"Hair" Original Broadway Cast | Let The Sunshine In | Live 1968

[@anterlopic1]

This is really chilling. Brought back so many memories. I was at Woodstock. After the rain a helicopter flew over us. Many thought we were going to be gunned down. Instead they tossed thousands of dandelions down on the crowd. People screamed. Some fell to their knees and called out their names. And as if on a magical cue everyone began to sing Let The Shine. It was a baptismal moment. Watching this just now brought it all back.

[@RSimoes10]

thanks for sharing this Woodstock story.

[@fiatkallesdotter]

Wow, just wow! What an amazing and epic moment that must have been ❤ Im jealous of course but also very happy for you 😉 I've always wished I was born a generation earlier 🙌 (but well, I got to experience the 'grunge-era' instead and Im quite happy with that🤘)

[@marthafischler8408]

as we used to say back then, Oh Wow! Heavy...❤

[@Deejaay83urj38]

How incredible

[@moiralauten6924]

thats wonderful -I was there too, but I missed that beautiful magical event

[@briteness]

This is an amazing clip. Hair seems like it was on the cutting edge at the time. The juxtaposition of Ed Sullivan with the amazing original Broadway cast underlines that. But also consider the timing. Hair opened on Broadway in April, 1968, well over a year before Woodstock. But it opened Off-Broadway in October, 1967, right after the so-called Summer of Love. And Ragni and Rado started writing it all the way back in 1964. I feel like they really caught the emerging zeitgeist and actually helped to make it a widespread reality. Often when theater or movies or TV deal with current events and fashions, they are just a little behind the front lines, but Hair was right there pushing things forward.

[@shaggynwhitt6672]

67 was the Summer of love, can't figure why so many people now think it was 68 or 69.plus still best version of the play as all are real hippies and some real flower children ✌️

[@sokar_rostau]

The interesting thing about the timeline is that during the 1967 off-Broadway season a new song was added. Initials explicitly linked the CIA with LSD in a smash-hit Broadway play, years before the CIA's connections with LSD were made public.

[@Sara-ny5od]

@@shaggynwhitt6672 I totally agree with you, that this is the best version of HAIR and because the cast were real hippies which makes it all more authentic and original - Peace S

[@shaggynwhitt6672]

@@Sara-ny5od ☮️✌️

[@Acujeremy]

It's very interesting watching this clip from 1968 because it seems un-ironic and quite serious, something I didn't catch from the modern day performances which is much more light hearted and fun. Now I get it, it is a serious protest for the times.

[@waypylant1]

I was in Viet Nam in 1968 so this Anti-War musical means a lot to me. I just saw a production of the play at The Bay Street Players in Eustis, Fla. this past weekend. Great memories and "Let the Sunshine In" brought me to tears as it always has.

[@susanborkenhagen58]

RIP Kim Milford. He's the actor playing Claud and was only 17. He died from a heart condition at 37. He was also in the Original Rocky Horror and had a band.

[@branevans3705]

That woman singing at the start-OMG what an amazing voice 😮

[@leilahschou6257]

Who was that?

[@jeffcubeta]

@@leilahschou6257 Melba Moore, I think.

[@tqnohe]

I knew Mildred when we were in high school together. Mostly in passing. Near the end of that school year, she and my sister had tickets to Hair at the theater in Baltimore. My sister’s boyfriend was supposed to go with them as their driver. But they broke up. 😢 So that asked me to drive. During intermission, my sister went to the ladies room. It was then that Mildred and I , how shall I say this?, hit it off. We married two years later. We have been married for 50 years. Hair is special to us.

[@chiedu90069]

The final image of Ed Sullivan smiling with beads and flowers gives me life! As usual, he knew that a major cultural shift had happened even if the audience didn't.

[@edricawebb1578]

True, the old guy had a keen eye for the next big thing... had Elvis on very early.

[@frankiebowie6174]

@@edricawebb1578 And a scruffy little flash-in-the-pan boy band from Liverpool!

