by Galt MacDermot

Galt MacDermot

Galt MacDermot is a Canadian composer, pianist and writer of musical theatre. He won a Grammy Award for the song African Waltz in 1960. His most successful musicals have been Hair and Two Gentlemen of Verona...

; lyrics by Gerome Ragni

Gerome Ragni

Gerome Bernard Ragni was an American actor, singer and songwriter, best known as the co-author of the groundbreaking 1960s Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.-Early life:...

 and James Rado.

1. "Aquarius" 2:55
2. "Donna/Hashish" 2:45
3. "Sodomy" :50
4. "Coloured Spade" 1:10
5. "Manchester England" 1:20
6. "I'm Black/Aint Got No" 1:10
7. "Air" 1:15
8. "Initials" :55
9. "I Got Life" 3:05
10. "Hair
    Hair (song)
    "Hair" is the title song to the 1968 musical Hair, as well as the 1979 film version of the musical.The song was a major hit single for The Cowsills in 1969 and their most successful single. Their version spent two weeks at #1 on the Cash Box Top 100 and reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100...
    
    " 2:55
11. "My Conviction" 1:36
12. "Dont Put It Down" 2:00
13. "Frank Mills" 2:05
14. "Be-In" 3:00
15. "Where Do I go?" 2:40
16. "Black Boys/White Boys" 3:35
17. "Easy To Be Hard" 2:35
18. "Walking In Space" 5:00
19. "Abie Baby" 2:45
20. "Three-Five-Zero-Zero
    Three-Five-Zero-Zero
    "Three-Five-Zero-Zero" is an anti-war song, from the 1968 musical Hair, consisting of a montage of words and phrases similar to those of the 1966 Allen Ginsberg poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra". In the song, the phrases are combined to create images of the violence of military combat and aspects of the...
    
    /What a Piece of Work is Man" 4:45
21. "Good Morning Starshine
    Good Morning Starshine
    "Good Morning Starshine" is a pop song from the musical Hair. It was a #3 hit in the United States in June of 1969 for the singer Oliver.-History:...
    
    " 2:30
22. "The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In)" 3:35

See also

• Hair (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording)
  Hair (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording)
  Hair is the cast recording of the original, Off-Broadway cast of the musical Hair. It was released in 1967 on the RCA label. Hair premiered Off-Broadway at the Public Theatre on October 17, 1967, and the cast album was recorded two weeks later...
  
  
• Hair: Original Soundtrack Recording
  Hair: Original Soundtrack Recording
  Hair: Original Soundtrack Recording is the soundtrack album from the 1979 musical film Hair. It was released on the RCA label. A few verses from "Manchester, England" and a small portion of "Walking in Space" have been removed...