How can people be so heartless...

[The Midway Rebel]

Damn, 40 years gone by already...life is short and it is easy to be hard, easy to be cold, easy to be proud, easy to say no.

Let us do the hard things.


Easy to be Hard -- Three Dog Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dev7yoxlK-s&feature=related

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who care about evil
And social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people be so heartless
You know I'm hung up on you
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who say they care about evil and social injustice
Do you only Care about the bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend?
Oh need a friend

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no
Easy to be cold
Easy to say no
C'mon Easy to give in
Easy to say no
Easy to be cold
Easy to say no
Easy to say no

[Ptah]

1. Excellent song.

Thanks for the earworm.

[struggle4progress]

2. Song's from Hair

... Sheila buys Berger a yellow satin shirt which he spurns. She feels rejected - Easy to Be Hard ... http://www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1887.html

[The Midway Rebel]

4. Yup. I was a Theatre major once.

It was 1980 and my professors were the original genuine long-haired-blue-jean wearing college kids of the 60's era. They still dressed that way. Professors have been wearing jeans and letting you call them by their firt names ever since. Also, believe it or not, the 60's were still a bit alive in 1980 in places like Manhattan...Kansas.

I recall they were still furious about the shitty '78 movie that pretty much put a period on the era. They made godamn sure we learned the difference between art and entertainment.

Many great tunes from that musical play. This one is my favorite. What's your fave?

[abq e streeter]

3. almost 41 for me (since seeing Hair)....on the literally very last day of the 1960's

Dec. 31st, 1969...

[The Midway Rebel]

6. Awesome story!

On Broadway?

I was only 7 in '69 and grew up with FM in the 70's. There was no escaping 3 Dog Night on the FM.

I fell in love with the tune again after 9/11 when it so easy to be so hard.

[abq e streeter]

11. No.... in Chicago.

Damned if I can remember where exactly though. Never saw 3 Dog Night; I bet they were damn good in person back then. Great singers and, I suspect, some top notch LA guys backing them up live. I liked a lot (not all, but most) of their records. And already had liked Danny Hutton's Big Bright Eyes from 2 or 3 years before the forming of 3DN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QMVzgBlMhY

[murielm99]

13. I saw it in Chicago, too. n/t

[abq e streeter]

14. Probably same theater and cast (?)

Do you remember where?

P.S. just for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcQfy1SavdQ

[murielm99]

15. Probably.

I saw it there the first week it opened. I went with a group of friends from my college. It had to be at the Shubert, in 1969. It was so long ago that it is hard for me to remember. We thought Mayor Daley would close it down because of the nude scene.

It was very very cold that night. We went to Piper's Alley for pizza afterward.

That Broadway cast album was something we played over and over in those days. Every friend I had, every party I went to, that album was played at least once. Hair is part of the soundtrack of my life.

[murielm99]

16. Chickenman!

He's everywhere! He's everywhere!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Saw it earlier that year, in March.

*sigh* God, I'm old...

[abq e streeter]

8. re: the text of your reply..........tell me about it

I mean after all, when I look in the mirror I don't see an old guy....oops, just looked; yes I do. Gotta go now, time to refill the geritol in the bong.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. I look in the mirror and wonder who that old bag is.

I'm planning to paint psychedelic designs and peace signs on my Hoveround one of these days.

[LaurenG]

5. memories! nt

[Callalily]

9. Wow! I haven't heard that

song in a long time.

Thanks for posting!

[applegrove]

12. I loved Hair. I had both albums, from the movie and the stage show. Great song. Thanks.