First Time Hearing 5th Dimension - Aquarius Let The Sunshine In (Reaction!)

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  • @EpicFrozenMoment
    @EpicFrozenMoment Місяць тому +117

    Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis jr have just celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary!!!

    • @kenneth2875
      @kenneth2875 Місяць тому +6

      Marilyn had a singing career outside the band. Marylin even hosted the TV show Solid Gold

    • @danielmarshall7095
      @danielmarshall7095 Місяць тому +1

      I remember back in the early to mid 80's she was one of the host for Solid Gold and still had some solo albums as well.

    • @kathybwell
      @kathybwell Місяць тому

      @@kenneth2875 I remember watching Solid Gold, haven't heard that show about for years.

    • @carla68
      @carla68 Місяць тому +3

      Will you marry me, Bill? I got the wedding bell blues! 😍

    • @EpicFrozenMoment
      @EpicFrozenMoment Місяць тому +1

      Love won't carry me....

  • @EC-dz3fb
    @EC-dz3fb Місяць тому +64

    This was 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗳𝘂𝗹. You're enthusiasm is contagious and I feel 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 you liked it! ❤️‍🔥

  • @nettiemac
    @nettiemac Місяць тому +43

    That bass line in “Let the Sunshine In” is absolute FY-AH! 🔥🔥🔥

    • @TheGreatGig73
      @TheGreatGig73 Місяць тому +1

      So over looked!

    • @sukie584
      @sukie584 Місяць тому +2

      Joe Osborn of The Wrecking Crew.

    • @sollatzo
      @sollatzo Місяць тому +1

      I’m convinced the bass player has 15 fingers.

  • @user-qo9jl1sc6k
    @user-qo9jl1sc6k Місяць тому +32

    Born in 1960, so many peace and love songs. Always wanting and fantasizing of a life and world like this. It's easier for everyone to live in harmony and peace than to not. Create peace. Peace out.

  • @GaryCain-qf5vi
    @GaryCain-qf5vi Місяць тому +58

    Both songs are from the play and movie "HAIR" some of the 60's best, Peace✌️ and Love ❤️ we were gonna change the world 🌎 Woodstock, Hippies, and Love-In's, a real beautiful feeling 💙 The 5th Dimension can bring out that feeling, 1970 my 1st trip to New York City we tried to see "HAIR" but we were to young, you had to be 18 because of content and they all got naked on Stage 👀 😢 oh! well, saw the movie and later the play 😅 Peace ✌️ and Love ❤️ your 70 year old forever hippie Gary😊 Let the Sun Shine In 😂

    • @tchampagne1494
      @tchampagne1494 Місяць тому +5

      We put this play on at my high school in 1971. We were not allowed to take our clothes off at the end of the play. It was a lot of fun rehearsing these and the other songs at my home. This 70-year-old hippy is still lost in the fabulous music we had throughout our youth. You and I were born at the birth of Rock and Roll so if you are like me, the music of the following 30 years are in your bones, ingrained in your soul. The joy the music brings me, even when I am not dancing, I am dancing in my head.

    • @ruthlafler5622
      @ruthlafler5622 Місяць тому

      ​@@tchampagne1494pretty progressive that they let you do it at all! It's not just about peace and love, it's drugs, war, sexual revolution, etc. It would be a hard sell in a lot of the country now, almost 60 years later. Certainly not in Texas!

    • @polyestawyldesage504
      @polyestawyldesage504 Місяць тому +3

      It would be SO COOL to see Shon react to the movie version

    • @Danandrea919
      @Danandrea919 Місяць тому +1

      I will absolutely pay to see the movie soundtrack version!! Just tell me how and where to send the cash!! 😊

  • @gxl5892
    @gxl5892 Місяць тому +20

    Your excitement and energy is exactly how I felt as a teenager when this song was played on the radio!!!!! So cool to be excited again with you!!!!!

  • @shadow1674
    @shadow1674 Місяць тому +22

    Dude welcome to the 60s and 70s this is what we believed in that's what we believe in now❤❤❤❤❤

  • @tamaraz.5827
    @tamaraz.5827 Місяць тому +24

    1967 was the Summer of Love. By 1969 songs like this were standard. Great reaction to a great song. It was an incredible time that I wish would come back.

