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 ...
In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Here we have a ...
"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 ...
1 Exclusive: Celia Berk to Release New Winter EP; Watch New Lyric Video "Up-Up and Away," "Stoned Soul Picnic," Wedding Bell Blues"...their iconic songs made for uplifting sounds of a generation with ...
Something dawned on me recently when I heard my radio’s oldies station sing, “This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.” The Fifth Dimension released that song in the year I left my teens, the year ...
*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 ...
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 each ...
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 ...
The Fifth Dimension today (clockwise from bottom): Florence LaRue, Floyd Smith, Leonard Tucker, Sidney Jacobs, and Patrice Morris Credit: Photo by Darren Stone From ramshackle horse and buggy wagons ...
(CBS11) - While driving around this weekend, I was listening to SIRIUS XM 60's On 6 and heard a song that took me back nearly 50 years ago and triggered some good memories. But before that... For ...