Haare and 毛! What Is Hair?
A couple of years ago, one of the more Teutonically inclined denizens of the talk.bizarre newsgroup sent me the original cast recording of Hair...in German. I loved it, and was intrigued by the possibilities of other musicals lurking out there in strange and exotic tongues. I searched for a few months, and eventually turned up the Japanese version of Hair, but I never found anything else, unfortunately.
Today, I decided to post a sharity of these two fine recordings for your listening pleasure, so here's the song "Donna" side by side in German and Japanese for comparison purposes.
[Link: Deutsch] [Link: Nihon-go]
(To ljd, wherever you are tonight, danke sch�ne, baby, danke sch�ne.)
Update: the mighty COOP hepped me to the fact that WFMU posted the soundtracks to both Jesus Christ Superstar (Japanese) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Norwegian).
Comments
If you dig around on the WFMU blog, you'll find a Swedish cast recording of The Rocky Horror Show, AND a Japanese cast recording of Jesus Christ Superstar, assuming both are still up there.
Happy hunting!
Posted by: COOP | April 4, 2006 10:51 PM
That's "danke schön." Wayne wouldn't have it any other way.
Posted by: The Rooting Teuton | April 5, 2006 2:38 AM
COOP: thanks for the tip! I'll have a look in their archives.
jkc: actually, it's spelled "Doering bait."
Posted by: MrBaliHai | April 5, 2006 5:18 AM
I've listened to and you should be able to find Rocky Horror in about a dozen different international variations should they interest you.
Posted by: Bubblegumfink | April 5, 2006 10:56 AM
BF: if they're online, then I'm interested. I already spend far too much time thrifting for tiki accoutrements to start digging through record bins looking for RHPS cast recordings in Swahili and Esperanto!
Thanks for the referral, by the way!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | April 5, 2006 11:24 AM