Hair Off-Broadway album?

[WJR2]

Posted: 4/26/14 at 4:27pm

Hello!

I was in my local record store today and I found an off-broadway recording album of Hair. The one with the Native Americans on it... how rare is that recording? I can't find anything about it

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/26/14 at 4:45pm

Rarer than the OBC, but it was released on CD in a double-issue remastered set of the Off-Broadway and OBC casts.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/26/14 at 10:41pm

Dead End (especially this particular version) is one my favorites.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 4/29/14 at 3:10am

AS an Lp it was harder to ind. The original pressing (LSO 1143) seems o have been withdrawn after the Broadway cast album (LSO 1050) was released. The off-Broadway album was briefly reissued in RCA's budget series in the mid 1970's (as ANL1-0896) but that also seems to have had a short catalog life. The deluxe 2 CD set with both albums gives you a chance to hear it but I find the performances a little rough and some tempos really drag. The extra material (The Climax, The Bed, Dead End) is interesting to hear.