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May 17, 1969
Record World Magazine
Three Records from 'Hair' Reach No. I: Cast LP, 5th Dimension, Cowsills; With Score Published by UA Music.
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Money Music
Very Hottest Selling Records: Cowsills
The next Cowsills is "The Prophecy"
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Juke Box Top 25
#1 Hair Cowsills - MGM 14026
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Top Pops
#1 Hair Cowsills - MGM 14026
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Cover Names
At top, Norman Racusin, VP -
General Manager, RCA; "Hair"
librettists -lyricists James
Rado, Gerome Ragni; the Fifth
Dimension, producer Bones
Howe, Soul City's National
Sales and Promotion Director
Macey Lipman; the Cowsills,
Lenny Scheer, MGM Records
Director of Marketing; Benjamin
Melniker, Exec VP, MGM,
Inc.; Tom White, Director of
Business Affairs, MGM Records;
Louis Polk, President of
MGM, Inc.; Sy Lesser, President
of MGM Records; Mike
Stewart, President of the UA
Music Companies, and Murray
Deutch, Exec VP, UA Music
Companies.
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'Hair' Today - And 100 years From Now, Too
. . .
Overseas, too; as Murray
Deutch, Executive Vice President
of UA Music, pointed out
in the joint interview. "It opens
in France on May 26; and the
records have been going great
around the world. Nina Simone
had a big single from the score
in England, and the London
cast album is on the charts. A
group called Zen in Holland
was No. 1 for six weeks with
'Aquarius,' which was almost
unprecedented for a local
group. Now with the Cowsills
and the Fifth Dimension being
released around the world .. ."
. . .
Stewart and Deutch remarked
that they were expecting
some symphony orchestra recordings
of the score before
long, as well as disks by jazz,
Latin American, R&B, baroque
and even Country and Western
waxings. "It's a total breakthrough,
which is the way it
should be with great music,"
noted Deutch. "The Fifth
Dimension single medley of
'Aquarius' and 'Let the Sunshine
In' and the Cowsills'
'Hair' should do more than five
million, without LPs."
. . .
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`Hair' Discography to Date
United States:
Cowsills MGM
England:
Cowsills MGM
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Rubin on 'Hair
. . .
"I think that Bob Crewe, Al
Bell, who cut Carla Thomas On
`Easy to Be Hard,' Nina Simone
and Bones Howe deserve credit
for having the foresight to cut
the songs from the show. And
you might add Bill and Bob
Cowsill."
Crewe cut Eddie Hazelton on
"Good Morning Starshine" for
his Dynovoice label a number
of months ago, and he's just
released a new Jubilee version
of the song by Oliver. Nina
Simone cut "Ain't Got No" and
"I Got Life" for RCA. Bones
Howe produced the Fifth
Dimension's "Aquarius/Let the
Sun Shine In," for Soul City.
The Cowsill boys produced the
Cowsills' hit version of the
"Hair" title tune for MGM.
. . .
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'Hair' Package
NEW YORK - To celebrate
and publicize "Hair" 's first
birthday on Broadway, public
relations firm Gifford Wallace,
Inc., recently sent out a press
package containing the RCA
and Atco cast recordings, plus
single versions of songs from
the show by the Fifth Dimension,
Barbra Streisand, the
Cowsills, Carla Thomas, Jennifer,
Lynn Kellogg, Caterina Valente
and Edmundo Ros, Nina
Simone, Phyllis Newman and
James Rado and Gerome Ragni.
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Top LPs
#57 Cowsills In Concert MGM SE 4619
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One Stop Top Ten
ALL BRANDS (Pittsburgh)
4. Hair (Cowsills)
BELMONT ONE STOP (Montclair, N.J.)
1. Hair (Cowsills)
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