Australian singles chart:
Hair entered the Kent charts on 26 April 1969 and peaked at #1. The song was #9 on the Top 100 of 1969.
Songwriters:
Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni
Producers:
Bob Cowsill, Bill Cowsill
Record label of Australian release:
MGM
BONUS CLIP BELOW – Bob Cowsill talks about Hair
Wikipedia:
This is the title song to the 1967 musical Hair and the 1979 film adaptation of the musical. It reflects the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
The song Hair was a major hit for the Cowsills in 1969 and 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.
Hair was also covered in Australia in 1969 by Doug Parkinson in Focus.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_(Hair_song)
Lyrics:
She asked him why
Why I′m a hairy guy
I’m hairy noon and nighty-night night
My hair is a fright
I′m hairy high and low
But don’t ask me why
‘Cause he don′t know
It′s not for lack of bread
Like the Grateful Dead, darlin’
Gimme a head with hair
Long, beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming
Streaming, flaxen, waxen
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This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 60s
Also on Bang a Gong: Hair by Doug Parkinson in Focus
Bob Cowsill talks Hair:
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