Aquarius (songs from the Musical 'Hair')

Subject: Aquarius
From: Sheye
Date: 04 Jan 98 - 09:58 PM

Selene: Boy, the things you find when you go playing in the dark...

Almost left this on the Christmas down Under thread but it just didn't seem right.

Went surfing:

The song is by Hair, lyrics are at www.quartznet.com/higgins/aquarius.htm, sound bits (so they say, I can't "hear" with my computer (it's fine, I'm illiterate in computer stuff) are at www.iac.net/~mhfolz/soundpix.html

Take that one step back and there is a bluegrass site: www.iac.net/~mhfolz/bluegrass.html

Tried "play aquarius" and didn't find a play, but there is a tidbit on how to catch an aquarius male! Is this, like, Captain Highliner, or maybe Trident???

Happy fishing,

Sheye.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From:
Date: 04 Jan 98 - 10:12 PM

The song is on the musical Hair. The Fifth Dimension did a version donkey's years ago followed by Let The Sun Shine In. You still hear it on "oldies" radio stations.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: alison
Date: 04 Jan 98 - 10:53 PM

Hi

Check the links to "Jen's site", it used to be there in the musicals section.

Slainte

Alison

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Selene
Date: 05 Jan 98 - 07:03 PM

Thanks all!

And when I go playing in the dark, I hope it's with a handsome young man! Much more fun ;-)

Selene

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: chet w
Date: 05 Jan 98 - 08:40 PM

The song "Hair" from the Broadway musical Hair was also recorded by the Cowsills, a family group much like the Partridge Family of TV sitcom fame. Since I didn't manage to forget this, maybe you can find it in the 25 cent bins at your local used record store. Please destroy it after listening. Those were not consistently the days. "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In" was recorded by the Fifth Dimension. "Good Morning Starshine", with the memorable lyrics "gliddy gloop gloopy, nibby nobby nooby, na na na no no" was recorded by (I believe) Gilbert O'Sullivan. The composers of all of this were the Ragni brothers. As a film, it was the first well-known hit (not to be redundant too much) by the great (seriously) Czech film director Milos Forman.

Hope this helps. Chet W.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 06 Jan 98 - 02:15 AM

It was a few years ago that I stood on Second Avenue in New York City, around 62nd Street or so. Across the street, a fabric marquee announced the name of a tropical fish store beneath it, and my friend commented that "We are looking at the awning of the 'Age of Aquariums'."

Sorry for any groans this causes, but I really did happen.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From:
Date: 07 Jan 98 - 06:43 PM

Actually, I think the glippy glop gloopy song -- I guess he figured it was better than fal da ral da diddle eye hay -- was recorded by that cheerful man who used to sing on Sesame Street. I seem to recall him singing it on the show.

Didn't Gilbert O'Sullivan sang Alone Again, Naturally and some other unmemorable hits from the days of platform shoes and artificial fabrics? [I wish that all those who want to revive the 70's would remember how hard it was to buy a 100% cotton shirt, with sensible collars, in 1974. And the ties! Ugh:)]

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: alison
Date: 08 Jan 98 - 07:14 AM

Hi

Yeah, that wa Gilbert o'Suliivan, he also did "Claire". I remember begging my mum to buy me platform shoes, (She claimed I was too young..................)

Slainte

Alison

Subject: Lyr Add: FRANK MILLS (from 'Hair')
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 08 Jan 98 - 07:48 AM

Just a little more hair of the dog. This delightful song from "Hair" always gets my listeners "right here".....Tiger

Frank Mills - "Hair"

I met a boy called Frank Mills,
On September 12th., right here
In front of the Waverly,
But, unfortunately,
I lost his address.

He was last seen with his friend,
A drummer.
He resembles George Harrison of the Beatles,
But he wears his hair
Tied in a small bow at the back.

I love him,
But it embarrasses me,
To walk down the street with him.
He lives in Brooklyn, somewhere,
And wears this white crash helmet.
He has gold chains on his leather jacket,
And on the back, are written the names:
Mary, and Mom, and Hell's Angels.

I would gratefully appreciate it,
If you see him, tell him
I'm in the park with my girlfriend, and please,
Tell him Angela and I
Don't want the two dollars back —
Just him.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Earl
Date: 08 Jan 98 - 11:08 AM

The hit version of "Good morning Starshine" was by the one hit wonder Oliver.

By the way, for some unexplained reason "Age of Aquarius" is in the DT database.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 08 Jan 98 - 12:07 PM

We don' need no steenking reasons.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Alice
Date: 08 Jan 98 - 01:57 PM

Charlie, that is the best pun I've seen in a long time! This is a song that dates the older folkies and the younger folkies. My High school senior class graduation party had the theme of "Age of Aquarius" (we were starting to buck the hair length rules) and the prize raffled away was a purple metal flake dunebuggy. All the guys were really mad that the winner was a girl, and not only that, she was so out of the "in" crowd, that no one recognized her name or knew who she was. Revenge of the nerds. alice in montana

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Sheye
Date: 08 Jan 98 - 04:44 PM

Amen, dick...deviance is a virtue!?!

