The Best! And Florence LaRue ( shorter lady/petite ) 💝 Steps Out of her Champagne Soul for a second, "Rips" it on The "Street" Soul and Screams: "OW"!!! 👄 ~ Brings UP The Song "OW"!!! ~ 👄 💘🥳💕 Their Vocals, Style, Everything ~ It Doesn't Get Any Better ~ So Brilliantly Unique ~ Cool Cut Class~! P.S. But, don't "go" by me ~ I Love 'Em ~ The Kicker: Above & Beyond
One of their greats, penned by Laura Nyro. I had such a crush on Marilyn McCoo when I was a kid. She is so beautiful and so is Florence. Almost 45 years have passed since then. Billy Davis is a very lucky man, both he and Marilyn have been married for a little over 50 years.
I don't blame you for having a crush on Marilyn. I had a thing for her back then and today, watching this group by the magic of UA-cam I the fire comes back. A class act.
This is one of the most "energetic" live performances I have ever seen from the 5th Dimension. The clothes and the choreography reflect the times (1968) but their performance is timeless.
The 60s dancing is so joyful and beautiful . My older brother had the LP this was off i used to love it as a kid and still do, what a group they were, fabulous!
Come on guys, this was the 60s where outfits were outta this world! These fit right in with the times and actually looked conservative compared to other groups! lol
There's Marilyn wearing her go-go boots. My family moved from the city to a rural school district in "68" and all the kids was like "What are you wearing?" My go-go boots you hicks! I wanted to look like Marilyn. She was my favorite singer. I was in the fourth grade. White and loving the 5th dimension. I didn't know anything about racism. Heck my first grade teacher, Miss Patton, was a black lady. I loved her! All I knew was this was great music! LOL!!!! Still is.
I remember they brought that style marilyn has on in the 8os iwas in my 20 s tall slim too it dosnt look good on every one it i ihope it dosnt come back ever tho
The 5th Dimension...NO one could sing this like Marilyn...The TOP class act above all the others...I can listen to these songs for hours...and HAVE for over 50 years
This, has to be one of the best ,highly produced " Live" chart performances on the Tube. The harmonies and vocals are just spot On. This, group is Flawless.When arrangements meant something. Can ,watch a thousand times easily...The real deal.Flying w/ Flo.-Thanks...
A beautiful song and such a great live performance with a really good band arrangement! I think it’s so important to credit the brilliant genius composer of the song, the late great Laura Nyro. She wrote many of the fifth dimension top hits, and Laura put out a few albums with her back up vocal group called LaBelle. that vocal group was led by Patti LaBelle, who obviously went onto great fame in the music world.
They are doing this live! That isn't readily apparent because they are so smooth in their transitions and it was common to lip synch on TV shows of the time. Outstanding!
My favorite of their performances of Stoned Soul Picnic; although I did like the slow surry they did in the 70s. But in this performance you can tell this is one of their favorites at the time.
@@johnharvey1903 Indeed! You hear Florence scream "OW" when the Song breaks into High Tempo! Awesome Vocals, Beauty All Around, Talent, Energy, Rhythm, Groove, Harmony, and The Outfits, UNIQUE as all Get Owt! OW! Loved them! They Had It All, ROCKED IT!
They harmonize perfectly The Outfits was just stunning I loved everything about the 5th Dimension! That was a singing group I am so happy to have heard them as I was growing up, real singing!
Oh my gosh, I just love these guys. Marilyn McCoo and Florence LaRue are so great! And I just love Billy Davis Jr., so powerful. Lamonte McLemore, who brought everybody together, and Ron Townson round out the group very well. So much fun to watch them!
I was in like the 4th Grade when this fine group came to be. IMO- I give these people as much weight as The Beatles or Jimi Hendrix. And of course Marilyn McKoo was as gorgeous as they will ever come.
