1776 (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Sometimes seen as a conservative answer to the hippie movement of the late 1960s, 1776 is a close-up vision of the days preceding the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and the behind-the-scene deals that led to this fateful moment in the history of the country. William Daniels takes the lead as John Adams and Howard Da Silva portrays a wily Benjamin Franklin to stir the Continental Congress toward approving the famous document.