The 5th Dimension: Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes

While it's been true for many of the songs that I'm putting on this blog, it's especially true for today's post: I haven't heard this song in decades. 

The 5th Dimension: Save the Country

Written by Laura Nyro: 



The late Ms. Nyro wrote quite a few of the 5th Dimension's songs, didn't she? 

The 5th Dimension: Wedding Bell Blues

Cute performance of this song, also written by the incomparable Laura Nyro: 

The 5th Dimension: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (Medley)

This video has lots of wonderful photographs: 

The 5th Dimension: One Less Bell to Answer

Hey, I missed yesterday's post... I was working on my other blog: http://mlmforintroverts.com/ 

I'm trying to get it going again - it's been quite a journey. 

Okay, here's today's video: 

The 5th Dimension: Stoned Soul Picnic

This was written by the late Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriter Laura Nyro: 

The 5th Dimension: (Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All

On to another greatest hits album from my childhood: 

Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens): Peace Train - classic and blues

Here's a beautiful more recent version of the song: 

Cat Stevens: Another Saturday Night

From a live performance: 

Cat Stevens: Morning Has Broken

I've always loved the piano in this beautiful song: 

Cat Stevens: Sitting

One of those songs that's instantly familiar: 

Cat Stevens: Ready

I can't remember ever seeing Cat without a beard: 

Cat Stevens: Peace Train

The very end of this version is a little longer than I ever remember from the radio: 

Cat Stevens: Moonshadow

One of my favorite songs by Cat Stevens (there are quite a few, actually): 

Cat Stevens: Hard Headed Woman

This looks like it was a great concert: 

Cat Stevens: Can't Keep It In

The next song on his Greatest Hits album: 

Cat Stevens: Oh Very Young

A video with photographs I haven't seen before: 

Cat Stevens: Wild World

I'm looking forward to this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, where Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) will be enshrined. 

Yusuf Islam: Father and Son (live)

A later performance of the same song: 

Cat Stevens: Father and Son (live)

One of the albums I grew up with is Cat Stevens: Greatest Hits. I don't remember ever hearing this song on the radio and only became familiar with it from the record. 

I'm finding, naturally, that the older I get, the more I see things from the father's perspective. 



I like to imagine creating a video comprised of this performance and a recent one by Yusuf Islam also singing this song and having them side-by-side, each taking half the screen. 

When it's the "father's" turn to sing, I would show only Yusuf, and I would have Cat singing the role of the "son," fading to black the one not singing using the sound effect of a stage light going out, and the light only illuminating the one singing when it's their turn. Alternating back and forth. Does that make sense? 

I imagine it being done seamlessly, like they're both performing at the same time. Done so well that I'd hope that at least one person viewing it (and who doesn't know any better) thinks to themselves: "Are they really father and son? Because they sound alike, and they even look kind of alike!" 

George Harrison & Pete Ham: Here Comes the Sun

Here is a performance from The Concert For Bangladesh (1971): 

Badfinger: Documentary part 6 of 6

The 6th and final part this documentary: 

Badfinger: Documentary part 5 of 6

part 5 of this documentary: 

Badfinger: Documentary part 4 of 6

part 4 of this documentary: 

Badfinger: Documentary part 3 of 6

part 3 of this documentary: 

Badfinger: Documentary part 2 of 6

part 2 of this documentary: 

Badfinger: Documentary part 1 of 6

Discovered this documentary the other night; it really sheds a light on this awesome band that didn't realize its potential. 



You can have all the talent in the world (and they did) but music is a business too and it takes good management (they didn't).