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The 5th Dimension's Billy Davis Jr. and Marilyn McCoo reflect on performing at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, the subject of doc "Summer of Soul." ...
HOLLYWOOD -- Music icons Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. are back in the spotlight for all the right reasons. They're releasing their first studio album in 30 years. And, as part of The Fifth ...
The music of the Fifth Dimension has alternately been called “sunshine pop” and “psychedelic soul” with a decidedly good-time feeling.
Perhaps you know the 5th Dimension from its cover of Hair soundtrack cuts, the psych-lite medley, "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In." Or perhaps the quintet is familiar because of its Jimmy Webb ...
Right now, The 5th Dimension's founder and still-suave mellow bass, LaMonte McLemore is celebrating the 50 year milestone of what would currently be called a "mash-up"-"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine ...
The song " (Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All," written by Tony Macaulay in the early '70s might be one of the most literal song titles ever written. The hit writer suffered from jet lag ...
Florence LaRue’s 75th birthday bash, with fellow 5th Dimension members Billy Davis, Jr. and Marilyn McCoo, along with long time friend Obba Babatunde. Photo credit: Ian Foxx *A 75th Birthday ...
Florence LaRue had no interest in being a singer when she was approached about joining the 5th Dimension in 1966. She'd moved to California from her native Pennsylvania in hopes of being a movie ...
Florence LaRue was one of the singers in the pop, R&B and soul group The 5th Dimension but she’s also a musician, acted in television and the theater and has ...
Not long before the Fifth Dimension released “Up, Up and Away,” the 1967 hit that gave the group its first Top 10 hit, something shifted in the way Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. considered ...