This is one of the most magnificent vocal performances ever. She had an absolutely stellar timbre. Not my generation, but that powerful, strong beautiful top end with that vibrato to die for - just amazing.
I was 12 when I saw this and about to have open heart surgery for a cogential heart defect. This was on HBO and I watched it constantly. I had a crush on Treat Williams and John Savage. This song brought tears to my eyes. I will never forget how special this show is to me. In 2018, I had to have heart surgery again to repair wear and tear on my heart. I watched this almost every night in the last two weeks before my surgery. This musical has meant so much to me and is my comfort
Cheryl Barnes auditioned for Hair at an open casting call. She had no agent and was working as a chambermaid in a motel in Martha's Vineyard. Barnes' song in Hair, "Easy to Be Hard," was captured in one take, and this is the take seen in its entirety in the film.
This was the most emotional and meaningful song in the entire movie other than the final part of the movie and Let the Sun Shine In....What a powerful singer yet so soft but strong in her voice. 🔥🎧🎤💜💜
Interestingly, this song is completely different in the show. In the show, the context is actually much less poignant than it is here. In fact, the movie actually has very little to do with the show.
I was in Washington Square Park when they filmed the medium closeup of the actress singing. Hundreds of us stood in a giant ring around the filmmakers and watched. The point-of-view shots of the woman looking east were shot at a different time. The filmmakers played a recording of the actress singing and she sang to it. The little boy wasn't standing there during the closeup; the actress held on to a gobo stand or something. Although it's not in this clip, there was some interaction between the actress and Treat Williams. Watching him, I learned more about acting than in all the classes I've taken. He was completely focused, shutting out the hundreds of eyes upon him. It was as if we weren't there. And while we were all shivering in our parkas, he was in a light denim jacket and yet was oblivious to the cold. What magnificent concentration. When the woman finished her song, the crowd broke into spontaneous applause.
Wow, thanks for you story! I'm jealous that you got to see this extraordinary singer perform, and see Treat Williams acting. (I've done some background work on films, and yes, it's amazing how different things can be from what ones sees on the screen.)
So it was Washington Square park! I thought so but it didn't look that familiar to me in the scene, so I wasn't sure. I read about Cheryl Barnes, who sang it. She was working as a motel chambermaid in Maine when she went to a cattle call and was chosen to be in the movie. She got rave reviews, but didn't really get much work from it afterward, unfortunately. She was in one other scene that was filmed in Barstow, CA, and after the movie wrapped, she just stayed there, working as a waitress and teaching piano.
Arguably the most profound and beautiful numbers in any movie musical. It has so many levels to it. Even somewhat prophetic. All due to Cheryl. And incredible performance.
In 1979 I was 17 years old. Music was a big part of my life. I would sit in my room late at night with headphones on listening to every word and every note on my record albums. I had already seen Hair performed live on stage and that was what introduced me to what I saw as a musical production that represented my generation and those that were slightly older than I was. (besides my double album: The Who's 1969 Tommy rock opera that I listened to probably hundreds of times) Then, when Hair was released in the theaters, I was there on opening day. I didn't want to go with any friends so I could enjoy the film by myself without any conversations or distractions. Within minutes, I knew this film was special, and early in the movie, when the camera is doing 360° sweeps around Renn Woods as she sings "Aquarius" I thought this was really something! I was mesmerized, I was hooked. Then, further into the movie, comes "Easy To Be Hard" and Cheryl Barnes pours her heart out onto the big screen and by the end of the song, my skinny young body sat there with tears streaming down my face.....she absolutely slayed me with her performance. Speaking of being slayed....the young (28 years old at the time) Beverly D'Angelo's (Sheila) eyes were smoking hot and I simply stared at her...probably missing much of her dialog. When she rides by Claude Bukowski (John Savage) on horseback, he does a double-take at her.....I would have done the same. When the film ended, I just sat there trying to compose myself and reflect on this musical journey I just witnessed. The theater began to empty out and I was sitting there so long that the next group of patrons were already taking their seats. So I stayed and went another round with it. Many years later I bought the DVD which I still watch from time to time. And when "Easy To Be Hard" appears......it still punches me right in the gut.
