I was a bit surprised when I discovered that the theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday was sex. I thought that would be a tough one for me to participate in as I didn’t think I knew any songs about sex, but that belief quickly turned out to be wrong.
Yesterday, I posted two songs about hair, my own (Sixty-eight Years of Hair) and a reblog of my son’s (Nearly Forty-two Years of Hair.) My friend Kathie from ChosenPerspectives used a video clip from Hair in her comment to my post. The songs from that musical are an important part of my history and I love them. I had no doubt I could find a song fitting for this week’s challenge in that play.
Hair: the American Tribal Love-Rock is a musical about the 1960’s hippie counterculture and sexual revolution. It was controversial for it’s depiction of drug use, irreverence for the American flag, profane language, racially integrated cast and ending nude scene. It opened off-Broadway in 1967 and on-Broadway in 1969. That version ran for 1750 performances. There have been many other productions of the Hair musical in the U.S. and Europe since then.
I attended the Atlanta International Pop Festival in 1970 and the cast from Hair performed there. I also thoroughly enjoyed watching a production of Hair with a friend in Seattle 8-10 years ago. I had forgotten about the nude scene at the end so that was quite a surprise!
The songs I have chosen for this Song Lyric Sunday are Black Boys and White Boys.
Living, Learning and Letting Go 
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I forgot all about this song. Oh man, I wonder what the Deep South was thinking when Hair came out???
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I have a good idea. It was 1969 when Hair started on Broadway and it was 1970 when I went to the Atlanta International Pop Festival and also spent the summer doing migrant farm labor work,, more than half in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
When we went to other parts of Georgia to work after going to the festival we heard stories of how the hippies had stripped naked in the car washes to take a shower and all sorts of other outrageous behaviors. I wrote that in Ft. Valley I thought we would have been escorted out of town if the Farm Labor office knew we had been to the festival.
I didn’t believe the things they said about the hippies behavior although I suppose there could have been truth in some of the reports. When we were at the festival, we were aware there were people taking drugs but everyone seemed very nice and respectful of each other.
That summer there were times in the deep South when we were treated like prostitutes. Why else would white girls be doing that kind of work?
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I love it! I just might have to check out the whole production. 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing them! I’m happy you were able to think of something. 😉
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I ended up listening to all of the songs from Hair today!
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Nice! That sounds like fun! 😊
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