    • @antoniosagamuccio7370
      @antoniosagamuccio7370 Місяць тому

      Careful what you wish for. Musically, and for those fortunate enough not to be touched by the realities of those times, it was a magical and hopeful time. I would consider this track the virtual theme song for those times and those hopes. For others in America though, those times were brutal and quite often deadly. My "woke" memories start in 63 with the 16th Street bombing and the Kennedy assassination. Throughout the 60's the authorities declared open season on protesters with anything from beatings and firehoses to shootings and lynchings.

  • @kennbicknell5492
    @kennbicknell5492 Місяць тому +26

    *ICONIC song because THIS captured THE MOMENT! They were fabulous and the late '60s were full of tension but also a lot of hope. Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. Have incredible voices still!*

  • @dagmar.6954
    @dagmar.6954 Місяць тому +40

    The 5th Dimension had so many great hits in the 60's-70's. "Go Where You Wanna Go", "Up, Up & Away", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Sweet Blindness", "Wedding Bell Blues", "California Soul", "Workin' On A Groovy Thing", "One Less Bell To Answer", "Never My Love", "(Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep at All", "If I Could Reach You", "Love's Lines, Angles & Rhymes", "Living Together, Growing Together" etc.

    • @subwaygoddess1
      @subwaygoddess1 Місяць тому

      All that!

    • @subwaygoddess1
      @subwaygoddess1 Місяць тому

      You brought tears to my eyes, I'm so happy you love this!! This song is from the Broadway show, "Hair." My favorite by them is Stoned Soul Picnic, bit all the recommendations are great! You can't go wrong with the Fifth Dimension!

  • @dawngipe6324
    @dawngipe6324 Місяць тому +16

    This was in the movie Hair...awesome movie based on Vietnam draft ditchers basically and meet a guy who is going to war...it's actually a musical too...soundtrack has lots of awesome songs from that time period...

  • @bobbiecrawford3245
    @bobbiecrawford3245 Місяць тому +18

    We really need this right now in this time. Check out history of our time, never have we had a time of peace. Damn wouldn’t that be great

  • @dillodefense
    @dillodefense Місяць тому +19

    Marilyn McCoo is a beautiful, incredily talented singer.

  • @davidhumiston6500
    @davidhumiston6500 Місяць тому +16

    It was in the original movie HAIR.. from the 60s or 70s

  • @pamabernathy8728
    @pamabernathy8728 Місяць тому +10

    Oh, my, music I grew up to! I turned 13 years old in 1969.
    LOVE The 5th Dimension!
    Great music, great performers, fantastic energy!!!

  • @rayniecox7683
    @rayniecox7683 Місяць тому +4

    We are now in "The Age of Aquarius ", at the very beginning and the next 30 years we should have a lot of growth in that direction. Hard to believe, I know but I'm 70 and have been waiting a long time. I still have hope we can prove we're worth it!😎😎😎😎

  • @antoinetteciserella
    @antoinetteciserella Місяць тому +8

    Mom Got the album soundtrack Musical Hair when I was a kid. The volume was turned up and the whole family knew every word. We danced and sang to this through the good and bad times of that period in time. Thanks for your reaction. It was right on! This music just hits your soul.
    I also got to see the 5th Dimension perform in concert in the 80s. They did all the favorites and the crowd knew every song. Peace ✌

  • @kathleenmurphy6220
    @kathleenmurphy6220 Місяць тому +5

    I was born in the late 1950’s. This song is truly timeless. May the message continue on…💚

  • @msfoodiediva
    @msfoodiediva Місяць тому +5

    Their harmonies

  • @scottmatzeder9162
    @scottmatzeder9162 Місяць тому +5

    These are some of the very Best vocals and harmonies in all of Music and over all Genres!

  • @kimmypooh5527
    @kimmypooh5527 29 днів тому +2

    As a 5 year old I would play this song over and over on my mom’s stereo. Thank goodness my Mom encouraged my love for music and forgave me for leaving scratches on her LP’s!

  • @cyndianderson7056
    @cyndianderson7056 Місяць тому +3

    My mom LOVED the Fifth Dimension. I grew up listening to this, and since I am an Aquarius I thought this was so cool. Lol.