Same here, I grew up on trips to NYC to see the latest hit musical. Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, etc. I remember when the call came out for extras for a large protest scene to be filmed either in central park or Washington DC. Love all the songs in the movie.
My Uncle shared this movie with my family when I was 16 yrs old and this is the scene that captured my heart more than any other scene. I still watch this scene at least once a week and share it with all my friends and acquaintances every chance I get.
Hi, you are a decade older than me but the effect of the movie was the same for me. I watched it with subtitles in Eastern Europe. Apart from the powerful antiwar message it was the music and the acting that immortalized that piece of art. Milos Forman was from Eastern Europe and we felt a lot of sensibilities of his upbringing brought into this picture.
Exact same for me. I was 17yo in 1979 and we were on vacation in Canada (from Africa) and I saw the movie there. The words, music and all the songs of those days - disco, soft rock, hard rock and songs with expression, protest and emotion were a huge part of my formative years. I too would spend hours, often very late into the night, listening to them on my headphones in my room.
My father told me that when he saw this film in a theater during its original release, the audience gave THIS SONG a standing ovation... IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FILM!! I've never seen an audience do that for any film.
Every time I watch this I love it more and more, but I'm also angrier and angrier with Lafayette as time goes by. Now that I'm grown and have 2young girls of my own that I would die for to make sure they are happy and healthy and have all they need, seeing him leave his son and walk away just really kills me. That he could just leave his son and run off to be a hippy fills me with such rage. And it is only the power of her voice and love for her son that helps calm me down!! The power of song y'all.
i remember watching this as a kid and my mother telling me 'this is the truest song in the movie' and i couldn't really understand at the time (isn't helping others good??), now about 20 years later i understand
I was 14 yrs old when I first saw this movie and this is the part/song that stuck with me for decades after. I've shared it with all of my friends and classmates since then
This song always brings me to tears, I went with a huge group of friends to the Theatre in San Francisco the night the movie premiered. Have seen HAIR live several times, in the early 70’s at The Aquarius Theater in Hollywood, the touring company, then with husband and our sons in 2003, several more times.
My Uncle told me when he saw this in theater while living in Los Angeles, that the entire audience stood up and applauder her performance. He showed this movie to me when I was 14 years old and this was the scene that has stuck with me for over 40 years
I think I've listen to that song about a million times if not more, every time I hear this song, my jaw drops and every hair on my body stands up. She's certainly the best thing I've ever heard in my life. She seems from the depth of her heart. I've read that Milos Forman, the director of 'Hair", try to convince her to record more and more songs but you refused to do so and she preferred piano teaching career. Such a shame, such a waste of great talent.
This entire movie was a FAVORITE! 👏🏾🤗🍿🎞️🎬💈👱🏽♀️💁🏾♀️💇🏾♂️💗❤️💗 I saw this 43 YRS. AGO... WOW 😳 I still LOVE 💕 IT. I'm gonna miss Treat Williams. May he RestInPeace.... 💔🕊️
I was 12 yo when this film hit the movie theaters and I fell in love with the music and the whole film, it's so awesome! This song struck me hard! 🤩❤❤❤👍
I heard this version as a very young child and all these years later it is stunningly beautiful. It has stood the test of time. The best version of this song.❤
This song was written by Galt MacDermot, James Rado, and Gerome Ragni for the musical stage production of Hair. Three Dog Night covered it more than a year later.
Leslie here.. I loved the play.. still have a first edition of the play..Absofknloutly loved the movie! And what a powerful vocal performance! Most definitely a highlight. Rock on 🤘 and Peace ✌️ 🎶🧨🎸♥️🤗🔥💋
I saw the movie Hair when it came out and in a collection of great songs this is my favorite. Her voice! And the look on that adorable baby’s face, so precious.
The beautiful singer does a beautiful job with this beautiful song, but someone did not do as beautiful a job when splicing this scene for whatever reason. The Cheshire reader is interesting. Maybe she was not a part of the cast and just wandered onto the scene one day and then vanished.