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Selene
Date: 08 Jan 98 - 04:59 PM

Ralph, your'e a saint! or well on your way ( i think you need to perform three miricals, not one). I've been wondering what that song was for ages. Not actively, but I'd heard it and had to sing it in the lower school, and all i could remember was taht line about Mary, Mom and hells angels on his jacket. !!

Thank you so much!

selene

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From:
Date: 08 Jan 98 - 06:25 PM

Hair today, gone tomorrow .

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: chet w
Date: 08 Jan 98 - 06:31 PM

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Earl
Date: 08 Jan 98 - 07:53 PM

Don't forget the Cowsils' version of "Hair."

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Sheye
Date: 08 Jan 98 - 09:05 PM

Chet: Be afraid....

For me, nostalgia is the Beach Boys. Grade 6 and my first kiss swaying to "Surfer Girl".

Questions: If bellbottoms were as bad as they were (and they were UGH!!), why did the fashion industry think they would make a comeback in the '90s. Isn't polyester a chemical cousin to teflon?

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Earl
Date: 08 Jan 98 - 09:44 PM

Sorry Chet, I see you already mentioned the Cowsils. Be glad you only have nostalgia, I'm gettin short-term memory loss.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: chet w
Date: 09 Jan 98 - 11:22 PM

You know, I'm not known for keeping up with fashion trends, but when I do pass through a department store, especially the fancier ones, I have noticed over the past few years that things come out as "new" (and very expensive) when they've had just enough time to get gone from the thrift stores. I've seen it often enough to have little doubt of the validity of this trend. Right now you can buy (for several dozen dollars or more), polyester anything, exactly like what we were wearing in the 60's when we didn't know any better. In a related vein, it's an interesting feeling when your own old toys, comic books, etc. have become valuable antiques. I think this happens faster than it used to. OK, so I'm afraid. Of what, I'm not sure. I feel glad that my guitars and mandolins are generally a lot older than I am, and we get along just fine. I still love the Beach Boys. I was a surfer, at Myrtle Beach, SC, where the waves rarely got over two feet tall or broke more than ten yards from the sand. It was an important thing to be doing at the time.

Nervously, Chet W.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From:
Date: 11 Jan 98 - 06:23 PM

I see disco dancing in local bars. My boss's daughter asked for a lava lamp for Christmas. A twenty year old bartender in a pub I frequent told me that the 1975 Kiss World Tour tee-shirt was a collector's item, and worth money. (My mother had thrown it away years ago, it turned out.) I see twenty-somethings wearing platform shoes, although the new ones seem to have better grips on the soles than did the originals. Yesterday I read a glowing review of the Poseidon Adventure, and how it was the ur movie that started a whole movie genre. New groups have put out a CD covering the Carpenters. What's next? Pong? Four inch wide ties? Polyester leisure suits? A Chico And The Man retrospective?

My message to the younger people is leave it alone. You don't know what a vile bog of bad taste you are seeking to revive. Please God, don't let those clothes and those hairstyles come back into fasion!:)

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: chet w
Date: 11 Jan 98 - 11:52 PM

I agree wholeheartedly. Do things in your own time. Repeating the past has consequences that are hard to predict. I am, among other things, a woodworker, and even though I love old things (especially musical instruments) I wouldn't try to copy them now. I design things in modern terms, although I don't even know what most of the genres mean (post-modern, etc) but I want my work to be from my time. Even when I sing an old song, I don't try to change it for the sake of change, but if I have a good original idea to incorporate into it, I do it. One nice thing though, in bookstores that cater to college students and other hip types, I can now find books by people like Jack Kerouac that haven't been available for decades.

Carry on, Chet W.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Selene
Date: 13 Jan 98 - 03:57 PM

Hi all

I agree, those platform sole shoes are awfull! although, they do add an inch or two ;-) (hey, I'm short), but i wouldn't want to go to the 60s trends again. However lava lamps, those I like! you can take the good bits and mix it with the good bits of nowadays. and as to the bell-bottoms that are in currently over here-I wouldn't be seen dead in them!

Selene

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Bert
Date: 13 Jan 98 - 04:12 PM

A couple of years a go I found some sheet music from my early teens - in an antique store.

Boy, did that make ME feel old.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From:
Date: 14 Jan 98 - 11:58 AM

Aww, c'mon now -- I wouldn't say older music recognition/appreciation *necesarily* sets the elder folkies from the younger, so much -- it really depends on their PARENTS. Why, I still have the 5th Dimension album earlier in question -- my very first, actually. I was at a garage sale with my mom and begged her to buy it for me (50 cents!) since it had 'Aquarius'in the name. (That happens to be my "sign", heh heh...) Until then all I had heard was The Beach Boys, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Jim Croce and Elvis-y stuff, and it totally blew me away! The year was 1976 and I had just turned six myself.

Now here I sit looking over at the Dover edition of Child ballads next to my lava lamp and listening to Metallica. (At least, I like to think those books are listening... as opposed to say, GROANING.) Ain't life GRAND?

