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…in the Summertime

LaMonte (McLemore) says it well on his FB page, today:

#ThrowbackThursday With record heatwaves around the country and the world, let’s cool off with this rare photo, found by my biographer Robert-Allan Arno a couple of years ago, which then went viral on the ‘net! I myself didn’t remember it…but what fun times with my forever friends, Marilyn, Billy, Florence and our beloved Ron. ❤ from Mac ❤

Thanks, Mac! Fans & Friends, enjoy these quintessential “Summertime Moves & Easy Grooves” by The 5th Dimension curated by FOREVER 5th DIMENSION. Just press the YouTube player below and stay here at Forever 5th, for uninterrupted listening….in other words, come on & “surry down” as we go “On the Beach” with “Summer’s Daughter.” Then “Walk Your Feet in the Sunshine” to a “Stoned Soul Picnic” while “High on Sunshine” with a touch of the grape aka “Sweet Blindness,” and later on under a “Half Moon!” Brothers & Sisters, “It’s a Great Life” and a “Groovy Thing” as we pray that “Light Sings” all over the world while we sing a “Sailboat Song” under “Sky…” and over “…Sea!”

Forever 5th Dimension by Arno, a production of The Soul of The Voice, Ltd., intellectual property, all rights reserved, copyright 2008-2023.

On the Beach Memories!

#Summer5thFun Let’s go “strollin’ on the boardwalk, on a hot summer day at the shore, by the sea” with “On the Beach (In the Summertime)”…a fan fave by The 5th Dimension. Released as a single-only by Bell Records, thinking it was time to move on from the PORTRAIT album, the late Ron Townson reported to us, during the time of The Original 5th Dimension reunion tour, “I really liked this song (which Townson begins singing with, ‘On the beach, where the happenings are flowing,” in double voice) but it wasn’t released during the summer, when it should have been!” Producer Bones Howe commented to FOREVER 5th DIMENSION, “Even though it was released during the wrong season and is rather obscure, it stands as a quintessential summer song by The 5th. And then we realized PORTRAIT still had legs when ‘One Less Bell” became a delayed, break-out mega hit!”

Enjoy “On the Beach (In the Summertime),” re-mastered as a bonus cut for the PORTRAIT album re-issue, here:

#BlackMusicAppreciationMonth

Forever 5th Dimension by Robert-Allan Arno, a production of The Soul of The Voice, Ltd., copyright 2008-2022, intellectual property, all rights reserved)