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Various Hair (The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical) Mp3, Flac, Wma Various Hair (The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical) mp3, flac, wma DOWNLOAD LINKS (Clickable) Genre: Rock / Stage & Screen Album: Hair (The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical) Country: US Style: Musical, Psychedelic Rock MP3 version RAR size: 1846 mb FLAC version RAR size: 1789 mb WMA version RAR size: 1774 mb Rating: 4.9 Votes: 120 Other Formats: DMF AUD VOX VQF FLAC MMF AA Tracklist A1 –Ronald Dyson* And Company* Aquarius 2:55 – Donna; Hashish (2:45) A2a –Gerome Ragni And Company* Donna A2b –Company* Hashish A3 –Steve Curry And Company* Sodomy 0:50 A4 –Lamont Washington And Company* Colored Spade 1:10 A5 –James Rado And Company* Manchester England 1:20 – I'm Black; Ain't Got No (1:10) A6a –Washington*, Curry*, Ragni* And Rado* I'm Black A6b –Curry*, Washington*, Melba Moore, Company* Ain't Got No –Sally Eaton - Shelley Plimpton - Moore* & A7 Air 1:15 Company* A8 –Company* Initials 0:55 A9 –Rado* And Company* I Got Life 3:05 A10 –Rado*, Ragni* And Company* Hair 2:55 A11 –Jonathan Kramer My Conviction 1:36 A12 –Ragni* And Curry* Don't Put It Down 2:00 A13 –Plimpton* Frank Mills 2:05 A14 –Company* Be-In 3:00 B1 –Rado* And Company* Where Do I Go? 2:40 – Black Boys; White Boys (3:35) –Diane Keaton, Suzannah Norstrand And Natalie B2a Black Boys Mosco B2b –Moore*, Mary Davis* And Emmaretta Marks White Boys B3 –Lynn Kellogg Easy To Be Hard 2:35 B4 –Company* Walking In Space 5:00 B5 –Washington*, Dyson*, Donnie Burks And Davis* Abie Baby 2:45 – Three-Five-Zero-Zero; What A Piece Of Work Is Man (4:45) B6a –Company* Three-Five-Zero-Zero B6b –Dyson* And Walter Harris What A Piece Of Work Is Man B7 –Kellogg*, Moore*, Rado* And Ragni* Good Morning Starshine 2:30 The Flesh Failures (Let The B8 –Rado*, Kellogg*, Moore* And Company* 3:35 Sunshine In) Companies, etc. Copyright (c) – RCA Recorded At – RCA's Studio B Mastered At – RCA Recording Studios Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Hollywood Credits Choreography [Dance Director] – Julie Arenal Conductor – Galt MacDermot Cover – Rúspoli-Rodríguez Cover [Colour By] – Bishop Directed By – Galt Mac Dermot*, Tom O'Horgan Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Mike Moran Executive-Producer – Bertrand Castelli Featuring [And] – Donnie Burks, Hiram Keller, Lorri Davis*, Marjorie LiPari, Natalie Mosco, Robert I. Rubinsky, Suzannah Norstrand Featuring [With] – Diane Keaton, Emmaretta Marks, Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Jonathan Kramer , Lamont Washington, Leata Galloway, Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore, Paul Jabara, Ronald Dyson*, Sally Eaton, Shelley Plimpton, Steve Curry, Steve Gamet, Walter Harris Leader [Musical Director] – Galt MacDermot Lighting – Jules Fisher Liner Notes – Nat Shapiro Music By – Galt Mac Dermot* Other [Book], Lyrics By – Gerome Ragni, James Rado Other [Costumes By] – Nancy Potts Producer – Andy Wiswell Set Designer [Scenery By] – Robin Wagner Sound Designer [Sound By] – Robert Kiernan Technician [Sound] – Robert Kiernan Notes Full title on cover: Michael Butler' presents HAIR The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical The Original Broadway Cast Recording All the songs on this album have been recorded complete and unexpurgated as they are performed on the Broadway stage. Dynagroove Recording Also available: Mono LOC-1150 © 1968, RCA, New York, N.Y. Printed in U.S.A. Made in U.S.A. sleeve: LSO-1150 labels: LSO 1150 Label and sleeve variations exist. This release is Hollywood Pressing (H), with Jacket Mfg. Plant code , bottom, back of sleeve. Orange labels with deep-groove press ring would be 1968-69 repress. Credits are shown as they appear on sleeve. Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Side 1 Label): WPRS-3962 Matrix / Runout (Side 2 Label): WPRS-3963 Matrix / Runout (Stamped, Side 1 (B etched)): WPRS-3962-18S B H Matrix / Runout (Stamped, Side 2): WPRS-3963-13S H Rights Society: ASCAP Other (Jacket Mfg. Plant #): 3 Other (Inner sleeve): RCA 21-112-1-43 I Other versions Title Category Artist Label Category Country Year (Format) Hair - The American Tribal Love- Rock Musical LSO-1150, LSO RCA Victor, RCA LSO-1150, LSO Various (The Original US 1968 1150 Victor 1150 Broadway Cast Recording) (LP, Album, Ind) Hair - The Original Deutscher SBR 1281-C, H SBR 1281-C, H Various Broadway Cast Schallplattenclub, Germany Unknown 272/7 272/7 Recording (LP, RCA Victor Album, Club) Hair - The Original LSO-1150 Various Broadway Cast RCA Victor LSO-1150 Germany Unknown Recording (LP, Album, RE) Hair - The American Tribal Love- Rock Musical (Broadway RCA Victor, BMG 82876-56085-2 Various 82876-56085-2 US 2003 Deluxe Music Collectors Edition) (2xCD, Album, RM) Hair - The Original American MC 252073 Broadway Tribal Love- Duchesse MC 252073 Europe 1990 Cast* Rock Musical (Cass, Album) Related Music albums to Hair (The American Tribal Love- Rock Musical) by Various Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado - Hair - The Musical (1993 Original London Cast Recording) bad company - Various - Hair - The Original Broadway Cast Recording Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Galt McDermot - Hair: The American Tribal Love Rock Musical Various - Hair - The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical - The Original Broadway Cast Recording The Company - The Company Ragni - Rado - MacDermot - DisinHAIRited John McLaren, Reddy , Sue Kramer - Hair Various - Hair - The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (The Original Broadway Cast Recording) Papudinho - Pap's Modern Sound.
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