And yes -- I own 4-inch denim platforms and wear them proudly. WooHoo!!! (But I draw the line at bell-bottoms -- At least SOME of us youngsters have a little taste...)

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Jon W.
Date: 14 Jan 98 - 05:27 PM

As high school students in California in the early '70s my friends and I went through a '50s nostalgia phase were we rediscovered music from the time we were babies and toddlers - Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, the Beatles' early years and the Beach Boys - and it was a lot of fun. I guess the kids these days are doing the same thing. I won't begrudge them that.

BTW, Elektra, bell bottoms of various widths (some so narrow they were just called "flares") were much more universal and lasted much longer as a style than platform shoes - and were certainly considered less flamboyant.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Bob Landry
Date: 14 Jan 98 - 11:08 PM

Elektra, when my eldest son began elementary school in the mid-70's, his mother took a picture of him dressed in pale green bell bottoms. At his high school graduation, that picture was projected on the wall for all to see and we heard was the funeral toll: "bong... bong.... bong...." I thought then that bell bottoms had received the death knell. I guess not. Instead, we have proof of the old adage, "what goes around, comes around".

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Elektra
Date: 15 Jan 98 - 09:08 AM

Eeeee! Sorry -- didn't mean to shout.

Jon, I sometimes forget that my usual tongue-in-cheekiness doesn't translate well to ASCII. I I am well-known (among aquaintances, if not the world-at-large) for my blatant disregard of the whims of fashion... and I often err on the side of flamboyance (though not for anything importantant like a job interview, of course.) Witness my recent first meeting with the members of a mailing list I am on for my favorite (chronologically modern, but very 70's influenced a la Pink Floyd) band, if you dare:

http://home.inreach.com/lament/cwtd9-2.html

Obviously not the same garb I wear when I work the RenFair (A GREAT source of "new" music, well performed, I might add!) or pick up my son from his parochial school...

Actually, the local Renaissance (actually, here it's called the Medieval) Fair was how I first really discovered "folk" music, believe it or not. And (catching myself beginning [ha!] to ramble) if anyone's interested enough to discuss it, I suppose we'd better spawn a new thread...

I think Chet's really got it, though. Like everything else, I keep what I like of the old and combine it with the older. Er, I mean, newer... Or whatever. There is something inherently groovy about playing a centuries-old ballad with some reverb and distortion at 50 watts... on a bowed psaltry. Or whipping out the axe and playing a nice little acoustic version of 'Age of Aquarius' with a well-seasoned antique fiddle for accompaniment!

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Jaxon
Date: 15 Jan 98 - 12:00 PM

Electra, Great picture. It's always nice to have a face to put with the notes. I've got a fun sitre for my music. Try it at http://www.norfolk-county.com/users/jackmurray/jackflash.html No bell-bottoms though. Jack Murray

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Selene
Date: 15 Jan 98 - 05:09 PM

Hi all

electra I wasn't saying there was anything against bell bottoms or platform shoes, or that youngsters can't dress, because we can(hey, i'm only 19). I'm just saying I don't like them. If you like them and they suit you, good luck to you. Actually, in most cases youngsters don't have to rediscover good things about"the old days" (if you want to discuss what I think of them, well, we'll be at it for a while) because they're parents tend to introduce them to it. Or mine did in any case.

Selene

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From:
Date: 15 Jan 98 - 05:31 PM

Lordamighty, spare us from platform shoes and bell bottoms. All this must be nipped in the bud. Those are one step from polyester leisure suits, and after that, we are fast down the slippery slope to open chested shirts, mood rings, and silver coke spoons worn around the neck. (Say, are 'ludes making a comeback too? I'm out of the loop in that department.)

Even then, the people in the know always wore Levis bootcut, with the riveted watch pocket. Bell bottoms would catch on things, frayed faster, and made noise when you walked.

And those corderoy pants with the huge fuzzy corderoy -- frightful.

If you want to revive the one good thing about the seventies, revive the tolerant live and live attitude. That I would like to see return.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From:
Date: 15 Jan 98 - 05:33 PM

Live and let live, I meant of course.

Subject: RE: Aquarius
From: Elektra
Date: 15 Jan 98 - 09:09 PM

Breaker one-niner -- AAAAA-men! That's a big 10-4 "Frere Jaques"!

(I just couldn't resist, Tim... But you *are* right. Right ON, man!) (As opposed to, say, FAR right. But we'll just, like, bag that whole L7 political scene for now. Fer shurr!)

Oops. We're still on the 70's, heh heh -- I did a little time warp there. And typing of 70's musicals: I remember doing the Time Warp...

Though I highly doubt the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" soundtrack would count as folk music, I still like to plunk out "Science Fiction Double Feature" every now and then!

Subject: Tune Add: AQUARIUS
From: alison
Date: 29 Nov 98 - 10:50 PM

Hi,

This tune was missing from the database, so here it is.

Slainte

alison

MIDI file: AQUARIUS.MID

Timebase: 480

Name: AQUARIUS
TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Key: C
Tempo: 120 (500000 microsec/crotchet)
Start
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End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

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T:Aquarius
M:4/4
Q:1/4=120
K:C
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