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”Hair” had two incarnations. The first off-Broadway version had a genuine plot, while the second Broadway version was more of a revue, with the plot playing second fiddle. It marked a major change in the American musical theater.
When the Broadway version opened, Gerome Ragni and James Rado, who were two of the three people behind the musical, came to Philadelphia, dropped in at my little college station, and I managed to tape an interview with them. Rado was a nice guy, but Ragni was put off by my ROTC uniform and acted like an asshole. Rado later apologized and said that Ragni always acted that way. When Ragni’s drug use killed him in 1976, I didn’t shed so much as a tear.
When the Fifth Dimension’s producers recorded “Aquarius”, they realized that it wasn’t enough for a record, so they coupled it with the finale from the musical, the chorus “Let the Sunshine In”.
Here is a bonus track. I regarded the coupling of the two songs as an artistic failure. In the musical, the final song, “The Flesh Failures”, leads into the chorus when you least expect it, and the sudden 8-part harmony is overwhelming. My hair, which I still had then, stood up when I saw this done live. The Fifth Dimension could never get close to the original.
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The Doobie Brothers~What A Fool Believes
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