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The 5th Dimension
12+ albums
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The 5th Dimension is an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire also includes R&B, Soul, and Jazz, best-known during the late 1960s and 1970s for popularizing hits of songwriters like Jimmy Webb, Laura Nyro, Burt Bacharach, Ashford & Simpson, and others, and helping to popularize "flower power" music with both white and black middle-class Americans. They are best-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for popularizing the hits "Up, Up and Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "One Less Bell to Answer", "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All", and "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", as well as the eponymous 5th Dimension and The Magic Garden LP recordings. The five original members were Billy Davis, Jr., Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, Lamonte McLemore, and Ron Townson. They have recorded for several different labels over their long careers. Their first work appeared on the Soul City label, which was started by Imperial Records/United Artists Records recording artist Johnny Rivers. The group would later record for Bell/Arista Records, ABC Records, and Motown Records. Some of the songwriters popularized by The 5th Dimension later went on to careers of their own, especially Ashford & Simpson, who wrote "California Soul". The group is also notable for having more success with the songs of Laura Nyro than Nyro did herself, particularly in the cases of "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", and "Save the Country" The group also covered music by
top songs
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Let The Sunshine In (Reprise) - Remastered 2000
102,8602Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) - From the Musical "Hair"
77,2343Up, Up And Away
46,2374Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In
39,1415Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) [Remastered]
35,1886Wedding Bell Blues
34,6627One Less Bell To Answer
34,1388Wedding Bell Blues - Laura Nyro Cover
23,9479Stoned Soul Picnic
23,02510Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) - From the Musical Hair
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