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James Rado

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Personal name
James Alexander Radomski
Born
January 23, 1932
Died
June 21, 2022
Country
United States
IPI
00035047405 54 works
Affiliation
ASCAP
Comments
Actor, playwright, director, and composer, best known as the co-author, along with Gerome Ragni, of the 1967 musical Hair. He's inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009.
Member of
The Company [Hair, Original Broadway Cast] Claude (1968-1972)
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Originals

Covers by James Rado

Sampled songs

Songs written by James Rado

Original songs

Title Written by Originally by Original date Covered by
3-5-0-0 Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Company [Hair, Original Broadway Cast] PRF, Galt MacDermot REC April 11, 1968 Covered by (10 artists)
Ain't Got No Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Walker Daniels, Gerome Ragni, Steve Dean, Arnold Wilkerson and Company PRF, Walker Daniels, Gerome Ragni, Steve Dean, Arnold Wilkerson and the Company REC,REL October 17, 1967 Covered by (32 artists)
Aquarius Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Company [Hair, Original Broadway Cast] PRF, The Company [Hair, Original Broadway Cast] REC,REL October 17, 1967 Covered by (237 artists)
Be-In (Hare Krishna) Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni The Company [Hair, Original Broadway Cast] PRF, Company [Hair, Original Broadway Cast] REL April 11, 1968 Covered by (29 artists)
Black Boys Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Diane Keaton, Suzannah Norstrand and Natalie Mosco PRF,REC,REL April 11, 1968 Covered by (12 artists)
Colored Spade Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Lamont Washington and Company PRF,REC,REL April 11, 1968 Covered by (17 artists)
Donna Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Gerome Ragni and Company PRF,REC,REL April 11, 1968 Covered by (20 artists)
Easy to Be Hard Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Suzannah Evans, Linda Compton, Paul Jabara and Company PRF, Suzannah Evans, Linda Compton, Paul Jabara and the Company REC,REL October 17, 1967 Covered by (47 artists)
Frank Mills Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Shelley Plimpton PRF,REL October 17, 1967 Covered by (51 artists)
Good Morning Starshine Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Jill O'Hara and Company PRF, Jill O'Hara and The Company REC,REL October 17, 1967 Covered by (104 artists)
Hair Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Walker Daniels, Gerome Ragni and Company PRF, Walker Daniels, Arnold Wilkerson, Gerome Ragni, Steve Dean, Paul Jabara, Thommie Bush, Edward Murphy, Jr., Bob Johnson, William Herter, Warren Burton REC,REL October 17, 1967 Covered by (56 artists)
I believe in love Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado Melba Moore 1988 Unverified
I Got Life Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni James Rado and Company PRF, Walker Daniels, Marijane Maricle REC,REL October 17, 1967 Covered by (44 artists)
I'm Black Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Lamont Washington, Steve Curry, Gerome Ragni and James Rado PRF,REL April 11, 1968 Covered by (5 artists)
Manchester, England Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Walker Daniels PRF,REC,REL October 17, 1967 Covered by (14 artists)
Sodomy Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Steve Curry and Company PRF,REC,REL April 11, 1968 Covered by (12 artists)
The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In) Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni James Rado, Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore and Company PRF,REC,REL April 11, 1968 Covered by (132 artists)
Walking in Space Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Company [Hair, Original Broadway Cast] PRF, The Company [Hair, Original Broadway Cast] REC,REL October 17, 1967 Covered by (21 artists)
What a Piece of Work Is Man Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Ronald Dyson & Walter Harris PRF,REC,REL April 11, 1968 Covered by Jay Armstrong Johnson
Where Do I Go? Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Walker Daniels and Company PRF, Walker Daniels and the Company REC,REL October 17, 1967 Covered by (41 artists)
White Boys Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni Melba Moore, Mary Davis and Emmaretta Marks PRF,REC,REL April 11, 1968 Covered by (13 artists)

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