‘Hair’ (1979) film, with Don Dacus, Treat Williams, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright (Young Riverdale fans can ask their grandparents about 1969’s top song, the Archies’ “Sugar, Sugar.”) The Cowsills’ “Hair,” Three Dog Night’s “Easy to Be Hard” and Oliver’s “Good Morning Starshire” all hit the national Top 5. 1 pop hit for six weeks in 1969 and was the No.
The Fifth Dimension’s medley of “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” was the country’s No. (A 2009 Broadway revival directed by Diane Paulus won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical.) The disc later was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Hair was nominated for the Best Musical Tony Award in 1969 - it lost to 1776 - and its cast album spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard 200, winning the Grammy for Best Cast Album, and spawned four smash singles. The musical contributed a number of songs that would become radio hits (often in cover versions) and stage musical standards: “Aquarius,” “Let the Sunshine In,” “Hair,” “Ain’t Got No/I Got Life,” “Good Morning Starshine,” “Easy to Be Hard,” among others. Subtitled “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” Hair, which began life in 1967 at New York’s then-new Public Theater Off Broadway, was not only the first Broadway musical to prominently feature nudity, but was a hugely influential insertion of a ’60s counterculture sensibility into Broadway’s mainstream - it was banned in many cities and spurred many lawsuits.
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