the 5th dimension c/d

5D recorded Jimmy Webb, the Association turned down Jimmy Webb.

They still ended up recording PF Sloan.

tho it’s pretty terrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETNM6x1xfuU
Check it out. Featuring Bones Howe himself in the control booth. From an episode of It Takes A Thief.

And Florence LaRue's husband at the time, Marc Gordon.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci7jxg7pwOc/

^ That's brilliant. Who are the people who did that, exactly? Programme 4, it says, who are also behind the "Network 77" series, but I'm unclear on who they are.

Basically it’s one woman named Rachel Licthtman, I think. Do you remember The William Joel Show video I posted a while back?

She also does music videos for the likes of Aimee Mann and her husband and other familiar names. You should dig further into a her Instagram channel. As a lover of a certain strain of vintage tv it should be catnip for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Lichtman

If you search the ILX archives you will currently get six hits which include a few very funny tweets along with a mention by you of her unfinished Boyce & Hart documentary.

Unreleased, sorry

Oh I know her, I've been following her for years going back to old Twitter days. So she's actually the mastermind behind it all.

xp Was just about to mention the Boyce & Hart doc. My impression was that it was very nearly finished but she needed music clearances which were proving to be a big obstacle.

The amazing thing about the Boyce & Hart thing is that it's composed entirely of period film clips. No talking head crap or dramatizations or anything like that. Boyce & Hart themselves shot home movies constantly in the '60s and much of the doc is simply their stuff.

So you saw it? You went to a private screening with her?

Yes, well not with her, but she screened it at Bell House in Brooklyn, 7 or 8 years ago I guess. Bobby Hart was there and spoke on stage. Peter Tork was also there, signing stuff.

Cool, I'm a big Boyce & Hart fan.

B-b-but how do you feel about The 5th Dimension?

And William Windom?

What exactly am I looking at here? Is that a fake retro introduction to a 5th Dimension-inspired television show that never existed? I'm completely confused.

No you’re not.

B-b-but how do you feel about The 5th Dimension?

"Magic Garden" is a great album apart from that shitty of the shittiest Beatles cover. Jimmy Webb was always pulling that shit, so Thelma Houston's "Sunshower" has a version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" on it and Glen Campbell's "Reunion" has a Lowell George song on it (which isn't bad per se but it doesn't fit and is obviously the worst song on there).

I feel like I knew the answer to this at one point, but I think the label is more likely the “put a shitty cover smack dab in the middle of the album” culprit than Webb was.

No you’re not.

It's an eccentric kind of humor for sure, but I think the fact that we don't often see the names of the members of the 5D or even know them at all is part of what makes it funny. It wouldn't be quite as funny if the fake TV show starred Led Zeppelin, for example. And it playfully conjures a fantasia of early '70s Los Angeles in which the lines between the pop music field and the field of scripted TV are completely porous. It's like a dream a retro obsessive might have. What I see a lot in Rachel's humor is her taking a semi-forgotten name or thing from our cultural subconscious, and showcasing it, suggesting that it's somehow relevant - so that now we have to acknowledge it consciously.

Otm. For me I was into this one from the get-go and the detail that really drove it home was “William Windom.”

Damn, that "Age of Aquarius" arrangement is probably the best thing I've ever heard lol

xp Exactly, and “Raymond St. Jacques,” I mean this is some deep digging

Assuming this is an imaginary spinoff of the episode of It Takes a Thief they were on.

I could’ve sworn there was a post by Aero somewhere about one of the other male singers besides Billy being the secret weapon of their sound but can’t find it.

Assuming this is an imaginary spinoff of the episode of It Takes a Thief they were on

Wait what

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Check it out. Featuring Bones Howe himself in the control booth. From an episode of _It Takes A Thief_.

Reposting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_IOChyulyU