  • @TheDivayenta
    @TheDivayenta Місяць тому +5

    These songs are from the musical “ Hair” which was the first Broadway rock musical.

  • @margiewilson4324
    @margiewilson4324 Місяць тому +5

    I love this song. And it makes me cry for what we are now.

  • @ursulabklyn_mia6148
    @ursulabklyn_mia6148 Місяць тому +2

    The ladies have such classic beauty they look like pageant contestants. Especially Marilyn Mccoo.

  • @user-wc9pe9pu2c
    @user-wc9pe9pu2c Місяць тому +3

    True classic been singing this song for 50 years or so

  • @Skeeter123
    @Skeeter123 Місяць тому +3

    The 5th Dimension had many great songs 🎵 ❤ They were my 1st concert when I was 18 in 1971. Thnx for reacting to this song.

  • @ricardohernandez2234
    @ricardohernandez2234 Місяць тому +1

    Great reaction! You are absolutely right in that they told Billy Davis Jr. to just go out and do his thing at the end of the song. The 5th Dimension had many hits and the ones where Marilyn McCoo took lead are simply spectacular because she has one of the greatest voices ever. She and Billy are a married couple who have kept performing this day. I promise your day will also be made if you listen to their chart-topping duet, You Don’t Have To Be A Star.

  • @jamessugg7061
    @jamessugg7061 Місяць тому +2

    Music from the 60's and 70's is timeless and can enlighten all generations!

  • @TroysPop
    @TroysPop Місяць тому +2

    I grew up listening to this group and I loved them.

  • @TheToscanaMan
    @TheToscanaMan Місяць тому +1

    I fell in love with these guys once I saw them live in the 60's. Was able to get Marilyn and Billy's autographs. Please do more of their music. ☮😎

  • @Festus171
    @Festus171 Місяць тому +2

    I was a kid when this was released, and it played on the radio a lot! I loved it! It always brings me back to some great childhood memories.

  • @StevenW1958
    @StevenW1958 Місяць тому +2

    Hey Shon, I was 10 years old when this song was released in 1969. I loved this song, but I loved the group and had me a big crush on the beautiful Marilyn McCoo, the tall lead singer, since I was 8 years old.

  • @bashartrefi
    @bashartrefi Місяць тому +1

    simply a masterpiece! I'm a hippie inside and this is like an anthem to me.
    When I first listened to it in the 90s when I was discovering music and the world I couldn't believe what I was hearing, they are all great and the harmonies are insane.

  • @debrafischer807
    @debrafischer807 Місяць тому +1

    I was a teenager when the 5th Dimension were popular. It was a great time to be a teen. Music was awesome back then. Even though the times were tough with the unrest.

  • @annapavlakis7626
    @annapavlakis7626 Місяць тому +1

    It's been so long since I've heard this song, and listening to this now is giving me literal chills, especially as we are now actually IN the Age of Aquarius, and I absolutely believe we are moving into the New Earth, despite how chaotic things seem. It's the chaos of change, and nothing can stop it. What a great reaction. Thank you for reminding me of this super high-vibrational song! I need to start listening to this regularly! Open up your heart and let the Sun shine in! 🌍🌈🌛🌞🌠☮♒❤

  • @rk41gator
    @rk41gator 27 днів тому

    LOVE, Love, love the 5th Dimension. They really brought together everyone. Their voices combine to feel like good home cookin'

  • @kevinmorrell4155
    @kevinmorrell4155 Місяць тому +2

    Amazing tune! Once you hear it, it’s stays in your head forever.

  • @JaquelineGoodspeed
    @JaquelineGoodspeed Місяць тому +1

    Everyone who reacts to this, just absolutely love ❤️ it. How can you not?!!! I so remember this playing on the radio as a very young child. It made a difference in my being then and even now when i hear it.

  • @rayfaircloth8253
    @rayfaircloth8253 Місяць тому +3

    Another beautiful song by them is "Up, Up, and Away"

  • @myownchannel247
    @myownchannel247 Місяць тому +2

    It’s like a vitamin B shot for the soul ✨

  • @dougwill8850
    @dougwill8850 Місяць тому

    Beautiful. Born in 1966 as an Aquariun. I've always loved this song/ group. They are all such special people.

