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5th Dimension: The Very Best of the 5th Dimension

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Artist: 5th dimension
Title: The very best of the 5th dimension
Released: 1999.01.01
Label: BMG Music
Time: 71:02
Producer(s):
Appears with:
Category: Soul
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD - regular
Purchase date:  2000.05.09
Price in €: 7,27
Web address: www.bmg.com

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[1] Up, Up And Away (Webb) - 2:39
[2] Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (MacDermot/Rado/Ragni) - 4:48
[3] Stoned Soul Picnic (Nyro) - 3:28
[4] Wedding Bell Blues (Nyro) - 2:43
[5] Workin' On A Groovy Thing (Atkins/Sedaka) - 3:11
[6] (Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All (MacAulay) - 3:10
[7] Love's Lines, Angels And Rhymes (Joyce) - 4:10
[8] One Less Bell To Answer (Bacharach/David) - 3:30
[9] Another Day, Another Heartache (Barri/Sloan) - 2:33
[10] Paper Cup (Webb) - 2:43
[11] California Soul (Ashford/Simpson) - 3:13
[12] Carpet Man (Webb) - 3:06
[13] Living Together, Growing Together (Bacharach/David) - 3:50
[14] If I Could Reach You (McNeill) - 3:09
[15] Go Where You Wanna Go (Phillips) - 2:24
[16] Sweet Blindness (Nyro) - 3:25
[17] Puppet Man (Greenfield/Sedaka) - 2:58
[18] Save The Country (Nyro) - 2:39
[19] On The Beach (McNeill) - 3:30
[20] Blowing Away (Nyro) - 2:32
[21] Ashes To Ashes (Lambert/Potter) - 3:30
[22] Girl's Song (Webb) - 3:41

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BILLY DAVIES Jr. - Vocals
FLORENCE LARUE - Vocals
MARILYN MCCOO - Vocals
LAMONTE MCLEMORE - Vocals
RON TOWNSON - Vocals

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Other than a few goodies led by Marilyn McCoo ("One Less Bell," "Working on a Groovy Thing," and "Wedding Bell Blues"), the years haven't been kind to the Fifth Dimension's music. They had soulful singers, especially McCoo and Billy Davis, but was designated pop and recorded elevator music with vocals. Even Laura Nyro's "Stone Soul Picnic" defies description. Not many (especially in the U.S.) could relate to "surrey on down to a stone soul picnic." While very successful for a while, tracks like "Go Where You Wanna Go" and others have become painful exercises in listening.

Andrew Hamilton, All-Music Guide



The subtitle on this anthology is correct: This is truly the definitive collection of the 5th Dimension's music, including all the hits and most of the album cuts that anyone could want. The 20-bit digital mastering provides a crisp, bright audio experience, and the joyous harmonies bring back the positive side of the late '60s/early '70s era in which the songs were recorded. The megahits are all here: Jimmy Webb's "Up Up and Away," Laura Nyro's "Stoned Soul Picnic" and "Wedding Bell Blues," the Bacharach-David opus "One Less Bell to Answer," the beautiful "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All" and the Grammy-winning number one smash from the spring of 1969, "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" from Hair. There are not-quite-Top-Ten hits like "Sweet Blindness," "Go Where You Wanna Go," "California Soul," "Workin' on a Groovy Thing," "Blowing Away," "Save the Country" and "Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes." What a run this quintet had on the pop charts from 1967 to 1972. This two-disc set successfully makes the case for the 5th Dimension to be remembered among the finest purveyors of pop song vocal harmony in the rock era. Baby Boomers will delight at the memories this collection conjures up and will find surprises they may have forgotten or never known: "Paper Cup," "Carpet Man," "Puppet Man," "Light Sings" and the group's medley of "The Declaration/A Change Is Gonna Come/People Gotta Be Free." Listening to Up Up and Away: The Definitive Collection is a great antidote for the blues, lifting the listener up with a smile and reminding those who may have forgotten that there once was a time when it seemed that music really could bring us all together.

Jim Newsom

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