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 ...

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"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 ...

Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. met as members of the iconic '60s R&B/pop group The Fifth Dimension, whose hits included "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In" and "One Less Bell to Answer." Married in ...

Motown Records was a hit factory for black musicians in the early 1960s, churning out smash after smash R&B; song. So hoping to follow that same path to success, the fledgling vocal group that singer ...

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 ...

The 5th Dimension was as popular a symbol of the late 1960s and early ‘70s as peace signs and “Make Love, Not War” posters. If the vocal group’s name doesn’t ring a bell, the parade of timeless hit ...

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 ...

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. Those who played the event never ...