  • @AgingDrummerBoy-ly1js
    @AgingDrummerBoy-ly1js Місяць тому +3

    The fifth dimension live video versions are insanely good! Sounds of my childhood are always good to hear! Thanks! ✌️❤️🤟🥁

  • @36karpatoruski
    @36karpatoruski Місяць тому +2

    Soul meets hippiedom. Let it shine!

  • @rk41gator
    @rk41gator 27 днів тому

    The way you describe the soulful way he sings against the chorus is so right. So beautiful. Yes, like a gospel preached. Sometimes Phil Collins taps into that vibe and why he was so popular.
    Love how happy you are with this positive music. Peace Out!

  • @kenpatton8761
    @kenpatton8761 Місяць тому +1

    Another great song performed with one of the best house bands in the business, the “Wrecking Crew”. Cheers

  • @reneeheknowsmyname6771
    @reneeheknowsmyname6771 Місяць тому

    I was born in the age of Aquarius, 55 years...........young...lol...!! Growing up during that time, and every time I heard this beautiful song. It always touched my heart!!! My eyes always filled up with joyful tears!!
    Such a beautiful song!!

  • @johninguanti2051
    @johninguanti2051 Місяць тому

    Growing in the 60’s and being in my teens, this was our music. Peace and Loving…Music with meaning and feelings. ❤️

  • @Bob-yy5wn
    @Bob-yy5wn Місяць тому

    Have fun with these beautiful people with live performances as much as possible to experience that 60's-70's vibe. "Stoned Soul Picnic" and "Working On A Groovy Thing" are great time pieces.

  • @einahsirro1488
    @einahsirro1488 3 дні тому

    It's so much fun watching you experience my childhood! Welcome to my sepia-tinted memories!

  • @jamiepage9046
    @jamiepage9046 Місяць тому +2

    You are such an old soul! Love it and this song always brings a few tears wishing this was our world ❤

  • @stevebendel
    @stevebendel Місяць тому

    We sang Aquarius I my high school choir the audiences loved it. Now I hear this combo and it heals my soul every time

  • @theadviser123
    @theadviser123 29 днів тому

    I love what a beautiful, knowledgeable, wise and loving person you are! That's why I watch you.
    You have soul.

  • @jimclifford1241
    @jimclifford1241 Місяць тому

    Your spirit and enthusiasm is infectious and wonderful. Thank you for being her and sharing it with everyone.

  • @germankitty
    @germankitty Місяць тому

    "Hair" was an absolute sensation when it premiered in the late 60s. This song mash-up brackets the whole play -- first, and last song combined. Takes me right back to my early teenage years. 🙂 Great reaction, too!

  • @ICTS22
    @ICTS22 Місяць тому +8

    Until a few years ago I had no idea that they were black singers. I always thought they were white lol

    • @chicotime69
      @chicotime69 Місяць тому

      They are just singers!!!!! WHY do people always have to bring skin colour into EVERYTHING????

  • @clawsv66
    @clawsv66 Місяць тому

    As a kid in the 70s, my mom played this song alot. She had the 45. ❤ this song.

  • @jimestus7506
    @jimestus7506 Місяць тому

    I'm so happy you played/reacted to this song. I was a about six years old when this song released, and I always loved this 5th Dimension song, and other. Thank you Shon!

  • @petestottsberry1133
    @petestottsberry1133 Місяць тому

    I was 11 years old when this hit. Momma would always crank it up on the old Philco Harmonic console entertainment center and rock it out!! Good times!! She gone now…but I got memories!! 😎

  • @alicecobb7763
    @alicecobb7763 Місяць тому

    It is so refreshing to see, and know that young people appreciate, and enjoy the music from yester- years.... Thank you for your reactions.....
    Cheerio from Down Under 🌺

  • @pamstuckey8349
    @pamstuckey8349 Місяць тому

    Thank you for listening to this song. A song I heard so many times when I was young. So happy you enjoyed tis and truly appreciated the energy it always brings

  • @auburnkim1989
    @auburnkim1989 Місяць тому +1

    Your reaction made me smile! Now, I gotta go find my Hair CD.