And Florence LaRue ( shorter lady/petite ) 💝 Steps Out of her Champagne Soul for a second, "Rips" it on The "Street" Soul and Screams: "OW"!!! 👄 ~Brings UP The Song "OW"!!! ~ 💘🥳💕 Their Vocals, Style, Everything ~ It Doesn't Get Any Better ~ So Brilliantly Unique ~ Cool Cut Class Baby ~! P.S. But, don't "go" by me ~ I Love 'Em ~ The Kicker: Above & Beyond
The funny thing is that...I remember the "lyrics", harmonies....EVERYTHING.... yep!!! I WAS SINGING THE LYRICS ALL 😒😒WRONG! 🙁😁🌞🌞🌞 i am happy they're still making beautiful in 2022-"UNSUNG"
Love it hadn’t heard that in a while How I wish music today could make me feel the way the way the music of old still make feel . And I really like rap b/c it is poetry but the feeling isn’t the same
![The 5th Dimension • “Carpet Man/Stoned Soul Picnic/Up Up And Away” • 1968 [RITY Archive]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YJc45ev6Qfw/mqdefault.jpg)
Back when Hi Karati was the cologne, towels came in boxes of Breeze Detergent, Coke came in glass bottles and my Uncle returned home from Vietnam.
Their music was called “champagne soul”. I grew up hearing this music and I still love it today! The 5th Dimension had class and were very talented.
Yep I agree, very classy, definitely had soul, harmony and melody!!
THIS WAS CALLED THE SHIT THE JAM A HIT SOUL MUSIC BLACK MUSIC ......UNTIL ALLOW NEXT TOO PAT BOONE
The Best! And Florence LaRue ( shorter lady/petite ) 💝 Steps Out of her Champagne Soul for a second, "Rips" it on The "Street" Soul and Screams: "OW"!!! 👄 ~ Brings UP The Song "OW"!!! ~ 👄 💘🥳💕 Their Vocals, Style, Everything ~ It Doesn't Get Any Better ~ So Brilliantly Unique ~ Cool Cut Class~! P.S. But, don't "go" by me ~ I Love 'Em ~ The Kicker: Above & Beyond
Me too I heard most of these oldies when I was seven and eight years old and up on 57 now just turned it
They wore the GREATEST outfits!!!
No autotune, no lip syncing, no nudity.........just PURE UNADULTERATED TALENT!!!
The blue is esquisite💙💙💙💙
They make it look easy. It's not. What great voices they all had. And Marilyn.....well, just stunningly beautiful.
Florence is beautiful too
Gorgeous ladies but let me tell ya the dudes in this group are overlooked and they rock.
@@victorsforza5578 A great looking group with incredible lungs all round!
You are a great singer too TOM
What makes this even more amazing is that this is a live performance. Thanks for posting.
You can even hear the mic test at the beginning
Beautiful song when people had talent, class and loved the art of making music.
I loved that bridge and the chord progressions. Thanks Laura Nyro and Fifth Dimension
One of their greats, penned by Laura Nyro. I had such a crush on Marilyn McCoo when I was a kid. She is so beautiful and so is Florence. Almost 45 years have passed since then. Billy Davis is a very lucky man, both he and Marilyn have been married for a little over 50 years.
I don't blame you for having a crush on Marilyn. I had a thing for her back then and today, watching this group by the magic of UA-cam I the fire comes back. A class act.
Marylyn so beautiful.
Now, THIS was music! I love the 5th Dimension! Marilyn, Florence, Billy, Ron and Lamonte.
This is one of the most "energetic" live performances I have ever seen from the 5th Dimension. The clothes and the choreography reflect the times (1968) but their performance is timeless.
This was done live and compares to studio production quite well.Florence & Marilyn just so great together.
Yep, you can hear the mike....sometimes back in the day when it was not live they would actually tell you.
Live vocals with a live orchestra. 👌😊
Typical Frank Sinatra ✔
Live! Dynamite!
The 60s dancing is so joyful and beautiful . My older brother had the LP this was off i used to love it as a kid and still do, what a group they were, fabulous!
Come on guys, this was the 60s where outfits were outta this world! These fit right in with the times and actually looked conservative compared to other groups! lol
true that
I am posting from the past, no profanity, no disrespect, no excuses, no blame, 5D, so nice to see respect, love, etc. AWESOME.
