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I thought I'd start a weekly feature, and continue it if people are interested. I'm going to post a song about hair every week. Collect 'em all and burn your own CD! Suggestions are welcome.
For this inaugural episode, we have perhaps the finest, most celebratory song about long hair ever written. Entitled simply "Hair", it debuted in the 1968 Broadway show of the same title. In 1979, director Milos Forman made a movie musical of the show starring John Savage, Treat Williams, and Bevery D'Angelo. The Cowsills were an family pop group from Newport, Rhode Island, credited with inspiring "The Partridge Family" TV show. Their version of "Hair" not only the best known, but it is the best rendition, IMHO. It was released by MGM Records (MGM 14026)and reached #2 on Billboard's charts in 1969
Those of us over 40 will enjoy a trip down memory lane, and those who don't remember the song will have a blast hearing it for the first time!
This link will expire in one week and is good for 100 downloads.
Happy Listening!
Stormy
I dont think I can thank you enough for posting this song. This is my music!!!! Even though I'm going to be 22 in a month, I only listen to music that was made between 1945 and 1981.
If I had my duthers, I would have much preferred to have been born in 1946 so I could have lived through the 60's and remembered the 70's.
Maybe if I wish hard enough it will come true ;)
peace
clayton
Are you sure you're not my long lost twin?
Stormy
your physical body and your inner being exist in 2 different time frames. Statements such as yours get me to thinking about reincarnation.
Absalom
Just get a Delorian and get the speed up to 88 mph.....
Or get Quentin to build you a staircase in time.....
There were lots of great songs about hair. Hair by the Cowsills/Come Together by the Beatles/I almost cut my hair
by Crosby Stills Nash and Young/Signs by the five man electical
band just to name a few.
by far, the best version of "Hair" ever. Thank you so much. I was 16 years old when this song rose to the top of the charts.
Stormy, do you live in the SF bay area? We have long hair meets from time to time. We had one last year in Golden Gate Park.
Long hair forever.
Absalom
A thousand "you're welcomes", Absalom, glad you enjoyed it. I live in the San Diego area and don't get up to SF very often, but maybe with a longhair get-together as an incentive, who knows...
Stormy
POST MORE, QUICK!!
LOL
I love music exibiting how stupidly good and wonderfull is to have long hair... Geesh, it's AWESOME!!
THANK YOU!! =D =D =D *sits and waits for more =P*
LoL, your posts are always so invigorating, I love reading them, haha
Island, credited with inspiring "The Partridge Family" TV show.
I live in RI and I had forgotten that the Cowsills (funny name)
had come from Newport.
Thanks for the music.
Yyyyyeeesssss, Stormy!
Thank you for posting this! Why, I was eleven in 1969 when I was so mesmerised by the soundtrack to, "HAIR: The First American Tribal Love-Rock Musical", that I memorized the whole songbook! And I still remember the lyrics! I kid you not! Even now at the tender age of fifty!
Then, that same year, twelve years old and in the seventh grade, my 'rents took my three-years-older brother, Rob, and I to actually SEE a performance in NYC at the Biltmore Theatre. Dinner at Mama Leoni's. Incense, a Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolfman poster, and rolling papers for when I was old enough (!) three and a half years later, Isaac Bonewits' witchcraft treatise, "Real Magic!", and a black light all from a touristy Times Square gift shoppe.
Whoa. That was, like, the scandal of the neighbourhood. Ya'd've thought that we'd gone to see, "Oh, Calcutta!" instead!
Yeah, Stormy, man, I really appreciate your post. There're STILL some "HAIR" fan groups around. They even have an occasional live Be-In, too! I'm sure ya can find 'em doin' some surfin' here and there on the net!
Yours in longhaired camaraderie,
Quenyan (+;-)}
Hi Stormy!I just listened to the song and think its awesome.Even though I'm 45 I don't ever remember hearing it back in the late 60s.Of course I was only aroung 8 yrs.old at the time!LOL. Regardless I just downloaded it to my I Tunes library for future ipod use!Actually I wasn't sure if that song would download to my mac due to format issues so I was pleasantly surprised.Mark
So great, in fact, that I can't wait for the next song! This will be a fun thing to look forward to each week! Stormy, you rock!
Thanks very much, Stormy!! I love the musical and the song is probably the best there is for hair!