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 Especially people who care about strangers Who care about evil and social injustice Do you only care about being proud How about I need a 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 Especially people who care about strangers Who care about evil and social injustice Do you only care about being proud How about I need a friend, I 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 gone, easy to say no Come on, easy to get read Easy to say no But too easy to be cold Easy to say no But too easy to say no Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Galt Mac Dermot / Gerome Ragni / James Rado
THE BEST VERSION OF THIS SONG! I LOVE THREE dog Nights version but. Cheryl Barnes does this song beautifully! You can almost.see.her soul, and you.sure can hear it!.Outstanding! As was the film by Miles Foreman.
Feeling this way right now. My daughter won't help out her old man after I fell down the stairs this week and broke my ankle. I've done so much for her, and she hates me so much that she won't take me to my surgery. She cares about everything else except her own father. Easy to be hard. Says so much. Never felt so alone in my life
Incredibly Talented young Lady the Best vocals of all times. Love this song and Cheryl is so Beautiful. I remember watching this movie and Cheryl is so Mesmerizing , captured my Heart,
While she may have sung live for the camera, that's certainly not the audio used in the final cut. You can record musicals live--_Hedwig and the Angry Inch_ was done that way--but I can't see any way to have done that on location in 1979 and have gotten usable sound.
I was in Washington Square Park when they shot the medium closeup of the actress, and the filmmakers played the prerecorded soundtrack as she sang to it. I don't recall seeing a mic recording her. If you look closely, there are microseconds at the end where she is not exactly in sync with the recording. Nevertheless she did an astonishing job of duplicating her recorded performance. Plus, the audio sounds too good to have been recorded live; both because of its high quality and because of the complete absence of ambient noises such as car horns. Although I suppose that could've been a rehearsal and they may have later recorded her singing it live. If you want a movie with live song performances, watch _The Fantasticks_ or _Les Misérables,_ which I understand were both recorded live with the actors having tiny receivers in one ear. In the final scene of the movie version of _Hair_ the solders who are singing to appear to have been recorded live, but again, the audio sounds too clean for that.
Easy to Be Hard" is a song from the 1967 rock musical Hair. It was written by Galt MacDermot, James Rado, and Gerome Ragni, who put the musical together in the mid-1960s. The original recording of the musical featuring the song was released in May 1968 with the song being sung by Lynn Kellogg, who performed the role of Sheila on stage in the musical.
Loved this song and loved the movie. Just as relevant today as it was over 40 years ago. Isn't so funny how history keeps calling and repeating and repeating , begging to be made right. Maybe, today?
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No, fr, she gave the BEST performance from her voice to her emotion in this movie, hands down.
How did this woman not become a huge star? This is an amazing, heartwrenching rendition. The anger and hurt is palpable. Whew! What a voice.
In my opinioni, this lady Is too good to become part of the so called star system.
This is absolutely the best rendition of this song ever! She sang this song from the bottom of her heart!
Is there a remake in the works
I had no idea this was from "Hair" I though this was a Three Dog Night original... This version here is great!
Brings me to tears
You are so right
Yes it is a strong song.. the half of it..😏
This is one of the most magnificent vocal performances ever. She had an absolutely stellar timbre. Not my generation, but that powerful, strong beautiful top end with that vibrato to die for - just amazing.
Really
the tear in the eye of the little boy... so unbelievable emotional. one of the very best songs in its decade
I don't know ladies and gentlemen, but, it's too good, rgds Colin.
I was 12 when I saw this and about to have open heart surgery for a cogential heart defect. This was on HBO and I watched it constantly. I had a crush on Treat Williams and John Savage. This song brought tears to my eyes. I will never forget how special this show is to me. In 2018, I had to have heart surgery again to repair wear and tear on my heart. I watched this almost every night in the last two weeks before my surgery.
This musical has meant so much to me and is my comfort
I happy you are well. Yes, it is mesmerizing and beautiful.
Hope you are doing well and have a wonderful holiday. XO🎄🎄😊😊
Cheryl Barnes auditioned for Hair at an open casting call. She had no agent and was working as a chambermaid in a motel in Martha's Vineyard. Barnes' song in Hair, "Easy to Be Hard," was captured in one take, and this is the take seen in its entirety in the film.
What happened to her ?she was so talented and espressive
@@annaritaranalli1791 IMDB says she had a few more parts, but maybe she just liked living quietly in Barstow? it's a mystery.
