THE 5TH DIMENSION
With an impressive two-year string of hits under his belt, Johnny Rivers was bursting with creative ambition. In 1966, Imperial Records, under parent company Liberty, accommodated by giving him his own record label to play with. He called it Soul City, which he envisioned as a platform for rhythm and blues acts of the modern, or perhaps I should say mod, variety. Not that any existed yet. The label's hottest act during its four year history was a quintet made up of three men from St. Louis, Missouri and two photogenic women from further east: The 5th Dimension. In the early 1960s, Lamont McLemore and Jersey City girl Marilyn McCoo put together The Hi-Fi's in Los Angeles with a couple of Lamont's friends, Harry Elston and Floyd Butler ... MORE ››
