They were a standout in Questlove’s Oscar-winning documentary “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. This Sunday, The 5th Dimension ...
*Today we celebrate singer Florence LaRue of The Fifth Dimension on her 76th birthday. The group, which included Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. before they left to become a duo, blessed us with ...
Florence LaRue had no interest in being a singer when she was approached about joining the 5th Dimension in 1966. She'd moved to California from her native Pennsylvania in hopes of being a movie ...
There was never any really sense of tabloid drama to the 5th Dimension, a group of clean-living show-business professionals who all seemed to like each other and to enjoy performing. But there was, at ...
Florence LaRue was one of the singers in the pop, R&B and soul group The 5th Dimension but she’s also a musician, acted in television and the theater and has now come out with a new book titled “Grace ...
There are many reasons to revel in Summer of Soul, the acclaimed music doc premiering on Hulu this weekend. Across six days in 1969, tens of thousands of people streamed into a park in Harlem to see ...