What a vocalist, hard to imagine anyone else singing this song the way she does!
So easy, to be hard!!
my uncle marcel could !
I saw Cheryl Barnes in 1973 at the Forrest Theater in Philadelphia in Godspell. She knocked it out of the park with "All Good Gifts".
After all these years, this song still gives me goosebumps
Saw ‘Hair’ in the 80’s at a revival theatre in Chicago. This scene / song elicited spontaneous applause and a standing ovation. She is incredible.
This was the most emotional and meaningful song in the entire movie other than the final part of the movie and Let the Sun Shine In....What a powerful singer yet so soft but strong in her voice. 🔥🎧🎤💜💜
I agree, and that's considering how amazing the other songs are!
Interestingly, this song is completely different in the show. In the show, the context is actually much less poignant than it is here. In fact, the movie actually has very little to do with the show.
I was in Washington Square Park when they filmed the medium closeup of the actress singing. Hundreds of us stood in a giant ring around the filmmakers and watched. The point-of-view shots of the woman looking east were shot at a different time. The filmmakers played a recording of the actress singing and she sang to it. The little boy wasn't standing there during the closeup; the actress held on to a gobo stand or something.
Although it's not in this clip, there was some interaction between the actress and Treat Williams. Watching him, I learned more about acting than in all the classes I've taken. He was completely focused, shutting out the hundreds of eyes upon him. It was as if we weren't there. And while we were all shivering in our parkas, he was in a light denim jacket and yet was oblivious to the cold. What magnificent concentration.
When the woman finished her song, the crowd broke into spontaneous applause.
Wow, thanks for you story! I'm jealous that you got to see this extraordinary singer perform, and see Treat Williams acting. (I've done some background work on films, and yes, it's amazing how different things can be from what ones sees on the screen.)
Amazing performer
Wow! Lucky you! I am in radio and lived in NYC and Hollywood on The HUDSON (valley !) But I will always be blown away by this! Thanks!
Cheryl Barnes!
So it was Washington Square park! I thought so but it didn't look that familiar to me in the scene, so I wasn't sure.
I read about Cheryl Barnes, who sang it. She was working as a motel chambermaid in Maine when she went to a cattle call and was chosen to be in the movie. She got rave reviews, but didn't really get much work from it afterward, unfortunately. She was in one other scene that was filmed in Barstow, CA, and after the movie wrapped, she just stayed there, working as a waitress and teaching piano.
Arguably the most profound and beautiful numbers in any movie musical. It has so many levels to it. Even somewhat prophetic. All due to Cheryl. And incredible performance.
In 1979 I was 17 years old.
Music was a big part of my life. I would sit in my room late at night with headphones on listening to every word and every note on my record albums.
I had already seen Hair performed live on stage and that was what introduced me to what I saw as a musical production that represented my generation and those that were slightly older than I was. (besides my double album: The Who's 1969 Tommy rock opera that I listened to probably hundreds of times)
Then, when Hair was released in the theaters, I was there on opening day.
I didn't want to go with any friends so I could enjoy the film by myself without any conversations or distractions.
Within minutes, I knew this film was special, and early in the movie, when the camera is doing 360° sweeps around Renn Woods as she sings "Aquarius" I thought this was really something!
I was mesmerized, I was hooked.
Then, further into the movie, comes "Easy To Be Hard" and Cheryl Barnes pours her heart out onto the big screen and by the end of the song, my skinny young body sat there with tears streaming down my face.....she absolutely slayed me with her performance.
Speaking of being slayed....the young (28 years old at the time) Beverly D'Angelo's (Sheila) eyes were smoking hot and I simply stared at her...probably missing much of her dialog. When she rides by Claude Bukowski (John Savage) on horseback, he does a double-take at her.....I would have done the same.
When the film ended, I just sat there trying to compose myself and reflect on this musical journey I just witnessed. The theater began to empty out and I was sitting there so long that the next group of patrons were already taking their seats.
So I stayed and went another round with it.
Many years later I bought the DVD which I still watch from time to time.
And when "Easy To Be Hard" appears......it still punches me right in the gut.
