The Fifth Dimension

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The Fifth Dimension is an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire also includes R&B, Soul, and Jazz, best-known during the late 1960s and 1970s for popularizing hits of songwriters like Jimmy Webb, Laura Nyro, Burt Bacharach, Ashford & Simpson, and others, and helping to popularize "flower power" music with both white and black middle-class Americans.

The five singing members are Billy Davis, Jr., Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, Lamonte McLemore, and Ron Townson. Ron Townson died of a diabetes-related illness in 2000.

Some of their most famous hits include:

"Up, Up, and Away"
"One Less Bell to Answer"
"Wedding Bell Blues"
"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"
"Paper Cup"
"(Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All"
"California Soul"
"Stoned Soul Picnic"
"Workin' on a Groovy Thing"

Some of the songwriters popularised by The 5th Dimension later went on to careers of their own, especially Ashford & Simpson, and McCoo and Davis gained later fame under their own names.

The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2002.

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