Motown Records was a hit factory for black musicians in the early 1960s, churning out smash after smash R&B; song. So hoping to follow that same path to success, the fledgling vocal group that singer ...

(CBS11) - While driving around this weekend, I was listening to SIRIUS XM 60's On 6 and heard a song that took me back nearly 50 years ago and triggered some good memories. But before that... For ...

When Florence LaRue was a young girl growing up in Pennsylvania, before achieving stardom with The 5th Dimension, she was a bit shy. Fortunately, she excelled in sports and music, and that made things ...

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The 5th Dimension has been thrust into the 21st Century. Legendary pop and R&B singers Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. are breathing new life into an old Beatles classic — this go-round with an ...

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 ...

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 ...

They took us to a summer place and whisked us off to Shangri-La. She ushered in the Age of Aquarius and flew us up, up and away in a beautiful balloon. Baby boomer magnets The Lettermen and Florence ...

ALTON - Florence LaRue shies away from the recognition she has received as one of the most beautiful women in the world, saying inner beauty is what counts. But the 5th Dimension beauty cannot deny ...