"The Rocky Horror Show: Original London Cast Recording" is the soundtrack of the original theatrical production of "The Rocky Horror Show" in 1973. This is the first released soundtrack related to Rocky Horror. Although the 19 songs had already been written, only 15 songs appear on this sountrack because at the time of recording, only those fifteen songs were part of the stage show.
All music and lyrics were written by Richard O'Brien. The original musical arrangements are by Richard Hartley, who also plays keyboards. Despite being the first sountrack, it has the least impact of all, since subsequent Rocky Horror productions took the musical arrangements of the 1974 Roxy version or the film version.
Most of the lyrics differ greatly from other versions, in some words or even in whole verses. An example of this is that Rocky Horror has a verse on "Touch a Touch Me" that was removed in all subsequent soundtracks.
The lead singers include Richard O'Brien, Christopher Malcolm, Julie Covington, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell, Tim Curry, Rayner Bourton, Paddy O'Hagan, and Jonathan Adams. Bourton and O'Hagan would be the only of all his co-stars who would record this album only, since the rest would record other soundtracks later on.
Performers[]
- Patricia Quinn as The Usherette and Magenta
- Christopher Malcolm as Brad Majors
- Julie Covington as Janet Weiss
- Richard O'Brien as Riff Raff
- Jonathan Adams as the Narrator
- Little Nell as Columbia
- Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter
- Rayner Bourton as Rocky Horror
- Paddy O'Hagan as Eddie and Dr. Scott
Musical Crew[]
- Richard O'Brien - Composer (Music and Lyrics)
- Richard Hartley - Musical Arrangements, Keyboards
- Count Iain Blair - Guitar, Electric and Acoustic
- Dennis Cowan - Bass Guitar
- Martin Fitzgibbon - Drums
- Phil Kenzie - Sax
List of songs[]
- Science Fiction / Double Feature
- Dammit, Janet
- Over At the Frankenstein Place
- Sweet Transvestite
- Time Warp
- Sword of Damocles
- Hot Patootie
- Touch-a-Touch-a-Touch-a-Touch Me
- Once In a While
- Rose Tint My World
- I'm Going Home
- Superheroes
- Science Fiction / Double Feature (Reprise)
Missing songs[]
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