[@pamelaprestegard1377]

You SAID it‼️✌🏼☮️🌺🌻

[@iHeartsNostalgiaPit]

@@edricawebb1578 even though he didn't initially want to but he did

[@pamelaprestegard1377]

Talk about memories....I auditioned for "HAIR" in San Francisco....a bit late in progress‼️Tommy Smothers was on the short panel of judges. Told me that I had a great voice but I was "too legitimate" theatre. They were looking for street people. I sang "Don't Rain on my Parade" 🙄from Funny Girl...and dressed straight as an arrow!! WTH was I thinking?!🤷🏻‍♀️Went back a few says later wearing a great DISGUISE. He walked right past me in the hallway and I quickly pulled up the newspaper I was reading. I donned an Afro wig, a Daishiki and decorated bell bottom jeans‼️🤣😂Still a no❤️‍🩹...as main cast had long been chosen, but saw the play 13 times with different cast members (rarely had to pay.) Dated a cast member!!🎭

[@queenbeedat8726]

What a beautiful memory. Thank you for sharing it. ❤

[@UncleDuTheWatchman]

Listen..."Let The Sunshine In" is the most life-filled song in Broadway history.

[@branevans3705]

This brought me to tears. Reminds me of an age where there was a promise and a dream of an inclusive society. I was a little 13 year old hippie lol

[@gpapadatosmd]

So true

[@J.B24]

It has to be a surreal experience to be in a musical about the very period you're living in.

[@black_sheep_nation]

I knew Jerry Ragni as a teenager. A tortured, brilliant - no - genius, Magoo who changed my life. If he was my age today, HAIR wouldn't have come into being. The space for this kind of creativity doesn't exist anymore. Hell, it barely existed in his time. Making your own statement, your own mark, will always be made in the streets of society. Not here, in the virtual world.

[@tarawolf1356]

the lyrics "facing a dying nation" hit my heart....

[@CharloCrossley]

Been thinking about this portion of that powerful anthem…Flesh Failures 🌼🌼🌻🌻

[@sbarr10]

Wow, what a kick. Even straight-faced Ed Sullivan was laughing when they draped the love beads on him and gave him flowers.

[@Chicagoan444]

The best part of this just may be seeing Ed Sullivan with a necklace and flowers. He actually looked like he enjoyed it.

[@cyndymartinez589]

I was a hopeful hippie back & still am but the Age of Aquarius never did come. Our hope of a peaceful world never materialized. Sad our country has gotten so dangerous instead.✌🏼

[@malenamartinez6608]

Utopía. La utopía del siglo XX

[@stephencarter7266]

Why do you think that happened?

[@lauramilagros5472]

8/16/24 I was too. Those were awesome days. If felon Chump Trump is re-elected ... THERE IS NO HOPE FOR ANYTHING RESEMBLING THE AGE OF AQUARIUS.

[@G-B31]

That is the fabulous Melba Moore singing harmony with Lynn Kellogg on The Flesh Failures.

[@animerlon]

OMG, i just flashed back over 50 years. Back in the day, this turned me into a card carrying hippie. 😆 I had the album & knew every word to every song.

[@captebbtide]

Whatever happened to this "Age of Aquarius"? We need to let the sunshine in now, more than ever before. When will we ever learn?

[@eargasm1072]

Unfortunately, it seems never...love is the answer. Not religion, $$$ or power!

[@captebbtide]

@@eargasm1072 Right. Well said!

[@CharloCrossley]

This show changed my life forever! This message rings true right this very moment !! 🌺🌸🌟🌺🌟💟🎵☮️

[@scottroby4180]

Ed's face at the end ... his smile ... he was really enjoying the performance and his face told all.

[@HanikSheli]

Words cannot describe how good this is. Goodbumps allover. Unlike the movie this was real time, defining this unique era is it happened. Voices from heaven, contagious enthusiasm and immortal songs. Thanks for uploading this!! 🙏🙏🙏

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

True. The movie was probematic on many levels, but Treat Wiiliams (1951-2023) still did a good job.

[@rebeccaperkins2605]

Why was the movie problematic? Genuinely want to to know. I wasn't alive for the play or the movie's release.

