Grammys 1969: Performance from "Hair"

[hadrons]

Run time: 03:33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxSGikrhrnI   Posted on YouTube: August 02, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 02, 2008 By DU Member: hadrons Views on DU: 1819

 
The original cast of the LA production of Hair perform as it originally staged at the 1969 Grammy Awards. The songs are Aquarius and Flesh Failures

The footage is transferred from 16mm, so that explains the grainyness of it (it actually had the original commercials, but they were all lame Timex ones - the sole sponser of the broadcast.)

Since the show is going thru bit of a revivial here in NY and people do seem to be tuning in more to its anti-war message.

Tommy Smothers gives the intro.

[proud patriot]

1. I'm a love child born in 1969 in San Francisco

this explains a lot .. LOL just kidding .

Thanks for sharing a Grammy performance from the year I was born

[shadowknows69]

26. I was born somewhere in 1969

They tell me Watertown but I'm adopted so there's no real proof it wasn't San Francisco. Certainly seemed familiar when I visited there. B-)

[Systematic Chaos]

28. New Brunswick, NJ in 1969 here

To parents who were born in the twenties.

[zeemike]

2. Thanks so much for bringing that to us

I only have dial up but I took the time to watch it anyway. It brought back a flood of memories.
And just look at Tommy Smothers...we were so young then and so full of hope...Had anyone suggested to us that we would spend our declining years in a situation worse than the Vet Nam era we would have thought them crazy...but here we are.
And the young probably don't realize what a shock it was for many to see a white person standing on a stage with there arms around a black person...only the Hippies had the nerve to do such a thing and it freaked some people out.
I hope they do bring it back to the stage or even a movie because Hair was about hope for a better future.

[1monster]

3. Always one of my favorites from Hair: Hair...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFy-yzj02FE

The Cowsills version.

RIP Barry Cowsill http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/9117582/cowsill_found_dead_in_no

[zeemike]

6. Well now you have done it

Caused me to take 30 to 40 minuets to watch a three minuet video on dial up
But it was worth it...I love this version of the song.

[1monster]

15. I'd say sorry, but you're right. It is worth it!

Before I got DSL, I'd let the video download while I read DU.

[Voice for Peace]

20. an aside.. i only switched to dsl a few months back. i had put it off for years.

it was so easy, simple to make the change. can't believe i waited so long. faster access is worth the small extra cost.

[gateley]

4. Man, those were the days.

I'm glad I was alive and participating - it was magical.

[annabanana]

5. Brings tears to my eyes....

We WERE right dammit. And it all seemed not only possible then, but inevitable. And my my we did all party together....

[Patchuli]

22. We were right, we are right and

YES!! we CAN!! OBAMA '08!

[Cirque du So-What]

7. Gladly recommended

I saw Hair in 1971, during its original run on Broadway. Forty years hence, the message is no less important.

[Celebration]

12. yup me too!!

It was so fun. The dude that played the lead was really intriguing--skinny, pasty complexioned person who was still able to swing on ropes on the show, and showed the greatest energy. He had a red curly wig. The whole show was about energy. The nude scene: that made the headlines but was basically all about any cast member tossing their shirts if they wanted to, or keeping them on. I kept thinking how much fun it would be to perform in that show!

[helderheid]

8. I am wiping tears from my eyes, and this was 6 years preceeding my birth...

I LOVED Hair growing up. My mother had seen it when they came to LA. I at least had the movie and the soundtrack. I remember growing up thinking how I wish I had a movement so strong to be a part of and what an amazing time that must have been. Oh, dear GOD do I wish I'd never thought that way. How ignorant was I.

:cry:

:grouphug:

[elleng]

9. THANKS!

GREAT to see it again!

'bit of a revival here in NY?' Please explain!

[hadrons]

10. Its playing on Summerstage in Central Park

[saged52]

11. sweet flashback -

and an important one - thank you so much!

[Sancho]

13. I was in HS when this was popular, and my parents hated me playing it...

but I was A1 in the Vietnam draft and trying everything that I could to protest the war.

Thanks for the memories and great music!


