The man in the middle who sang lead in Let the Sun Shine In and the woman on the right at the beginning are Billy Davis and Marilyn McCoo. They are husband and wife and are still married today.
The 5th Dimension had a broad appeal to all audiences because their song selection and production were top notch. They had several hits in the late 1960s.
We Boomers made our mistakes, like all generations--but the MUSIC was glorious, fresh, inventive, unique--the BEST ever! THE golden age of popular music! But you had to live through the 60s to completely understand...
In Sweden "mods" looked quit different. (But it is colder here). More like British mods. This was released 69. Must have been in early spring. I was to enter high school coming fall. This song was played a lot in radio! Hippies looked different and was still more rare. As I remember it American artists were still minor in Sweden compared to domestic and the British rock.
Love this song especially when it changes. Wise instructions, " let the sunshine in" can make all the difference and this group helps one do just that. Thanks for the reaction.
I was in elementary school when they were big. They were on all the TV variety shows. Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. broke off the group as a duet and then Marilyn went solo as well. Great voices, great music. Brings back great music memories.,.oh, and they wore some awesome outfits.
These songs are from the 1967 musical “Hair” (turned into a film in 1979) and ‘Let The Sunshine In’ was the finale, when audience members were invited to join the cast on stage, and sing and dance along with them.
In order these are the opening and closing songs from the musical Hair, done well by The 5th Dimension. Listen to them doing "I Didn't Sleep At All", and their covers of "Wedding Bell Blues", and "Stone Soul Picnic.
Hair had a bunch of popular songs including Hair by the Cowsills, Good Morning Starshine by Oliver, Easy to Be Hard by Three Dog Night. The Original Cast Album was the only stage soundtrack to hit #1 for 42 years from 1969-2011.
I was a little kid when this came out and whenever it came on the car radio, I always started dancing in the front seat of the car and singing along while my Dad was driving (we didn't have seat belts back then). This is still one of my favorites songs of all time. The 5th Dimension has some really good songs. This was a monster #1 song and one of the biggest songs of 1969 and has been recognized by Rolling Stone and Billboard as one of the greatest songs of all time. This song was on the radio well into the 70s.
These songs can transport me right into the 60s - even thought I wasn't born then - where I can feel the spirit of the 60's and image how it was to be a part of the cultural changes taking place at the dawn of the "Age of Aquarius"! No matter how many times I hear these songs, they still sound magical to me.
Oh his voice absolutely has that gospel revival feel to it. A lot of soul. And the whole thing reminds me of along the lines of praise music in a black Baptist Church for example. I loved this song so much when I was a kid, and by this I mean the combination of two songs, it was played that way on the radio all the time. I mean all the time. I was so young, and the older neighborhood girls who were also our babysitters on a regular basis, they would gather next door on the back patio in the evenings in the summertime. They brought out this tiny little portable record player and they had the 45 RPM vinyl single to this song with Age of Aquarius on side A, and let the sun shine in on side B. It's such a fond and poetic memory for me. Here they were in their short shorts and tank tops, and during the first song, they would kind of make this serpentine dance where they put their hands together above their heads, pointed straight up, and undulated them back and forth together as they rose them up higher and higher while they did that sexy dance underneath. Bare feet, the moonlight in their hair, the music, just feeling good. The hilarious thing to me is, it was my job when Age of Aquarius ended to run over to the record player and lift the needle up really quick, flip the record over and set the needle down right at the beginning of the next song. I got really good at it. I was ready to instantly lift it up as soon as the last note played of the first song, flip it over really fast and quickly drop it down right on the first groove of Let the Sun Shine In. Elapsed time maybe 3 seconds at most.
There was a great "planetary alignment" in the late 60's that was to trigger the "Age of Aquarius", a time of peace and love. This was some genuine, heavy-duty, pure hippie stuff. In later years it was coopted for other uses.
I was 13 yo when this hit the radio in 1969. It was a great song to dance and shake it. This is from the Broadway Musical 1968/Film Musical 1979 same name HAIR. It is a great part of my music history/memories.
From the musical,,,, HAIR ,, very 1969 ,,, AQUARIUS THE STAR FOR THE NEW AGE GOING FORWARD, UNDER THIS STAR IS ENLIGHTENMENT,,, WISDOM AND RAW TALENT,,,LOVE ….AND OPTIMISTIC PEOPLE.
I was in high school when this song came out. Everyone dressed with lots of color and style. This song was done in our school at the senior/freshman sing 1969. The Fifth Dimension did so many great songs. Hope you listen to more of their awesome music. ✌
As several have stated the two songs were from the Broadway musical Hair. There was also a movie put out in the 70s. It's about a young man from Oklahoma traveling to NY to be inducted into the service, to be sent to fight in Vietnam. He meet up with anti-war hippies in Central Park. Other songs from the musical were covered by other artists. The singing family, The Cowsills, had a hit with the title song Hair.