  • @vickiewiseman7112
    @vickiewiseman7112 Місяць тому

    My first concert in Raleigh NC many many years ago! Memories! ❤❤

  • @gizmo5925
    @gizmo5925 Місяць тому

    These two songs came from a revolutionary Broadway musical called "Hair." A couple other groups recorded other songs from the musical that became hits ("Hair" by the Cowsills, and "Easy to Be Hard" by Three Dog Night), but none was as big a hit as this one. I did hear an interview with one of the band members where, for "Let the Sunshine in," they told Billy Davis, Jr "Take us to church."
    The 5th Dimension had many hits: "Up, Up and Away" (the first pop 45 rpm record I ever bought), "Wedding Bell Blues," "Stone Soul Picnic," "one Less Bell to Answer" are some to choose from.

  • @levaulafaafuata7064
    @levaulafaafuata7064 Місяць тому

    😃 Yup, I got brought up in this era. Man, it's been ages since I've heard these songs.
    You just know how the black folk be like in those days in church, gospel singing. Preaching while singing.
    Thank you Shon.

  • @polyestawyldesage504
    @polyestawyldesage504 Місяць тому

    Glad you reacted to this. One of the reasons I love your reactions is your positive vibes and your sunny smile, so this was a PERFECT video for you

  • @kimmycook2698
    @kimmycook2698 Місяць тому

    I remember my mom had this album soundtrack from the movie Hair...always loved this song.

  • @destinyreelly2974
    @destinyreelly2974 Місяць тому

    This song reminds me of my childhood. And that transition. Glorious. ❤❤❤

  • @mickeyhank
    @mickeyhank Місяць тому

    When I saw you reacted to this, I was excited. A match made in heaven! When I was nine, this was my favorite song. I would sing it around the house. You have great taste, bro. Seeing you enjoy this, lifted my spirits and energy. By the Fifth Dimension also try “Wedding Bell Blues“ and for high energy,, “Puppet Man”.

  • @tjrivers
    @tjrivers Місяць тому

    As always, beautiful! Many of us grew up discovering astrology…and this song was on it! This was a huge hit on the charts for months! ❤

  • @4everblackmore
    @4everblackmore Місяць тому

    Yes this was beautiful!!..and so was your reaction!🤗
    I was in 8th grade when this song came out in the late ‘60s, and am still lovin’ it today.
    Thanks for the memory.❤️

  • @WesleyArtrip
    @WesleyArtrip 8 днів тому

    Your positive energy went hand in hand with the video..thumbs up!😊

  • @maine420grow8
    @maine420grow8 Місяць тому

    I love these guys. Their cover of Wedding Bell Blues is one of my favorite songs.

  • @dgator3599
    @dgator3599 Місяць тому

    They were awesome and Marilyn and Billy went on to have their own Prime Time TV variety show. I watched it every week. I was in elementary school at the time.

  • @sharonsnail2954
    @sharonsnail2954 Місяць тому +1

    Shon: In the spirit of the song "Peace, Man"

  • @glenn-jn8gy
    @glenn-jn8gy Місяць тому

    What a beautiful group they were. We could use a lot more of this today.

  • @soniamoul6355
    @soniamoul6355 26 днів тому

    Love watching you enjoying different music. You’re an amazing young man. ☮️💞🙏

  • @bobsylvester88
    @bobsylvester88 Місяць тому

    Hey Shon I’m old as hell but imagine being six years old and watching this on the TV! I’ve always liked this song. 🎶

  • @Shaman-py4sw
    @Shaman-py4sw 28 днів тому

    One of the best pieces of music ever to be put together, the 2nd part feels to me like what music would sound like and be played in the afterlife

  • @TheGreatGig73
    @TheGreatGig73 Місяць тому +1

    If this song doesn't lift your spirits, you are flat lined!

  • @rosiekitties
    @rosiekitties Місяць тому

    iam glad i lived in the time when this song was popular life was great i miss it....

