The song’s powerful message of peace and love has endured for six decades.
In summer 1969, 300,000 people filled Harlem's Mount Morris Park over six weekends for the Harlem Cultural Festival, a free event showcasing Black music and culture. "It crossed our minds from time to ...
On April 12, 1969, The 5th Dimension garnered their eighth Billboard Top 40 hit with the medley from Broadway's HAIR: "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In." It stayed in the #1 spot for six straight weeks.
"What we were after was that Motown sound," said Florence LaRue, a founding member of the Fifth Dimension, in a telephone interview from her Los Angeles home. "All I can say is thank goodness for our ...
The 6-time Grammy winning founder of Pop-Soul legendary singing group, The 5th Dimension is keeping it fresh these days, celebrating a hit memoir and now releasing a new song he wrote titled, "Cease ...
*Today we celebrate singer Florence LaRue of The Fifth Dimension on her 76th birthday. The group, which included Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. before they left to become a duo, blessed us with ...
The classy vocal quintet has long been underrated. Fortunately, they got their flowers with Questlove's Oscar-winning doc, Summer of Soul. By Paul Grein The death on Tuesday Feb. 3 of LaMonte McLemore ...
Singer LaMonte McLemore, a founding member of vocal group The 5th Dimension, whose smooth pop and soul sounds with a touch of psychedelia brought them big hits in the 1960s and ’70s, has died. He was ...
Touring the world with the 5th Dimension, LaMonte McLemore liked to say he had a microphone in one hand and his camera in the other. Mr. McLemore, who died Feb. 3 at age 90, was best known as a ...
Singer LaMonte McLemore, a founding member of vocal group The 5th Dimension, whose smooth pop and soul sounds with a touch of psychedelia brought them big hits in the 1960s and ’70s, has died. He was ...