(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 ...
As two-fifths of the 5th Dimension, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. helped to let the sunshine in after the darkest times of the civil rights movement. So the husband-and-wife duo, who have been ...
The 5th Dimension has been thrust into the 21st Century. Legendary pop and R&B singers Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. are breathing new life into an old Beatles classic — this go-round with an ...
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 ...
There was never any really sense of tabloid drama to the 5th Dimension, a group of clean-living show-business professionals who all seemed to like each other and to enjoy performing. But there was, at ...
"Up-Up and Away," "Stoned Soul Picnic," Wedding Bell Blues"...their iconic songs made for uplifting sounds of a generation with the medley from Broadway's HAIR, "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" being ...
They took us to a summer place and whisked us off to Shangri-La. She ushered in the Age of Aquarius and flew us up, up and away in a beautiful balloon. Baby boomer magnets The Lettermen and Florence ...
When Florence LaRue was a young girl growing up in Pennsylvania, before achieving stardom with The 5th Dimension, she was a bit shy. Fortunately, she excelled in sports and music, and that made things ...
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 ...
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 ...