Same here, I grew up on trips to NYC to see the latest hit musical. Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, etc. I remember when the call came out for extras for a large protest scene to be filmed either in central park or Washington DC. Love all the songs in the movie.
My Uncle shared this movie with my family when I was 16 yrs old and this is the scene that captured my heart more than any other scene. I still watch this scene at least once a week and share it with all my friends and acquaintances every chance I get.
Hi, you are a decade older than me but the effect of the movie was the same for me. I watched it with subtitles in Eastern Europe. Apart from the powerful antiwar message it was the music and the acting that immortalized that piece of art. Milos Forman was from Eastern Europe and we felt a lot of sensibilities of his upbringing brought into this picture.
Exact same for me. I was 17yo in 1979 and we were on vacation in Canada (from Africa) and I saw the movie there. The words, music and all the songs of those days - disco, soft rock, hard rock and songs with expression, protest and emotion were a huge part of my formative years. I too would spend hours, often very late into the night, listening to them on my headphones in my room.
My father told me that when he saw this film in a theater during its original release, the audience gave THIS SONG a standing ovation... IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FILM!! I've never seen an audience do that for any film.
It was easier to be kind back then.
Ich war da erst 13. Mit 17 das Musiclal und den Film "entdeckt"!❤😂
RIP Treat Williams. Underrated actor in an underrated film. And yes, this scene is powerful.
Hair is anything but underrated.
His going to war for his friend and dying was really crazy.
Oh, i see Miss Willaims died, im extremlly sorry...
Hair is not underrated at all as well late actor
Every time I watch this I love it more and more, but I'm also angrier and angrier with Lafayette as time goes by. Now that I'm grown and have 2young girls of my own that I would die for to make sure they are happy and healthy and have all they need, seeing him leave his son and walk away just really kills me. That he could just leave his son and run off to be a hippy fills me with such rage. And it is only the power of her voice and love for her son that helps calm me down!! The power of song y'all.
super voice, alone the emotion..great!
I read that when the critics previewed the movie, they gave this scene/song a standing ovation.
i remember watching this as a kid and my mother telling me 'this is the truest song in the movie' and i couldn't really understand at the time (isn't helping others good??), now about 20 years later i understand
I have simply never heard anything better in terms of vocal performance, my all time favorite!
She killed this song. i saw this when i was 12, and no matter who covers this song, i think of her singing in the cold.
This song sung at its best by Cheryl!
So you may also be born in 1967?😃
It never gets old to me..... same worthy conversations
And the wee boy also , who seems to near frozen!!
I was 14 yrs old when I first saw this movie and this is the part/song that stuck with me for decades after. I've shared it with all of my friends and classmates since then
Shout out to Cheryl Barnes best version of this song ever...! RIP TREAT WILLIAMS 💞
This song always brings me to tears, I went with a huge group of friends to the Theatre in San Francisco the night the movie premiered. Have seen HAIR live several times, in the early 70’s at The Aquarius Theater in Hollywood, the touring company, then with husband and our sons in 2003, several more times.
This song send chills right through me.
By her, yes. It is powerful.
I didn't know this lady could sing this
This whole damn movie!
My Uncle told me when he saw this in theater while living in Los Angeles, that the entire audience stood up and applauder her performance. He showed this movie to me when I was 14 years old and this was the scene that has stuck with me for over 40 years
I was in Seattle. I was 20 in 1979, saw it in a theater a block from my first apartment. I ugly-cried.
Best sung song in the movie. Bravissima to Cheryl Barnes for this great performance.
I think I've listen to that song about a million times if not more, every time I hear this song, my jaw drops and every hair on my body stands up. She's certainly the best thing I've ever heard in my life. She seems from the depth of her heart. I've read that Milos Forman, the director of 'Hair", try to convince her to record more and more songs but you refused to do so and she preferred piano teaching career. Such a shame, such a waste of great talent.
Spectacular rendition. 💥
This is one of, if not the best rendition of this song EVER!
AB-SO-LUTE-LYYYYYY!!!!
The best
The look of that little boy's face breaks my heart.
The greatest movie musical performance ever!
even after watching it for over 30 years now every year again or so...it still give me chills....truely amazing and impossible to do better.