What a great performance. Nothing like the CLASSICS. 60'S - 80'S was the best era of music Ever, by far.
Glad SOMEBODY found and captured this one. A real gem of a clip.😊😊.
Written and composed by 19 year old Laura Nyro.
There's Marilyn wearing her go-go boots. My family moved from the city to a rural school district in "68" and all the kids was like "What are you wearing?" My go-go boots you hicks! I wanted to look like Marilyn. She was my favorite singer. I was in the fourth grade. White and loving the 5th dimension. I didn't know anything about racism. Heck my first grade teacher, Miss Patton, was a black lady. I loved her! All I knew was this was great music! LOL!!!! Still is.
By the way I wore this record out! I had every new song that came out at the time. All '45s.
@@daijahvue - We were lucky to grow up with this music. I think it did much to quell racism 👍🎼
@@jamescalifornia2964 Agree
I remember they brought that style marilyn has on in the 8os iwas in my 20 s tall slim too it dosnt look good on every one it i ihope it dosnt come back ever tho
there's a time and place for go-go boots --- and 4th grade math class is not it!! haha!!
A live performance of the 5th Dimension! Thank you for posting!
Oh my God...
Those outfits, dance moves, brilliant singing, what is not to love about the 5th Demension. 🌞🌞🌞
This brings me back and conjures up something comfortable in me that I haven't felt since childhood.
my local grocery store HEB (texas) played this over speakers this morning. I grew up to this, good stuff
Great composition by Laura Nyro, beautiful vocals by the 5th Dimension, classic and cool Mod outfits and dancing! Pure '60s timeless cool
They were the best and still sound timeless all these decade later. Loved them all my life.
Thanks for sharing!! I love the 5th Dimension. They are attractive, elegant and very talented. : )
beautiful people; beautiful voices!
The 5th Dimension...NO one could sing this like Marilyn...The TOP class act above all the others...I can listen to these songs for hours...and HAVE for over 50 years
This, has to be one of the best ,highly produced " Live" chart performances on the Tube. The harmonies and vocals are just spot On. This, group is Flawless.When arrangements meant something. Can ,watch a thousand times easily...The real deal.Flying w/ Flo.-Thanks...
That harmony!!!!! I'm loving these videos. Great compilation!
Another phenomenal song written by the great Laura Nyro!
music was so simple back then....refreshing.
ain't nothing simple 'bout those harmonies
The best group of all time!!!! Great live singing!!!
59 yrs old and thinking wtf happened to music
The Fifth Dimension’s live performance on the Andy Williams Show of “One Less Bell To Answer” is mesmerizing and legendary.
I like the music arrangement on this very nice and sultry rip laura nyro
A beautiful song and such a great live performance with a really good band arrangement! I think it’s so important to credit the brilliant genius composer of the song, the late great Laura Nyro. She wrote many of the fifth dimension top hits, and Laura put out a few albums with her back up vocal group called LaBelle. that vocal group was led by Patti LaBelle, who obviously went onto great fame in the music world.
They are doing this live! That isn't readily apparent because they are so smooth in their transitions and it was common to lip synch on TV shows of the time. Outstanding!
And a quite complicated song to do in the first place too.
I love Marilyn's energy... its infectious!
The arrangement between 1:50 to 2:07 is amazing.
I always love their matching color scheme but different outfits. ♥️
My favorite of their performances of Stoned Soul Picnic; although I did like the slow surry they did in the 70s. But in this performance you can tell this is one of their favorites at the time.
Just in case you thought The Fifth Demension couldnt groove!!!
@@johnharvey1903 Indeed! You hear Florence scream "OW" when the Song breaks into High Tempo! Awesome Vocals, Beauty All Around, Talent, Energy, Rhythm, Groove, Harmony, and The Outfits, UNIQUE as all Get Owt! OW! Loved them! They Had It All, ROCKED IT!
This is amazing. Better than the studio version.
The only group who won the major categories in one night
Absolutely incredible! Most beautiful performance I’ve ever heard.
