Hair

Graham wrote it; it was never a single but became one of his most popular compositions with fans. Per Wikipedia's account of a 1995 interview that we could not open, Graham said he built it around the bassline that opens the track and that people repeatedly asked whether his big afro was real, which inspired it. A Bonedo transcription describes the riff as E minor at 79 bpm, slap bass with hammer-ons, slides and grace notes, in an eight-bar intro of four two-bar phrases, and calls it a Graham superhit. An unsourced Wikipedia note says the original cassette put it at the start of side B.

Chaka Khan covered it, as track 12 (5:45) on Come 2 My House, released on July 21, 1998 on NPG Records, co-produced by Prince; the album reached 49 on the R&B and hip-hop chart. A Wolfgang's Vault listing has an undated concert recording of about six minutes. We found no verified samples or setlist counts, and our upload is probably the 1974 studio track.