:headbang:

[C_U_L8R]

14. good gravy they are belting it out !

I was the little brother of hippies... jealous that I wasn't allowed go to Woodstock at 8 years old.
I would play the Hair soundtrack over and over and over and over.

[Voice for Peace]

16. What happened at that time was a wave, a big one. It receded, as waves do

but I think another one is coming, a bigger one; and if that one recedes, an even bigger one will follow. Until all the cheat and deceit is swept out to sea.

[Bob Dobbs]

18. You are correct, sir.

The pendulum swings.

[unapatriciated]

17. I saw Hair in 1968-in Los Angeles......

I was barely 16 and didn't tell my very Catholic parents about it until I was in my forties.

That is when I started attending protest too.

I'm just an old :hippie: and I'm still protesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqirXBOMWfk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCutvXccFlA

[RufusTFirefly]

19. I (heart) Jennifer Warnes

Sure, she sang schlocky themes for marginal movies, but she also sang backup for the amazing Leonard Cohen and produced one of my all-time favorite albums/CDs Famous Blue Raincoat as well as her more recent (but still excellent) The Well. In addition, her rendition of "It Goes Like It Goes" (I had originally -- and incorrectly -- called it "Bless the Child of the Working Man") from the unapologetically pro-labor Norma Rae is heart-breakingly beautiful.

Trivia buffs may be interested to know that Warnes became a regular on the Smothers Brothers show the same year as this broadcast (not clear on the chronology) and that future Woody Allen muse Diane Keaton appears in this video, about 2:49 into the clip.

[Stardust]

23. Is that Jennifer Warnes with the blonde hair? She didn't really sound like her

to me, but had all the passion I would expect from her. If had to choose my all-time favorite albums, "Famous Blue Raincoat" would be high on the top ten.

I once knew someone who performed in "Hair" in NYC. I can't imagine a more fulfilling role. The lyrics to the songs on "Hair" and the underlying message were really quite profound.

[RufusTFirefly]

24. Yes, I'm pretty certain that's Warnes

known as "Jennifer Warren" or just "Jennifer" back then.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

21. Oh, say can you see

my eyes....if you can, then my hair's too long. I saw "Hair" in NYC 100 years ago, so this was a great memory. My God, don't they have teriffic voices?

Thanks for posting.

[demwing]

25. OMG - I have just fallen for a woman that does not really exist!

Based on a voice that breaks out from a 40 year old black and white television clip, and lasts less than 4 minutes total.

She does not speak, but my god she sings!

That 21 year old hippie girl is now a 61 woman. They look nothing alike. They probably are nothing alike. But I watch that clip, and in that moment, I believe that THERE was the woman of my dreams. Separated by time, cultures, and realities. She does not really exist. I know that, and my heart breaks, but I'm smiling.

20 minutes later, I feel a bit out-of-sync, and a little foolish, and 100% at peace with those feelings.

What a ride...

This is exactly why I love great music. It creates intense emotional states, and affects my soul in ways that, for me, no other art form can duplicate. The next time I listen to "Up where we belong" I'll have a different opinion of Jennifer Warrens/Warnes.

[shadowknows69]

27. Thanks for posting this

The movie version of this influenced my life in ways my mother hates to think about lol.

[helderheid]

29. It did me too. My mother keeps saying, "It was NOTHING compared to the Broadway version." Spoiled.

:)

[Honeycombe8]

30. Wow. That was a trip down Memory Lane. Where are the talented young people like

those nowadays? Britney Spears? Hip-hoppers? All things change, I guess.

It'd take a draft to bring out the seriousness of our young folks, again.

I was a teenager then, so a bit young. And there was pomposity and holier-than-thou-ness, for sure. But the youth just seemed to be more aware of their world, more serious about consequences of actions, less self-involved. Or maybe it's just my vantage point. But it seems it's still the same ones, who are now middle aged, who are making waves and bucking the tradition. Maybe it was a once in a century phenomenon...that '60s generation.

Beverly D'Angelo was in the stage version of Hair. She was a beauty then. Still is. That was a great soundtrack, but I never saw the show.

Thanks for the trip.