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  • Dang, they sound good but didn't the eldest brother Barry pass on? 

  • RAP IS CRAP! Classic Rock Forever! Thanks for posting this.

    60's were, and always will be a preview of heaven.

    KEEP ON ROCKIN!

    ab

  • Hair! Yair!!

  • 6 idiots would rather listen to Rap

  • Gaga at the Gogo..that's my favorite line of the song...saw hair on stage and man what a trip...those days will never come back...the 60's were insanely eventful and changed so many people's lives ...for the better and some for the worse....

  • I"m going Gaga at the Gogo. This is awesome

  • They sound as good as they did back in the 1960's!!!!! Oh and "...GaGa at the GoGo" is from the original Broadway song.

    What a gift to see them again after all these years!

  • Very impressive. Music and video both.  It's been a long, long time. Very impressive.

  • Six peeps just don't get it......

  • omg...thanks for posting this...they still sound incredible!!

  • Six damn people are the fleas....

  • I notice in the older version they replace the Jesus verse with the the ?chorus? in older versions.

  • "Gaga at the go-go" was in the original.

  • Saw them in 69 with mama and all the kids, a great show. They said that they had to cut the verse because of the Jesus/Mary line, then they played the entire version. They also did a great cover of Honkey Tonk Woman!

  • I think that other verse was one that was cut out because at the time, radio stations didn't want songs longer than 3 minutes.

  • This group didn't need session players. They were and are still great.

  • I was 12 years old when u came out whith this soon be turning 55, loved it then and love it just as much today, and I've use to sign this to my granddaughter, passing it on.. thank you for all wonderful songs and happiest of my child hood,

    Love u all,

  • Oh I love my family.

  • This people never lost it. They are better. Thanks for posting.

  • I can see everybody's eyes.

  • I am crushing on Susan, her moves, harmonies, and cute smirk right before she goes into the hairstyles are adorable. Love her!

  • GAGA AT THE GOGO ISN'T NEW ITS IN THE ORIGINAL PLAY-

  • @1957arm Copy that!

  • I just saw them at Mohegan Sun Casino Aug 25th, 2011. Same lineup. They were fantastic!!

  • Cowsills were fantastic at bb kings nyc. i cant wait to see them again at The Cannery Casino Las vegas NV on Sunday Sept 4, 2011.

  • @rocmaven I was at the B.B.King show they were fantastic!

  • Love this video....so good to see you all still rockin and rollin....How are you doing ?

    I hope your feeling well, happy and healthy.....wish I could see you in person ! Best wishes to you, Sir !

  • This is so awesome, talk about bring back memories. I went to school with the girl in this video but I cant remember her name I know she will remember me. We went to school with us for a short time in Las Vegas wow this is great.

  • When I first heard this on TV, many years ago, I loved it (Although my hair was short ) Now it's below my waist. I love the addition. AMEN.

  • I like that "Gaga at the gogo" was added, sort of predicting the next era of music in a kewl rockin' song even if it wasn't intended!!

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  • I remember when this song came out!!! WOW do they still sound AWESOME or what????

  • This is Amazing. I can't believe how good they all look and sound. I was a kid when this all happened, but a huge fan. God Bless!

  • I read the description after listening to / watching the video.

    I sure don't recall that last verse!

    Thanx for uploading this. I got a real kick out of it.

    :)

  • this was such a flawless performance....excellent.

  • I love them got some autographs of them back from in 70's awesome to see them!!!

  • Wow I love this video! You guys look great!

  • and spaghettiiiiiiiii! thanks a lot for this! shared it with my daughter who just turned 30!! she loved it.

  • Going to see the Cowsills on July 26, 2011 at Mohegan Sun in CT and July 27 at BB Kings in Manhattan NYC. Can't wait.

  • Great memories and sounding better than ever.

    Thanks for posting.

  • Brings back great memories of when I had hair. They still sound great!

  • @BFritz3000 that comment official makes you a Re-Re. if you dont like a song dnt watch the video. this song made history. its been loved by millions since WAY before you were alive. keep it to yourself.

  • PBS rocks.

  • WOW, how good was that. This sounds awesome, these guys are pros. Talk about hitting home. Is that bob cowsill singing the main vocal and whos drumming. Need to know who the drummer is.