[@cheriecolberry6228]

amazing solo opening voice

[@ohnezuckerzusatz]

well said ❤

[@cherrymelow]

wow! this was over two decades before i was even born but somehow it still brings me a feeling of chilling nostalgia i can't even explain, it's so weird. i just love it so much

[@BTURNER1961]

You can feel it when the cast goes into the crowd. This rather conservative audience, more used to Ethel Merman and Alfred Drake than Jimi Hendrix, is shell shocked, amused, and wondering if Ed has gone off the deep end for booking this Broadway musical 'interlude'

[@michaelbrooke6326]

Ed Sullivan show had The Rolling Stones, Elvis, Beatles, lots of groups that were popular at the time, your reading way too much in the audience reactions

[@julioalbertoherrera1339]

​@@michaelbrooke6326 The Doors 🚪🦎🎸🎹🥁

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

Actually Ed Sullivan had all the groundbreaking acts in addition to the "granny acts" as John L. would call them

[@skipwaldent8465]

The Original ! Wow ! This clip is priceless history !

[@lindsay8670]

I cannot tell you just how grateful I am for you! I have been searching for this video, FOREVER. My Mother was part of this very cast shown in this video. She has this very same video, but it is on a VHS tape. We no longer have a VHS player, so we have been unable to view it at home. In addition, we have been super scared to possibly transfer the VHS to DVD, in fear of destroying the actual VHS tape itself. Thank you again for uploading this "Ed Sullivan Show" video!

[@AutismThespian1993]

I know !! Also ,so cool that your mom was in the cast!!! The show changed my life (I saw the revival in 2011). It feels like I am watching a bit of history that is still fresh!!

[@barbaraliebgott1446]

What is your mom’s name? I was (and still am) a huge fan of HAIR.

[@crumdoggy]

Perhaps the Ed Sullivan KZbin channel can upload a better copy? They have some excellent quality color video from the same era.

[@MBproduction100]

@@crumdoggy kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHS7hHSVl86GrZY&ab_channel=TheEdSullivanShow

[@Struwwelpeter]

@@crumdoggy Now they did! Take a look over there ;)

[@karenlipman7545]

Wow I grew up to this with my mum dancing round the living room to this. What a gem.😊

[@annwigmoreinstitute4985]

we need to bring the sixties generation back today more than anything

[@doalaboo7090]

Theres fewer of us every day. Im still living in the 60s. Remembering my dad pound my bedroom door hollerin turn that damm thang down ! Then hed throw the circuit breaker for my room. I miss that guy. We laughed bout that in later years

[@lauramilagros5472]

8/16/24 I'm still here with the same ideals, hopes &dreams for peace & true & genuine EQUALITY for all. "Imagine" ✌🏼☮️☯️

[@rnbrineg]

Holy crap, imagine being an average button down square and seeing THIS for the first time!!! 👀

[@08davey]

In 2009 the cast of the revival of Hair recreated this performance on Letterman. Letterman just put it up on his KZbin channel. 40 yrs later on the same Ed Sullivan theater stage.

[@AutismThespian1993]

So cool!! I watched it the day after it aired on the hair website!!!!!

[@christinaluna2055]

What a time to be alive

[@lauramilagros5472]

8/16/24 YES IT WAS!!! ✌🏼

[@viavivace]

This is goosebump-inducing amazing. Hard to believe these talented people whose voices and creativity documented and influenced are in their 70s and 80s. We need to be reminded of the themes of this groundbreaking musical. We need a Hair for today.

[@batya7]

Ed Sullivan with love beads, flowers and a huge grin!! Groovy!

[@WillLovesChris]

Hair premiered on Broadway when i was 1 month old. My parents, not hippies, were part of the "Greatest Generation." They had the original cast recording on frequently in their vinyl rotation. I know the music frontward and backward. An American classic and treasure!

[@keithbushey8149]

One of my favorite musicals. And this video is 50+ years old and is still relevant.

[@curlyjc]

That's the problem isn't it?

[@jaydock1]

Unfortunately i think it will always be relevant

[@hughdismuke4703]

The original production for stage and the film are the best versions of this performance.

[@EagleRockers]

Hair was a very big part of my teenage life. I will never forget it, ever! Thank you for this clip!

[@grandrapids57]

that cast was enjoying that 100%

[@shelleysr5952]

Absolutely phenomenal …even after all these years. I Can’t believe it’s the first time I’ve seen this.

