[Mb-hair] Oh Great God of Power

[richard haase]

we also incorporated in 1980 some of the numbers that were ommitted for bdwy
like women of the world unite
how i love my hippy life
etc
all really good songs
i havent found a lame one

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Courtney" <dauber at banana-and-louie.org>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Oh Great God of Power


> On 04/01/2006, Little Birdie wrote:
>
> > Yes, the song Oh Great God of Power is in the official script, and
> > always  has been. Hair has more songs than the average musical of its
> > day did, and  so a number of songs were not included on the original
> > cast album, in order  to allow it to conform to what a standard album
> > length was in those days.  Some of the songs not included were recorded
> > and then cut, reappearing on  the reissue of the OBC than came out -
> > when? Dauber? Was it 88?
>
> Yup -- 1988 indeed!
>
> > Anyway,  other songs, like Oh Great God of
> > Power, were never recorded originally, so  weren't on the reissue. It
> > was only finally officially recorded for  DisinHAIRited.
> > It was included in some foreign recordings, and we have it on the
> > recordings  of the live recordings that we have in the archives.
>
> It's on the Fresh Hair album. Of course, it's not on the CD that combines
> the 1968 London album and Fresh Hair.
>
> What's interesting is that it seems to me that most productions do "Oh
Great
> God Of Power" in 2/4 time. The Fresh Hair version is stretched into common
> time; I think it works much better that way. Very powerful.
>
> Glad to see I'm not the only one lamenting the overlooking of OGGOP. :)
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