I absolutely love the 5th Dimension. The group was every where on the airwaves in the 60's and 70's....very very popular!!! "SOUL PICNIC " by the 5th is also FIRE 🔥
Popular music of the Sixties was still greatly influenced by the Big Band era, which you hear in the first half. The second half of this song reflects the funk / soul sound of the 60s.
The story of how this group came to record this song was pretty wild. They met one of the Broadway producers for the live show and got tickets to see Hair and were blown away. Got permission to record it and was a huge hit.
The guy that put the group together is the ine in the yellow shirt i believe. The heavier set guy was an opera singer. They were not a gospel group, more like adult contemporary, easy listening.
This was one of the water shed songs of my generation, heralding the beginning of the prophesied New Age (Age of Aquarius) where all the negativity of the planet will come forth and over time be cleared away and then we will learn to live in love and brotherhood with one another. I see it happening right now. Despite all the crap that seems to be happening, we have to have it come up to be cleared before the New Age can come in.
The entire soundtrack of "Hair" is excellent and demands a listen. Watch the movie classic released ten years later (after the original cast recording) as well in 1978 starring Treat Williams and Beverly D'Angelo.
The light skin lady and the gentleman between the two women are married still today both in their 80s Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis jr.. check out the original singer from the Broadway musical HAIR Ronnie Dyson
Hard to believe that most of the best groups and individuals singing was 55 years ago. But then again there are some very good ones on up to now but they're few and far between individuals, not cookie cutter crap. Yes a few with Raw Talent.
Welcome to the Baby Boomer era, that music video was normal culture back then. th-cam.com/video/Qt_yKPNORLM/w-d-xo.html this link is to the Cowsills, who did "Hair". "Hair" was the title song for the play "Hair" that "Aquarius" and "Let the Sunshine In" came from. The Cowsills also did their video very much in the culture back then. Between this video you reviewed and watching the above link to the Cowsills. Will give you a look into the times of us Baby Boomers. But remember, this video and the link I put here, are to be viewed with the thought, "this was normal then".
Nice, 5th Dimension was featured on Soul Train at first everyone thought they were a Blue-Eyed Soul group until they seen them. But if you have time can you react to 5th Dimension "One Less Bell To Answer" My Fav from them.
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"Up, Up and Away" is another fantastic song by The Fifth Dimension..
Love it and Stone Soul picnic.
The man in the middle who sang lead in Let the Sun Shine In and the woman on the right at the beginning are Billy Davis and Marilyn McCoo. They are husband and wife and are still married today.
I love when she hosted Solid Gold
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Over 50 years married
The 5th Dimension had a broad appeal to all audiences because their song selection and production were top notch. They had several hits in the late 1960s.
We Boomers made our mistakes, like all generations--but the MUSIC was glorious, fresh, inventive, unique--the BEST ever! THE golden age of popular music! But you had to live through the 60s to completely understand...
Both from the hippie musical Hair.
You really need to see Hair to appreciate the music and vibes of the era.
This song was featured in the rock musical "Hair" & the '5th Dimension" absolutely killed it. The fashion style was called "Mod".
In Sweden "mods" looked quit different. (But it is colder here). More like British mods. This was released 69. Must have been in early spring. I was to enter high school coming fall. This song was played a lot in radio! Hippies looked different and was still more rare. As I remember it American artists were still minor in Sweden compared to domestic and the British rock.
The Bass line is everything!!
The Flower Child era!
They called me flower child even back then
The 5th Dimension is the tops! Try their song called One Less Bell To Answer. It is a great ballad by them.😮😊
Marilyn McCoo knocks it out of the park on the vocals
Love this song.. so sad.. but she does it perfectly.
I was 6 years old when this came out , I loved it. I told my dad I wanted to be a hippie 😂😂😂😂
He was not amused. 😂
Adorable!
Lol lol lol
Did you become a hippy I hope? Lol ...😂
I am 70 and this is the sounds of my youth. I still know all the words to Aquarius. Love the 5th Dimension!
Love this song especially when it changes. Wise instructions, " let the sunshine in" can make all the difference and this group helps one do just that. Thanks for the reaction.
I was so lucky to grow up during a time when so much of our entertainment carried positive messages. Im sure it influenced my outlook on life.
I remember seeing HAIR back in the 60s. All I remember is the cast stripped at the end of the first act lol.
Everyone loved this song back then .
I was in elementary school when they were big. They were on all the TV variety shows. Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. broke off the group as a duet and then Marilyn went solo as well. Great voices, great music. Brings back great music memories.,.oh, and they wore some awesome outfits.