[@ukulele-covergirl]

I miss the years of Broadway. ~ 🌺

[@AutismThespian1993]

I was looking for this clip for so long!!! History in the making. Hair will always be my fav musical!!

[@scottfowler7680]

Fantastic.

[@samikhalil5027]

I'm from europ and i have seen HAIR in1968 in Hollywood,it was SOMETHING! It still gives me goosepimples today. What a time this was. Thank You very much,LOVE and PEACE for all of YOU!

[@RSimoes10]

This is brilliant, fantastic performance. And Ed Sullivan's face in the end is priceless.

[@Mns-jn5qo]

Chilling!Gives me goosebumps. Wonderful music.

[@RigoLeons]

This what life looks like when it’s working.

[@ppl2luv]

those harmonies!!!

[@FortyNineHudson]

Ed smiling at the end like he just got dosed by Owsley. 😎

[@geraldmayerhofer5379]

great voice, the black woman!

[@cosmickilroy]

Thanks so much for sharing this beautiful piece of history

[@tony10518]

the first version is perfect ..... beautiful

[@branevans3705]

That woman’s voice gives me goose bumps. Just beautiful. BTW: now I know how the show “Cats” got their idea for that number they did where all the “cats” climbed down from scaffolding slowly.

[@robertmahaney9147]

@@ENIGIZERb I very much agree .

[@mako51x43]

(Let The Sunshine In) Has to be one of the most moving songs ever made. 5th Dimension got that off. Only thing the Broadway hit did was change the Bassline.

[@sharonelliott2366]

Do you understand that the song came from the musical? 5th Dimension did their thing later. Both experiences are spot on.

[@mako51x43]

@sharonelliott2366 Yes, I do know that. I guess I made it sound as if 5th Dimension did it. I was talking about the different Basslines.

[@larondeb782]

I remember going to see this in Gr. 11, our English teacher thought it was a good experience for us. It was! I will always remember the great time we had! 🥰

[@adrienneregnier7894]

The movie has only a bit of the energy, anger, joy... of the play. I saw the Broadway cast in Chicago. I wish someone would bring it back.

[@roxanna6987]

We need more of the original cast !! Thank you for this !!

[@laurabentzinger200]

Pretty cool got the squares to groove excellent!

[@streips]

My grandmother just adored Ed Sullivan and Lawrence Welk and all those shows.

[@user-cq8iw3tg8o]

Aqui no Brasil, Aquarius & Let the sun shine fizeram muito sucesso comThe fifty dimension e Johnny Mathis. Eu era moleque na época e gostava de ouvir pela melodia e pelo ritmo; só muito depois, com o filme, é que descobri do que se tratava...

[@jzcovers]

I saw this in 1968 as a kid. Unfortunately was too young to understand it but I loved the music. My mom got me the album not knowing the lyrics, and my older sister told me sing Sodomy in front of mom who said she would take the album away if sang it again. I had no idea what any of the lyrics meant except they were “bad words”.

[@grandrapids57]

ah... siblings, what a great story.

[@mitchellbaxter6314]

My parents had the album and I started listening to it when I was around eight. I didn’t know what the words meant, but I knew how to look them up in the dictionary. LOL

[@jzcovers]

@@mitchellbaxter6314 - I was 8 as well! I didn’t think to do that lol.😂

[@borntoclimb7116]

Very nice old Video. I love the song too.

[@MARIAMARTINS-dw5mx]

Essa foi a melhor época da humanidade, se acreditava num mundo de paz, de harmonia, onde não haveria fronteiras, nem guerras, doce ilusão

[@moiralauten6924]

Thank you so much for this !!

[@roxanna6987]

R.I.P James Rado

[@CharloCrossley]

🌸🌼🌞🌼🌸🌻🌼🌸❤️💟💜🎈💟🎈☮️🌺

[@ellenericksen]

Great play. Saw a revival two years ago. Brought back so many memories and it was just as good. Where are all these people from 1968 now?