Earth Wind & Fire influenced by the Dimension heavily especially the horns and Harmonizing
They harmonize perfectly The Outfits was just stunning I loved everything about the 5th Dimension! That was a singing group I am so happy to have heard them as I was growing up, real singing!
Oh my gosh, I just love these guys. Marilyn McCoo and Florence LaRue are so great! And I just love Billy Davis Jr., so powerful. Lamonte McLemore, who brought everybody together, and Ron Townson round out the group very well. So much fun to watch them!
Epic harmonizing...
This makes me think back to summer days when I was a kid!!
You've got that right. We were so lucky. Now days we just have to keep that music close to our heart and listen to it often.
They sound fantastic live.
They sang this great live,..hahaha,..I love to see good real singers !!!
I could watch Marilyn McCoo sing this live all the live long day ( 1:34. )❤️❤️
This takes me back to my younger and happier days. Thanks!
feel good music of the 60s
What a GREAT YEAR! I remember this song defining that year~!
Just plain awesome. Thank you. So that was Florence (and not Marilyn) who sang: "Can you surrey?"
Love the music thank you billy and Marilyn for the beautiful sounds of yesterday.
T
Thank you Florence, Lamonte and the big cool guy.
And Laura of course
You bet I can surrey down to get stoned and picnic with you guys. They don't make music like this anymore, pass the pipe.
He accidentally hits the phone, and you hear it. THIS WAS SUNG LIFE !!!
Marilyn McCoo
(1943-)
(Soprano)
Florence LaRue
(1944-)
(Alto)
Ron Townson
(1933-2001)
(Tenor)
Billy Davis,Jr
(1938-)
(Baritone)
Lamonte McLemore
(1939-)
(Bass)
I was in like the 4th Grade when this fine group came to be. IMO- I give these people as much weight as The Beatles or Jimi Hendrix. And of course Marilyn McKoo was as gorgeous as they will ever come.
Great musicians live forever. Bravo ⚘
absolutely fabulous
And Florence LaRue ( shorter lady/petite ) 💝 Steps Out of her Champagne Soul for a second, "Rips" it on The "Street" Soul and Screams: "OW"!!! 👄 ~Brings UP The Song "OW"!!! ~ 💘🥳💕 Their Vocals, Style, Everything ~ It Doesn't Get Any Better ~ So Brilliantly Unique ~ Cool Cut Class Baby ~! P.S. But, don't "go" by me ~ I Love 'Em ~ The Kicker: Above & Beyond
This is Class Act They all look & sound great!!
Brings a big smile to my face
Thank u for posting
I love this era so much I could take a bite out of it.
Priceless!
2021 And this is still the best music!
Astonishing!
I love this
And from the sky come the lord and the lightning ⚡️
No lip-synching. Nice!
Absolutely wonderful ! Such super music performed by a class act.
So good & Marylin was just gorgeous...
FAB !
Effin' talent! Love them!
They are Awesome I love it they even look great all of them were are they
I love this! 🥳
😄That’s My Favorite Band
RIP Laura Nyro...
Wow! Love it!
I have always loved this song ❤️🔥
Love this performance. Great moves and outfits.
The funny thing is that...I remember the "lyrics", harmonies....EVERYTHING.... yep!!! I WAS SINGING THE LYRICS ALL 😒😒WRONG! 🙁😁🌞🌞🌞 i am happy they're still making beautiful in 2022-"UNSUNG"
Never gets old! Elementary school memories.
Thebest
I really regret not seeing them in their prime. ☹️
I loved them growing up and this is one of my favorites but have so many from them to choose from. Of course a big crush on Marilyn McCoo as well.
Love it hadn’t heard that in a while How I wish music today could make me feel the way the way the music of old still make feel . And I really like rap b/c it is poetry but the feeling isn’t the same
Maybe the greatest break in pop music history. Laura Nyro's song done perfectly.
I love this song by them! ❤️❤️❤️
This is true music. I was 4 years old . We had a 1970 mercury.
Such smooth harmonies!
Stoned Soul !!!
I love this version and what makes it more fascinating is Laura Nyro probably had a wider range than this whole group of great singers.