  • Susan was, is, and always will be a babe!! Love that "aannd spagheetiii!!" Awesome voice!

  • Such a great song, sounds like a prophecy.

  • ...STELLAR! FABULICIOUS!

  • I love this band! I had very long hair back in the 60's and 70's.

  • They still sound great.

  • Thanks for posting,,,

  • Better than their studio recorded version..this song made us won in a band contest in the early 70's..took my breath away watching this clip and reminiscing the days we practiced especially the harmony of the background voices/notes

  • Wow!!this is even better th

  • Never gets old, even if I do!

  • Expected them to sound different,but there seems to be no aging of the voice here...at ALL.

  • @photonicus overdubbing and double tracking will do that very thing

  • Good Lordy..... Do they really still sound this good? That is amazing ;)

  • @FiberMania Yup, they really do. I saw them this past summer at Mohegan Sun Casino and they sounded fantastic.

  • @FiberMania .........yes , they do !

    

  • What a great blast from the past! Thanks.

  • One of the greatest pop records ever made.

  • Great group! They sound very good today.

  • Awesome to see the Cowsills...the 2nd verse is from the original song..Gaga at the gogo...think some of the words back than wouldn't have made air play , so they repeated the verse again...

    awesome job!!!!

  • I love this song!!! I turned ten to day to

  • this great...sounds great...looks fantastic! oh the memories:)

  • Ugh. I absolutely HATE these TJ Lubinsky shows. They have all these great bands but then they absolutely RUIN the sound in post. They re-record the stuff in a studio (sometimes using parts of the ORIGINAL[!] recording) and dub over very poorly edited applause tracks. Then they sync it up to footage they shot in Lake Tahoe and make it a TV show. TJ should present an HONEST LIVE performance instead of some hatchet job. I can understand fixing a few bum notes but his methods are just WRONG.

  • still sound excellent after all these years!

  • I have this song stuck in my head for weeks...then i play it every chance i get. help me, i'm stuck on stupid...but love this tune so much....hahaha

  • @TheIrishmary Nope it aint Stupid, I was 13 when this song came out in 1969, One of The most coolest songs from that year.

  • You aint the only one! this song has been stuck in my head since 1970!

  • this is by far the BEST version ever composed. AND one of the best songs ever composed by mankind

  • geeze Bob, I had such a kid star crush on your little sister many years ago. (susan & I are the same age) I had long hair until I was 19 and in college, I recently quit cutting my hair and for a guy who is 51 -I get some funny responses from the narrow mined folks I work for/with. (fireman) Stumbled on the you tube site and made me feel like I a kid again, thanks for the great music & memories. I still love the Cowsills.

    p.s. say hi to Susan, (my wife thinks I have gone nuts too)

  • ha ha look at that elderly cowsill or cobweb, or whatever it is. he is no more mature than he was when he was performing in the '60s

  • Very nice!

  • Loved it!  What year & where was it recorded?

  • @BHH10 Don't know when it was recorded, But came out in the spring of 1969, Awesome year.

  • ROFLMAO!!! They look like a pack of FOX News consultants.

  • @ProfessorZaroff haha ye u right ... and hair is state of mind in their case BUT they sound so great !

  • Excellent performance.

  • They sound great - God , I miss the 60's.

  • that was an awesome performance!!

  • A true American treasure.

  • Whats gaga at the gogo???

  • @Panda704 it means watch out for Lady Gaga 40 years from now

  • @Panda704 gaga= Ga Ga, amazed, crazy something like that. gogo= Go Go, a 60's dance event. The 80's equivalent would be spun out at the disco. I don't know what would be said now :-)

  • 1:03 to skip him talking

  • The 60's were the best music EVER, such talen, The Cowsills, The beach Boys, The Carpenters and so many others. Sigh, I miss good music.

  • I was born 1990, iam german, but i love it. I wish i was born in 1940.

  • @BaatProductions I was 13 when this song came out in 1969,Oh yeah, You would've LOVED it!

  • @BaatProductions well, if you were born in 1940...you'd be quite old and possibly less able to enjoy the music now! i often thought i was born 10-15 years too late too cause i love 1965-1970 music.