These songs are from the 1967 musical “Hair” (turned into a film in 1979) and ‘Let The Sunshine In’ was the finale, when audience members were invited to join the cast on stage, and sing and dance along with them.
Loved this way back then. Was only 11 at the time, but had a crazy crush on BOTH of these beautiful women.😁
In order these are the opening and closing songs from the musical Hair, done well by The 5th Dimension. Listen to them doing "I Didn't Sleep At All", and their covers of "Wedding Bell Blues", and "Stone Soul Picnic.
Hair had a bunch of popular songs including Hair by the Cowsills, Good Morning Starshine by Oliver, Easy to Be Hard by Three Dog Night. The Original Cast Album was the only stage soundtrack to hit #1 for 42 years from 1969-2011.
I was a little kid when this came out and whenever it came on the car radio, I always started dancing in the front seat of the car and singing along while my Dad was driving (we didn't have seat belts back then). This is still one of my favorites songs of all time. The 5th Dimension has some really good songs. This was a monster #1 song and one of the biggest songs of 1969 and has been recognized by Rolling Stone and Billboard as one of the greatest songs of all time. This song was on the radio well into the 70s.
Used to hear this on the radio as a kid.
My hippie aunts would crank it.
I've been listening to this song since the day it came out. It's the ultimate song about. Hope peace love and harmony among us humans
I saw them live at a small venue, front row. They they sounded just like this !
These songs can transport me right into the 60s - even thought I wasn't born then - where I can feel the spirit of the 60's and image how it was to be a part of the cultural changes taking place at the dawn of the "Age of Aquarius"! No matter how many times I hear these songs, they still sound magical to me.
You are so very expressive...I LOVE watching your reactions.
Oh his voice absolutely has that gospel revival feel to it. A lot of soul. And the whole thing reminds me of along the lines of praise music in a black Baptist Church for example.
I loved this song so much when I was a kid, and by this I mean the combination of two songs, it was played that way on the radio all the time. I mean all the time.
I was so young, and the older neighborhood girls who were also our babysitters on a regular basis, they would gather next door on the back patio in the evenings in the summertime. They brought out this tiny little portable record player and they had the 45 RPM vinyl single to this song with Age of Aquarius on side A, and let the sun shine in on side B.
It's such a fond and poetic memory for me. Here they were in their short shorts and tank tops, and during the first song, they would kind of make this serpentine dance where they put their hands together above their heads, pointed straight up, and undulated them back and forth together as they rose them up higher and higher while they did that sexy dance underneath. Bare feet, the moonlight in their hair, the music, just feeling good.
The hilarious thing to me is, it was my job when Age of Aquarius ended to run over to the record player and lift the needle up really quick, flip the record over and set the needle down right at the beginning of the next song. I got really good at it. I was ready to instantly lift it up as soon as the last note played of the first song, flip it over really fast and quickly drop it down right on the first groove of Let the Sun Shine In. Elapsed time maybe 3 seconds at most.
Far out I love it😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤
✌✌✌✌✌✌
There was a great "planetary alignment" in the late 60's that was to trigger the "Age of Aquarius", a time of peace and love. This was some genuine, heavy-duty, pure hippie stuff. In later years it was coopted for other uses.
Each age lasts about 2000 years. The approach of 2000 on the horizon was the dawn of the Age of Aquarius.
I was 13 yo when this hit the radio in 1969. It was a great song to dance and shake it. This is from the Broadway Musical 1968/Film Musical 1979 same name HAIR. It is a great part of my music history/memories.
Yes. He took us to church at the end!
I was like 4 when this came out. Dancing with my mom!!
I've heard them described as "champagne soul"
From the musical,,,, HAIR ,, very 1969 ,,, AQUARIUS THE STAR FOR THE NEW AGE GOING FORWARD,
UNDER THIS STAR IS ENLIGHTENMENT,,, WISDOM AND RAW TALENT,,,LOVE ….AND OPTIMISTIC PEOPLE.
I was in high school when this song came out. Everyone dressed with lots of color and style. This song was done in our school at the senior/freshman sing 1969. The Fifth Dimension did so many great songs. Hope you listen to more of their awesome music. ✌
The lead female singer is Marilyn McCoo...one of ther finest voices of our times...
Billy really took you to church on let the shine in.
Such and epic song!! Has the wonderful sound of the late 60's!
I was 10 years old when this song was released in 1969. I had me a big crush on the tall female lead singer, Marilyn McCoo.
A classic ! Awesome song! Great reaction!
As several have stated the two songs were from the Broadway musical Hair. There was also a movie put out in the 70s. It's about a young man from Oklahoma traveling to NY to be inducted into the service, to be sent to fight in Vietnam. He meet up with anti-war hippies in Central Park. Other songs from the musical were covered by other artists. The singing family, The Cowsills, had a hit with the title song Hair.