[@groovygirl23]

What a glorious clip. Thank you

[@force263]

‘Hair’ the 1978 film of the play was a big movie on early cable tv…I always enjoyed the film, and I’ve been seeing clips and reading up on the original B’way cast and the general history of the play… From 2024, looking back, I find ‘Hair’ incredibly moving & touching. These 2 songs especially, and Treat Wiiiams’ death last year put a new spin on the cross-cutting at the end of the film version, as he takes Jon Savage’s place in Vietnam, and they gather round the grave… yeah, good stuff. Love seeing the passion of this original cast.

[@catherineerwin8269]

Simply beautiful, moving & filled with so many talented folks!

[@MRVISTA-wz7vj]

there's like 5 hits from this musical! underrated bc of it's iconic cultural status as ground breaking😮makes a great listen😊original Broadway soundtrack is wild😮🎉😂

[@Sunshine-zm1fx]

Wow, what a voice!

[@richardfamous6466]

Hair is the first musical I saw - in 1969. I love musical theater and have seen many shows but it remains my favorite. It has the best opening and closing songs, my favorite line - “oh my god your skin is soft, I love your face” - and my favorite musical moment - when the second female voice joins in on “facing a dying nation.” It’s interesting to see videos of the Flesh Failures from eastern from Eastern Europe. I’m amused when I hear “supreme wisions.” Check out the performance of the Flesh Failures on Bulgarian Idol, featuring one of the best singers in the world.

[@guttersnype00]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!

[@walterpaton8698]

The original cast. Amazt

[@eBrigid]

Wow. I wasn't prepared for the emotional impact of their voices. Very intense. Ahhh, the healing power of music. Ed Sullivan nearly grimaced when the number opened, I'm sure he was grimacing through the abstract beginning, nervous about those long hairs in front of a national audience, making it hilarious at the end when the hippies come bearing beaded necklaces for old Ed! The squares and the hippies, a true generation gap moment.

[@TheCSTERN]

Saw it at the Biltmore 5 times, loved it.

[@lesleyadams4279]

This is the best of versions.Thanks for this.

[@robertmelichercik5497]

That beat that beat is sunshine for my ears

[@kathlynking6969]

Wow, ahead of their time 🕑...tears ❤🎶💃🏽✨️✌🏽🧘🏾‍♀️💖🌬🌎. I forgot how powerful and tripy that was😮. Wasn't it the longest running Musical on Broadway, dang. People did so much work😢...why aren't we 🌬further along on this crazy dense planet 🌎. #Humans #Evolve already damnit!!!

[@boblonergan7583]

Saw “Hair” in Columbus, Ohio, it was great.

[@KarelMatousek]

Když tomu věří i účinkující. Hezké to je.

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

Treat Williams (1951-2023) 💜who starred in the very problematic film, here's the original with 1968 Broadway cast. 😎

[@virgilsolozzo3510]

jesus christ ...how beautiful the girls are !!?!?!?!

[@GregCurtin45]

That was amazing, thank you for sharing it with all of us. I have to wonder how many white Americans suddenly decided to cast their vote in fear for Richard Nixon after watching this? lol

[@Madam-ri8gs]

Ed Sullivan show was great.. watched it as a teen

[@SusanDoran]

This is great -- thanks for uploading. It's from the March 30, 1969 Ed Sullivan Show tho.

[@Madam-ri8gs]

Sang some of those songs in highschool.

[@cynthiarowley719]

Great live TV !! Thank you for sharing this moment again.

[@samiraelyousfi8489]

Magnifique ❤❤❤

[@matsudaseiko]

MOVING THIS IS ❤

[@ludovica8221]

The wonderful Bert Sommer in green tshirt at the back left

[@pinkydogbear]

Never saw this . Thanks

[@brt5273]

What a moment!

[@vanu49]

A Master Peace!!

[@CarmenCastro-ce2qk]

Believe it or not, I still have the original LP in my storage room but no LP player😢

[@Theo-mf3bd]

Omg 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@VitalyArtemov]

не забываемое !!!!!

[@Psychosoulcial]

Is that Melba Moore at the end? OMG I loved this show. Wish I was born during this time.

[@robertmahaney9147]

Yes it is .

[@maryk3458]

I have the original vinyl

[@Knapps62]

Wow😮.

[@salaama9]

The version of the flesh failures/let the sunshine in and also missing a key stanza.