  • hells yes big thumbs up !!!

  • Well done Cowsills. They still have it !

  • Woo hoo... go old stoners!!!!

  • 40+ years AFTERWARDS and the performance of this great song was flawless.

  • @efisher54 yes but its over dubbed after the fact.........all singers use double tracking.

  • One of The Best songs of 1969, brings it all back to Me.

  • Until I was this video I never knew they were singing "oh I do love my hair" as the backing vocals. I've always thought they were just singing "ooooh aaaaaa, hair." Now in the privacy of my bedroom when I'm singing the background part I'll finally be correct-LOL.. And if I'm not mistaken -they are using the lyrics from the original stage version. Thanks for the post. They still sound great!!!

  • Makes me want to grow mine for a year again,, from 1970 to 1971 I didn't cut , trim, shave or do anything to my hair except wash it,,,, I wanted to see what I would look like,, ,, it was down to my shoulders and I fit rite in

  • "They'll be gaga at the Go-Go when she sees me in my toga!" Great version. I also think it is better than the original.

  • Better than the original, imo.

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  • I've never heard such beautiful harmonizing.

  • just like I remember.PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Yes, this is great. A few years ago I stumbled on a band that Billy Cowsill formed in the 90's, the Blue Shadows. Excellent stuff. There are some videos here on You Tube of that band. They all have great voices still.

  • That last verse was not one the 45.

  • Wow! Thank you to all the people who left me messages. I so appreciate them and I was told last week I am in remission!! Its a miracle for sure!

  • @MP99312

    SWEET! As a breast cancer survivor, I say: GO, gal- you rock!

  • @MP99312 Hope you are continuing to do well. In my case, the hassle has been almost as bad as the disease. I tell people "Never get cancer, the paperwork will kill you!"

  • @MP99312  Thank God! Simply refuse to allow it to enter your thoughts any longer and LIVE!!!!

  • @MP99312 GOD BLESS AND HANG IN THERE.

  • awesome performance

  • Im staring to wondering how does it feel to have a long hair?

  • WHAT a great singer

  • Capt Sad and his ship of fools i still one of my all time fav albums and have played it to death.

  • excellent

  • Damn! They still sound just freakin' great!!!

  • JUST GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • They still have it. We have all aged since back in the day. They have aged no worse or better than anyone else. I also enjoy Susan's solo work. I have and will pay to see them again and Susan's solo work. "Gaga at the gogo" has been been lyrics in the song. The AM radio version of the song did not include the verse, but the album version did. I saw them in concert at the State Fair Music Hall in Dallas on February 14, 1970. That was verse included when they sang Hair.

  • That is one tight group. The harmonies and musicianship are perfect.

    Wonderful.

  • @hunk4hire the girl is tight probably...

  • I've always loved the Cowsills (had a crush on Susan years ago and she is one FINE looking woman now!), and loved their music. Thanks for this posting.

  • A blast from the past and a presant from the presant! Sarah is that you at 2:38?

  • @emaclynch -- Uh, uh. No. The Cowsills didn't know the song existed when it originally appeared in the show (in 1967, off Broadway at the Jos Papp Theater). I've done three different versions of Hair and remember the original Broadway version well. The Cowsills covered the tune (an excised the 'religious' verse because it would have killed the song's prospects on radio in 1969) - along with the other acts that covered tunes from the show, Oliver, Three Dog Night, and The Fifth Dimension.

  • @emaclynch -- Uh, uh. No. The Cowsills didn't know the song existed when it originally appeared in the show (in 1967, off Broadway at the Jos Papp Theater). I've done three different versions of Hair and remember the original Broadway version well. The Cowsills covered the tune (an excised the 'religious' verse because it would have killed the song's prospects on radio in 1969) - along with the other acts that covered tunes from the show, Oliver, Three Dog Night, and The Fifth Dimension.

  • they are cool love they song

  • They still sound as terrific as ever! Thanks for the great videoand toMP993 my prayers are with you for strength and lots more laughs and smiles!!!!!!!!!! They do make a body feel good and try Lou Christie,he has some terrific songs to listen to also as wel as Sha-Na-Na who aways added humor to alot of their songs!

