#BlackHistoryMonth We conclude this final weekend of Black History Month ’22 with a remarkable song by The 5th Dimension from the “Individually & Collectively” album. In his memoir “From Hobo Flats to The 5th Dimension,” LaMonte McLemore states about “Black Patch,” one of his all-time favorites (as well as the other group members and the fans!): “It always strikes me funny that one of my most remembered solo moments is the line I mischievously croon in full-on bass to punctuate Laura Nyro‘s Harlemesque panorama: ‘With lipstick on the reefer, waiting for a match,’ because I never smoked reefer! The ‘invitations to my party’ feel of ‘Black Patch’ was the cream of the crop of our most soulfully styled five-part output.” However, LaMonte continues to share his response to critics who claimed The 5th Dimension wasn’t “soulful enough” via his offering to Playbill concert magazine as follows:
The problem was that we were doing something different from the Rhythm & Blues that most Black groups were singing. Well, we knew we could sing R & B, Gospel and Jazz well, so we simply wanted to do something else. Now I think everyone understands what we were trying to do, and we never hear these complaints anymore.
Friends & fans, enjoy the #SunshineSunday mood of “Black Patch” here:
(“LaMonte Talks ‘Black Patch'” copyright 2015 from the memoir, “From Hobo Flats to The 5th Dimension” by LaMonte McLemore as told to Robert-Allan Arno, The Soul of The Voice, Ltd., all rights reserved. Forever 5th Dimension copyright 2008-22, intellectual property, all rights reserved)
From Hobo Flats to The 5th Dimension, the hip hit memoir is available at Amazon!:
FOREVER 5TH DIMENSION 
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