5th Dimension - Light Sings (1971) video free download


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This video is from "The Bobby Sherman Special", which aired on ABC TV on Friday, 4 June 1971. You can see Bobby walk onto the stage at the end of the video. Note: Click "Show More" for band information and song lyrics.

The 5th Dimension are an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire also includes pop, R&B, soul, and jazz.

The 5th Dimension were best-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for popularizing the hits "Up, Up and Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "One Less Bell to Answer", "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All", and "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", as well as the eponymous 5th Dimension and The Magic Garden LP recordings.

The five original members were Billy Davis, Jr., Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, Lamonte McLemore, and Ron Townson. They have recorded for several different labels over their long careers. Their first work appeared on the Soul City label, which was started by Imperial Records/United Artists Records recording artist Johnny Rivers. The group would later record for Bell/Arista Records, ABC Records, and Motown Records.

Some of the songwriters popularized by The 5th Dimension went on to careers of their own, especially Ashford & Simpson, who wrote "California Soul". The group is also notable for having more success with the songs of Laura Nyro than Nyro did herself, particularly with "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", and "Save the Country". The group also covered music by well known songwriters such as the song "One Less Bell to Answer", written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. And perhaps best of all, they became great interpreters of the songs and music of Jimmy Webb, who penned their original mega-hit "Up, Up, and Away", including an entire recording of memorable Webb songs called The Magic Garden.

This song charted at #44 on the U.S. charts, remains one of my favorites by this great group.

Light Sings (Friedman/Holt-Gary/Alley Music)

The sun comes up

The moon goes down

A new day's on it's way

The stars in the sky

Are waving goodbye

And morning's here

Bringing in the day

Then the kids start to shout

Mother and Father, get up

And here's the sun

Light sings

All over the world

Light sings

All over the world

Light sings

All over the world

Light sings

All over the world

Light sings

The night is gone

The light has come

A new day has begun

The weather is clear

And people are here

And morning's here

Calling everyone

Then the kids start to shout

Brothers and sisters, come out

Into the sun

Light sings

All over the world

Light sings

All over the world

(Let me tell you that)

Light sings (yes, it do now)

All over the world

(Oh, yeah) light sings

All over the world

(Would you believe that)

Light sings (yeah)

(I know) light sings

(Come on)

Light sings

All over the world

(Brothers and sisters)

Light sings (come on now)

All over the world

(It's a new day)

Light sings

All over the world

(Let me tell you that)

Light sings (yes, it do now)

All over the world

(Here's the sun)

Light sings

(Yeah, come on and say it)

Light sings (come on)

Light sings

All over the world

(Mothers and fathers)

Light sings

All over the world

(Come on, come on)

Light sings

All over the world

(Come on, all over the world)

Light sings (oh, yeah)

All over the world.....

Comments

8 years ago

sauquoit13456

On this day in 1971 {June 4th} the 5th Dimension performed "Light Sings" on the ABC-TV special 'The Bobby Sherman TV Special'...At the time the song was at #51 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; sixteen days later on June 20th, 1971 it would peak at #44 {for 1 week} and it stayed on the chart for 8 weeks...It reached #12 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...Between 1967 and 1976 the quintet had thirty Top 100 records; seven making the Top 10 with two reaching #1, "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" for 6 weeks in 1969 and "Wedding Bell Blues" for 3 weeks, also in 1969...They just missed having a third #1 record when "One Less Bell to Answer" peaked at #2* {for 2 weeks} in December 20th, 1970...Original group member Ron Townson passed away on August 2nd, 2001 at the young age of 68...May he R.I.P.* The two weeks that "One Less Bell to Answer" was at #2, the #1 record for those two weeks was "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison...

8 years ago

Darrin Baker

Why was Florence the only one without a cape?

9 years ago

Jorge Mario Rodas

I like this song. It describes very well the joy one feels when waking up and seen how the sun lights up everything. And as it says if you go out you see people moving about after the sun has risen. Beautiful!

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

The best

9 years ago

David Roy

A wonderful, happy little song that this group did. BTW..I thought that this sounds a little like what, Sergio Mendes would have done in the late 1960s. That same kind of sound. Man, this group had incredible harmonies. The 5th Dimension blended well together. 

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

I am back beautiful

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

Wolfsky9 you were bless to have seen them in person sad ron died

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

I agree beautiful song

9 years ago

spectre56j

Billy Davis Jr! He has a voice like a live wire! 4 ever love this group! Rest in Peace, Ron Townsend!

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

That is Bobby Sherman right?

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

That's Bobby Sherman right?

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

Love this thank you for the posts

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

The best

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

The best

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

Ron is opera

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

I love this song

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

Harmony the bests

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

The bests

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

Loving this

9 years ago

Falana Jerido

Bobby Sherman wow is he still alive?

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