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Track Listing
1. Medley
2. Aquarius
3. Let the Sunshine in (The Flesh Failures)
4. Stoned Soul Picnic
5. Up-up and Away
6. One Less Bell to Answer
7. Sweet Blindness
8. Puppet Man
9. If I Could Reach You
10. Go Where You Wanna Go
11. The Worst That Could Happen / Wedding Bell Blues
12. Paper Cup
13. I Didn't Get to Sleep at All, (Last Night)
14. Blowing Away
15. Girl's Song, The
16. Carpet Man
17. Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes
18. Ashes to Ashes
19. Save the Country
20. California Soul
21. Never My Love
22. Workin' on a Groovy Thing
23. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - (previously unreleased)
Album Notes
The 5th Dimension: Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis, Jr., Florence LaRue, Ron Townson, Lamont McLemore (vocals).
Additional personnel includes: Tommy Tedesco (guitar); Tom Scott (flute, saxophone); Jimmy Webb (keyboards); Victor Feldman (vibraphone, marimba); Hal Blaine (drums, percussion).
Producers: Johnny Rivers, Marc Gordan, Bones Howe.
Compilation producer: Rob Santos.
Recorded between 1967 & 1974. Includes liner notes by Robert Allan Arno.
Probably the best-sounding and best-annotated single-disc anthology of the Fifth Dimension's hits available, THE ULTIMATE FIFTH DIMENSION lives up to its title. A blend of Motown-style supper club soul and the sort of California sunshine pop made famous by the Association and the Mamas and the Papas, the Fifth Dimension scored hit after hit beginning with 1967's Jimmy Webb-penned "Up Up and Away" through early 1970s pop-soul gems such as "(Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All" and "One Less Bell To Answer." All the hits are present and accounted for, including the era-defining "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" and the Laura Nyro-penned hits "Wedding Bell Blues" and "Stoned Soul Picnic." This is essential listening for all sunshine-pop and soft-rock fans.
Industry Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - Gorgeous.
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