I totally agree with you. A million times Awesome. 😊
It just floors me everytime. Doesn't get better than this, all these years later.
Not including. It's simply a grate piece of music, one of my favorites.
@@marcelkloesmeijer8097 indeed
This performance makes me ball..she was absolutely crushing this, best muscal number I have seen in a film, too bad we never heard from her again..
Really liked this film - and this is my favorite number in it because of the incredible emotion and feeling in Cheryl Barnes’ performance.
So true of a sung! The lady sung it from the bottom of her feet to the top of her head! Great!
She tore that song up!
I love her voice! Beautiful version of this song.
My fav version
Good to know that other people are also thrilled with this song.
My favorite song from the musical. I love this version--she's amazing!
All I can say is WOW amazing sang with a lot of emotion ❤️
Pure magic. And so intense. Just wonderful.
Still gives me goosebumps every single time I watch this
Cheryl Barnes! What a great voice!
This entire movie was a FAVORITE! 👏🏾🤗🍿🎞️🎬💈👱🏽♀️💁🏾♀️💇🏾♂️💗❤️💗 I saw this 43 YRS. AGO... WOW 😳
I still LOVE 💕 IT. I'm gonna miss Treat Williams. May he RestInPeace.... 💔🕊️
I was 12 yo when this film hit the movie theaters and I fell in love with the music and the whole film, it's so awesome!
This song struck me hard!
🤩❤❤❤👍
2:02 when I’m telling y’all my heart melted 🥰
I heard this version as a very young child and all these years later it is stunningly beautiful. It has stood the test of time. The best version of this song.❤
Cheryl Barnes is magnificent.
Cheryl is an incredible singer!
This performance still gives me chills. Barnes owns this movie. (She's gone on to great jazz performances. Google, people.)
The most beautiful voice ever
Berger "That's BULLSHIT MAN! You fix what you started!"
That's what runs in my head when I see them fight.
Brilliant ! One song can change the world.
Beautiful arrangement about this song
I like the Three Dog Night version, but her singing just knocks it out of the park!
3 Dog Night version changes the meaning of the song from a personal love that is lost to an overall societal lament.
A great Three Dog Night tune sung to brilliantly and used so well in this production.
This song was written by Galt MacDermot, James Rado, and Gerome Ragni for the musical stage production of Hair. Three Dog Night covered it more than a year later.
@@gistak
3 Dog Night did all covers. No original material.
Just songs that had been overlooked or didn't make the top forty, their first time around.
Leslie here.. I loved the play.. still have a first edition of the play..Absofknloutly loved the movie!
And what a powerful vocal performance! Most definitely a highlight.
Rock on 🤘 and Peace ✌️
🎶🧨🎸♥️🤗🔥💋
Loved this movie when it came out. Love this scene even more now. So powerful.
I saw the movie Hair when it came out and in a collection of great songs this is my favorite. Her voice! And the look on that adorable baby’s face, so precious.
Perfectly captures that moment in American history. Tragically, that moment isn't over yet.
I love how the reading woman on the bench just vanishes and reappears again every couple of shots!
or that the script supervisor was doing a shite job.
I think she gets cold and goes home :o)
and she came back and went home again... and came back... and... lol ;)
THAT is what you're paying attention to?
The beautiful singer does a beautiful job with this beautiful song, but someone did not do as beautiful a job when splicing this scene for whatever reason. The Cheshire reader is interesting. Maybe she was not a part of the cast and just wandered onto the scene one day and then vanished.
The most memorable part of the movie. That poor little baby boy. 😥
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
Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about being proud
How about I need a 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
Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about being proud
How about I need a friend, I 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 gone, easy to say no
Come on, easy to get read
Easy to say no
But too easy to be cold
Easy to say no
But too easy to say no
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Galt Mac Dermot / Gerome Ragni / James Rado
Thank you for sharing.
Almost, she actually sings here "Do you only care about the bleeding crowd" not "Do you only care about being proud"
I should have been older before I saw this movie. The end never left my memory, my entire life. It was shocking. I cried for weeks. Really!
