They were a standout in Questlove’s Oscar-winning documentary “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. This Sunday, The 5th Dimension ...
*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 ...
The Fifth Dimension today (clockwise from bottom): Florence LaRue, Floyd Smith, Leonard Tucker, Sidney Jacobs, and Patrice Morris Credit: Photo by Darren Stone From ramshackle horse and buggy wagons ...
Florence LaRue had no interest in being a singer when she was approached about joining the 5th Dimension in 1966. She'd moved to California from her native Pennsylvania in hopes of being a movie ...
Retirement, health issues and yes, even death: Groups that have been around for more than half a century generally need to make some personnel changes as the decades pass. The 5th Dimension is no ...
Florence LaRue was one of the singers in the pop, R&B and soul group The 5th Dimension but she’s also a musician, acted in television and the theater and has now come out with a new book titled “Grace ...
When two people leave a group together, and then go on to record with each other, what do you call that? It's not a solo career. A duo career? I guess it's a duo career. In 1969, the same year that ...
Not long before the Fifth Dimension released “Up, Up and Away,” the 1967 hit that gave the group its first Top 10 hit, something shifted in the way Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. considered each ...