  • @PaulB-it4jw
    @PaulB-it4jw Місяць тому

    Such is the power of music, and Shonrah’s feelin’ it! 💜🇦🇺

  • @cindysimpson1046
    @cindysimpson1046 Місяць тому

    One of the best feel good playlist songs ever! Will start your day! ❤

  • @Hisword100
    @Hisword100 Місяць тому

    This song was in the Broadway play Hair. It came to the Aquarius theatre in the late 60’s. In the middle of it this parachute came down on all the actors on the stage and when they lifted it they were all naked. Shocker. Then the police came up the aisle saying this a raid which terrified me. But it was just part of the production. But yes this song matched the most fun time in my life. Thanks for the memories.

  • @michaelrowsey768
    @michaelrowsey768 Місяць тому

    One of my favorites growing up. Love these guys.

  • @scotties.3414
    @scotties.3414 Місяць тому

    Hey shirtless wonder Shon! Your fro is looking mighty mighty along with that thousand megawatt smile😁 I can easily see you up on that stage giving us some powerful Aquarian vibes.❤ Fifth Dimension brought us lots of hits, including ballads like One Less Bell to Answer. and Last Night I Didn't Get to Sleep at All.

  • @dianenc
    @dianenc Місяць тому

    The five original members were Lamonte McLemore, Marilyn McCoo, Florence LaRue, Ronald Townson, and Billy Davis, Jr. In 1975, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. left the group to form their own collective & individual projects. (They even had their own television show!) As others have posted, they're still married today, and I believe still perform!

  • @trevortamboline279
    @trevortamboline279 Місяць тому +1

    You get it! Love you, bro.

  • @jannetkoolman5645
    @jannetkoolman5645 Місяць тому

    This is from the musical Hair. Let the Sunshine In is the final song, and I dare you not to cry when you hear and see it

  • @HHIngo
    @HHIngo Місяць тому +3

    Decades ago I went to visit my US relatives in San Francisco. I didn't know that they all were hippies. It was like on another planet. Now I'm an old man and since April weed is legal in Germany, ha ha. Maybe I shoukd smoke and hear this kind of music. Greetings from Germany!

    • @TheDivayenta
      @TheDivayenta Місяць тому +1

      We took my German friends to the Haight-Ashbury in the 60’s. They thought they were in the American version of Oberammergau and the Passion Plays! “ Ach kuck mal an den heiligen Jesus und Maria!” 😂

    • @shirleytamburano6256
      @shirleytamburano6256 Місяць тому

      Just wondering, some of the pot stores here in Canada deliver, do you have that too? We love it! lol

  • @user-jn6bi7mn4m
    @user-jn6bi7mn4m Місяць тому

    You're a very positive, up person. I really like your vibe!! This was a very hot song, in its day!
    We should let the Son shine in, everyday!!

  • @Brett33
    @Brett33 Місяць тому

    I have heard the song many times, never knew what the singers looked like until now .

  • @dcg4mn
    @dcg4mn Місяць тому

    You’d really dig the musical this comes from “Hair”. It began at NY’s Public Theater before moving to Broadway and the world.
    50th anniversary summer 2018 the Public Theater revived it for their annual Shakespeare in the (Central) Park festival. I saw it with a friend who’s a total Broadway musical specialist (I am not)😉 we both loved it, he said it was the best musical he’d ever seen 😯
    You’ll dig the movie version it’s got a great cast including the beloved Beverly D’Angelo and recently passed (motorcycle accident) Treat Williams. Same director as Amadeus, choreographer Twyla Tharp.

  • @anti7928
    @anti7928 Місяць тому

    This song just sounds so awesome to my ears..

  • @angelado3
    @angelado3 Місяць тому

    LOVEEEEEEEEE this song and this group !

  • @dianeg2377
    @dianeg2377 Місяць тому

    There's so much to this song...... go to ^Hair let the sunshine in^ in youtube . It always brings tears. Or even watch the whole film that Aquarius and let the sunshine are from
    PS love the Channel

  • @warrenhughes911
    @warrenhughes911 Місяць тому +1

    Great reaction again..
    Yessir..
    React to..Bob Dylan..
    Hurricane or any of his Classics..

  • @cindydegraaff5083
    @cindydegraaff5083 Місяць тому +1

    You have such great reactions!

  • @UncleCharlie111x2
    @UncleCharlie111x2 Місяць тому

    I can't help but smile watching this! Fantastic!

  • @pvdogs2
    @pvdogs2 Місяць тому

    This/these songs were written for the musical 'Hair'.