THE BEST VERSION OF THIS SONG! I LOVE THREE dog Nights version but. Cheryl Barnes does this song beautifully! You can almost.see.her soul, and you.sure can hear it!.Outstanding! As was the film by Miles Foreman.
true, this is the best version of the song...impossible to beat.
@@marcelkloesmeijer8097 Totally agree!
Feeling this way right now. My daughter won't help out her old man after I fell down the stairs this week and broke my ankle. I've done so much for her, and she hates me so much that she won't take me to my surgery. She cares about everything else except her own father. Easy to be hard. Says so much. Never felt so alone in my life
I have a kid like this. It has taken me years to accept that this is just how she is. Hope you are healing well 🫂
Kids dont do this to parents they feel were there for them,, but way easier to be hard for sure
What a masterpiece!
I have to admit....this storyline packs a bigger punch than "berger ripped a jacket and now im sad"
This song is so relevant today!
How could anyone pass up the chance to hire this incredible singer??? She was magnificent!!
She didn't want any musical career. She was a piano teacher. The director try to persuade her to make more songs but she didn't wanted do it.
By the way she recorded the song in one take.
Incredibly Talented young Lady the Best vocals of all times. Love this song and Cheryl is so Beautiful. I remember watching this movie and Cheryl is so Mesmerizing , captured my Heart,
First time ever hearing this song...WOW!
R.I.P. Miloš Forman the great one -)
Oh no, did Milos die??? I HAZ A SAD NAO. :(
And NYC stands stronger than ever. I LOVE my city (after Rabat), with same passion, hope for the future. Khadija
I saw this last night at Ebertfest. One of the producers said this was done live, no lip sync.
While she may have sung live for the camera, that's certainly not the audio used in the final cut. You can record musicals live--_Hedwig and the Angry Inch_ was done that way--but I can't see any way to have done that on location in 1979 and have gotten usable sound.
She did do the sing in one take.
I was in Washington Square Park when they shot the medium closeup of the actress, and the filmmakers played the prerecorded soundtrack as she sang to it. I don't recall seeing a mic recording her. If you look closely, there are microseconds at the end where she is not exactly in sync with the recording. Nevertheless she did an astonishing job of duplicating her recorded performance. Plus, the audio sounds too good to have been recorded live; both because of its high quality and because of the complete absence of ambient noises such as car horns. Although I suppose that could've been a rehearsal and they may have later recorded her singing it live. If you want a movie with live song performances, watch _The Fantasticks_ or _Les Misérables,_ which I understand were both recorded live with the actors having tiny receivers in one ear. In the final scene of the movie version of _Hair_ the solders who are singing to appear to have been recorded live, but again, the audio sounds too clean for that.
Simply wonderful
Moves me to tears every time. Most poignant scene.
for this song merita un OSCAR!
She Kills it …. The absolute best
how she nailed the first note...so much skill
Bellissima canzone, interpretata in maniera eccellente!❤
just touching my soul
How someone can walk away from their children like that I could never understand 😢
That was the saddest song ever. Someone hold me.
Stunning! Just stunning by Cheryl Barnes
My childhood movie. Not a lot in my surroundings knows it. Happy i grew up with it
I 've always loved this song but only when she sings it , she sings it best .
i can wholly identify with it too
I remember Ms Barnes in the Star Search tv show. This performance should have boosted her career.
She speaks steaight from my ❤
This still crushes me. Phenomenal. Cheryl Barnes’s version is the best.
Cheryl Barnes rocks❣️👏👌👍❤️💓
Sintam só a magia 😊
Hair...... Stop War!!!!!!
A beautiful movie
Thank you my friend sascha for suggesting this to me
Cheryl Maravilhosa Barnes
This version is absolutely fabuloys, heartbreaking!!
Easy to Be Hard" is a song from the 1967 rock musical Hair. It was written by Galt MacDermot, James Rado, and Gerome Ragni, who put the musical together in the mid-1960s. The original recording of the musical featuring the song was released in May 1968 with the song being sung by Lynn Kellogg, who performed the role of Sheila on stage in the musical.
Loved this song and loved the movie. Just as relevant today as it was over 40 years ago. Isn't so funny how history keeps calling and repeating and repeating , begging to be made right. Maybe, today?
So powerful beautifully directed