| LC control no. | n 91040746 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rado, James |
| Variant(s) | Radomski, James Alexander, 1932-2022 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Irondequoit (N.Y.) Washington (D.C.) |
| Birth date | 1932-01-23 |
| Death date | 2022-06-21 |
| Place of birth | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Musical theater |
| Profession or occupation | Composers Lyricists Librettists Actors Dramatists |
| Found in | Horn, B.L. The age of Hair, c1991: CIP introd. (James Rado) LC data base, 4-25-91 (hdg.: Rado, James) ASCAP, 4th ed. (Radomski, James (James Rado); b. Jan. 23, 1942; composer, author) Green, S. Enc. of the musical theatre, c1976 (Rado, James; b. Jan. 23, 1939, Los Angeles, Calif.; lyricist, librettist, actor) Contemp. authors: v. 105 (Rado, James; original surname, Radomski; b. Jan. 23, 1939, Los Angeles, Calif.; librettist, lyricist, and composer) U.S. copyright file, Jan. 18, 2001 (Rado, James; Rado, James, 1932- ; Radomski, James) Bio. and geneal. master index on GaleNet, Jan. 18, 2001 (Rado, James (6 entries); Rado, James, 1932- (2); Rado, James, 1939- (2)) Wikipedia, July 5, 2019 (James Rado; born James Alexander Radomski, January 23, 1932, Los Angeles, California; American actor, playwright, director, writer, and composer, best known as the co-author, along with Gerome Ragni, of the 1967 musical Hair; raised in Rochester, New York and Washington, D.C.) FamilySearch.org, July 5, 2019: United States Census, 1940; Irondequoit Town, Monroe County, New York, enumeration district 38 (James Radomski; age 8 as of April 9; born California) Washington post WWW site, viewed June 24, 2022 (in obituary dated June 22, 2022: James Rado, who gave voice to the Age of Aquarius as the co-creator of "Hair", died June 21 at a Manhattan hospital. He was 90. James Alexander Radomski was born Jan. 23, 1932 in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice Beach. Mr. Rado, who later shortened his last name, studied at Catholic University and the University of Maryland, from which he graduated in 1954) |
| Not found in | Enc. of pop. mus., 3rd ed.; Gänzl, K. The enc. of the musical theatre, 1994; Int. ww in mus. Vol. 2, Pop. mus., 1st ed. |
| Associated language | eng |
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