Australian Charts:
Hair entered the Kent chart on 26 April 1969 and was a #1 hit. The song was #9 on the Top 100 of 1969.
Songwriter:
Galt MacDermot
Wikipedia:
Hair is the title song to the 1967 musical Hair and the 1979 film adaptation of the musical. A version by The Cowsills in 1969 was their most successful single.
The Cowsills version cuts out most of the religion-themed lyrics, changing “long as God can grow it” to “long as I can grow it” and removing some verses.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_(Hair_song)
This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 60s
Also on Bang a Gong: HAIR by Doug Parkinson in Focus
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