In summer 1969, 300,000 people filled Harlem's Mount Morris Park over six weekends for the Harlem Cultural Festival, a free event showcasing Black music and culture. "It crossed our minds from time to ...

On April 12, 1969, The 5th Dimension garnered their eighth Billboard Top 40 hit with the medley from Broadway's HAIR: "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In." It stayed in the #1 spot for six straight weeks.

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 ...

The 6-time Grammy winning founder of Pop-Soul legendary singing group, The 5th Dimension is keeping it fresh these days, celebrating a hit memoir and now releasing a new song he wrote titled, "Cease ...

"What we were after was that Motown sound," said Florence LaRue, a founding member of the Fifth Dimension, in a telephone interview from her Los Angeles home. "All I can say is thank goodness for our ...

Something dawned on me recently when I heard my radio’s oldies station sing, “This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.” The Fifth Dimension released that song in the year I left my teens, the year ...

*Today we celebrate singer Florence LaRue of The Fifth Dimension on her 76th birthday. The group, which included Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. before they left to become a duo, blessed us with ...

In summer 1969, 300,000 people filled Harlem's Mount Morris Park over six weekends for the Harlem Cultural Festival, a free event showcasing Black music and culture. Those who played the event never ...