This song brings back memories of grade school, this song was very popular then.
I absolutely love the 5th Dimension. The group was every where on the airwaves in the 60's and 70's....very very popular!!! "SOUL PICNIC " by the 5th is also FIRE 🔥
Welcome to the 1970's
Let me tell ya it was a time of it's own
musically...70s rule
Yep, harmony and you can understand the words
Just a glowing fireball of positivity! Depending on whose chart you look at, the #1 song of 1969 was either this or “Sugar Sugar” by The Archies.
Popular music of the Sixties was still greatly influenced by the Big Band era, which you hear in the first half. The second half of this song reflects the funk / soul sound of the 60s.
I was a teen when this came out. At 67 I still dig it, Baby 😎
Great music has no age barrier.
Hi, Guy! Try "One less Bell To Answer" also by The Fifth Dimension!
God Bless!
The story of how this group came to record this song was pretty wild. They met one of the Broadway producers for the live show and got tickets to see Hair and were blown away. Got permission to record it and was a huge hit.
What a song, glad you enjoyed it, Ace!!
The guy that put the group together is the ine in the yellow shirt i believe. The heavier set guy was an opera singer.
They were not a gospel group, more like adult contemporary, easy listening.
Used in the final scene of The 40 Year Old Virgin. Perfectly placed.
Great ole music, loved the 5th dimension
This was one of the water shed songs of my generation, heralding the beginning of the prophesied New Age (Age of Aquarius) where all the negativity of the planet will come forth and over time be cleared away and then we will learn to live in love and brotherhood with one another. I see it happening right now. Despite all the crap that seems to be happening, we have to have it come up to be cleared before the New Age can come in.
From the musical “Hair”
I had the vinyl 45rpm as a kid. Damn near wore it out.
The entire soundtrack of "Hair" is excellent and demands a listen. Watch the movie classic released ten years later (after the original cast recording) as well in 1978 starring Treat Williams and Beverly D'Angelo.
That Bass is straight fire!
"Peace will guide the planets ... and Love will steer the stars" .. If only it were true. We had so much hope back then. Now? .. Not so much
So good.
This was a huge hit in the new age hippy movement.
Billy Davis was told to "take it church" or maybe "bring it to church"
The light skin lady and the gentleman between the two women are married still today both in their 80s Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis jr.. check out the original singer from the Broadway musical HAIR Ronnie Dyson
💜Love The Fifth Dimension! Please react to -Up, Up & Away -Stone Soul Picnic -Wedding Bell Blues -One Less Bell to Answer - Thanks!
You need to research the musical HAIR, a revolutionary point in American musical history
Soul Train was really great! But the only salsa I like is from a good Mexican restaurant, the kind that sets your mouth on fire.
I think this is what the kids call a bop.
Hey, we dressed real nice, just like Michael Jackson. Check out his I Want You Back. Peace and cool ya dig. ✨️🎶✨️
That guy sings a lot like Wilson Pickett.
Check out some Wilson... 🤙😎
When it was okay to make music that lifted us up, instead of just playing up on our angers, resentments, lusts and jealousies.
1969!
if you want to hear
Donna Sumner sing this in German its on youtube
Hard to believe that most of the best groups and individuals singing was 55 years ago. But then again there are some very good ones on up to now but they're few and far between individuals, not cookie cutter crap. Yes a few with Raw Talent.
Welcome to the Baby Boomer era, that music video was normal culture back then.
th-cam.com/video/Qt_yKPNORLM/w-d-xo.html
this link is to the Cowsills, who did "Hair". "Hair" was the title song for the play "Hair" that "Aquarius" and "Let the Sunshine In" came from. The Cowsills also did their video very much in the culture back then. Between this video you reviewed and watching the above link to the Cowsills. Will give you a look into the times of us Baby Boomers. But remember, this video and the link I put here, are to be viewed with the thought, "this was normal then".
I bet your Mom started grooving right at the first note!
Back in the days of LSD and Mary Jane
With the exception of the bigger guy,they're all still alive as far as I know🎩
Ace, come on youve heard this song...
now react to wedding bell blues !
Flashy clothes? Ha! Not really. Just regular hippie clothes! The style of the times!
Hippt innit? ;)
Songs used to be happier.
wow so lt is. old new .just fiow with it god dont give a""""
Nice, 5th Dimension was featured on Soul Train at first everyone thought they were a Blue-Eyed Soul group until they seen them. But if you have time can you react to 5th Dimension "One Less Bell To Answer" My Fav from them.
if you want to hear
Donna Sumner sing this in German its on youtube