  • good video !!

  • #OMG this song is fantastic. !

  • That verse was original to the Broadway play, but was not in the cover of it done by the Cowsills.

  • @MidlifeMom55 ........first of all the cowsills didn't cover it........the play hair used their song..............and the verse was removed from the radio because they thought it sounded to religious

  • 2:35 - Gaga at the gogo . . . . . . Yessssssssssssssssss

  • @ukidinme2010 Not

  • @ToySoldier2007 I'm with ukidinme2010. I LOVE the Cowsills!!! Amazing family!!!

  • Why can't music these days make you smile and feel good like this one does?!!!

  • goosebumps.....what a performance after all of these years....those effing vocals.....!

  • that was awsome..........

  • Hippies man.. like my mom, I was a hippy child growing up in the 70's

    s

  • @jason75 ,

    I'm 51 & was at Woodstock. Isn't it fun to recall days like that? =D

  • MP, my wife had the same experience as you due to chemo. At first she was alarmed, but after awhile she got used to it. Months later she said that after her hair started to come back in she would still shave it bald as it was a lot less trouble that way. Well, it's been three years since chemo, and she did let her hair grow back. Maybe this song is what inspired her to keep it, lol.

  • This song was in the top 10 in the world charts in 1969

  • great melody

  • THIS IS MAH FAMLY!!! I am a proud cowsill! if you ask me, I can anme evryone of em! and, if you email any of em, ask: do you know Leah? they would say yes!

  • "Gaga at the gogo" has always been part of the song... At least from what I'm used to from the play...

  • I was seventeen or eighteen when Hair hit the airwaves. I look at little Susie differently now. She's very pretty. Don't know when they did this but they still have talent. Real talent. Most old groups embarrass themselves on stage. They took me back and the Cowsills did themselves proud.

  • They still sound amazing! Great tune!

  • flow,show,grow it............works for pot also

  • Hair is one of those songs that never grows old. the Cowsills will live forever with their music

  • Man, no music like THAT music. Today's music pales in comparison...this is a GREAT group and very likeable people.

  • sounds as good as it did back in the day.

  • that verse was in the play but cut from their original

  • The verse has always been part of the song. I think they were told to leave it out so they didn't offend anyone. It's my favourite verse in the tune.

  • Great performance!!! Rarely are the groups who could perform so good!

  • This was great, thanks for posting. When I was about 11 or 12, in around 1969 or 1970, the first concert I ever saw was the Cowsills, followed by Tommy James and the Shondells, at the U.S. Naval Academy with my brother!

  • Great song!

  • Wow this song is still a classic! What an awesome performance!

  • wow, this is as good as the original version they did years ago!!! thanks so much for posting this!!!

  • What an absolutely SPECTACULAR performance they put on here<<< SOUNDS JUST LIKE THE RECORD<

  • my favorite rendition... and theirs too!

  • To answer your question about that verse, radio stations didn't want songs longer than three or four minutes long.

  • This was one of THE Coolest songs of 1969, A Classic song form a Classic Year

  • I notice that alot of 16- 22 year olds are growing the freak flag....great sign that the bush conservative years are waning.......kids are sick of all that shit! Rebel kids!!

  • 2:15 will always be my favorite part of the whole song :)

  • wow they sound better than the record if thats possible after all this time i take my hat off to them susie's still adorable!!

  • This is insanely as good as the original. Wow!

  • This is GREAT<<<<<

  • "Gaga at the gogo??? Do I hear a brand new verse added in? "

    hardly...that IS the song verse from the original version.

    Lady Gaga is NOT, and NEVER will be anything more than a bastardized version of Madonna....and i'm no Madonna fan.

    (just in case you were referencing Lady Gaga)

  • I love these fine people!!!! God Bless the Cowsill Family! I truly hope that music in this country and the world for that matter will get back to the innocent essence of the Cowsills! TY for posting this Bob!

  • This a fantastic performance ! Perfectly done after all these years !

  • where did his hair go? ;]

  • @humananus

    Aww that was mean... LOL

  • Love Susan's eye's at 1:54.  What fun!!

  • i was there and i was stoned, i was great

  • It's amazing they sound just as good now as they did back then .