[1] Hair premiered Off-Broadway at the Public Theater on October 17, 1967, and the cast album was recorded two weeks later.

[citation needed] The lead roles were played by Walker Daniels as Claude, Gerome Ragni as Berger, Jill O'Hara as Sheila, Steve Dean as Woof, Arnold Wilkerson as Hud, Sally Eaton as Jeanie and Shelley Plimpton as Crissy.

[2] In the Off-Broadway version of Hair, the lead role of Claude had been written as a space alien who aspires to be a cinematic director.

[3] This Off-Broadway recording includes the songs "Exanaplanetooch" and "Climax," which were cut from the Broadway production.

[3] When it was released on CD as a bonus disc of the Broadway album, it also included three songs that were in the show, but not on the original LP: "Opening", "Red Blue And White" (the future "Don't Put It Down") and the finale "Sentimental Ending", plus an interview with composer Galt MacDermot.