Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Monday Music "Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine in" by the 5th dimension

I coupdn't get my Monday Music up on Monday like I wanted, I had some problems

  I got home around 1300 and it was a looong day.  so I went to sleep as soon as I got home.   The problem turned out to be a loose battery cable on the frame.   I was glad that it was an easy fix and nothing $xpen$ive.

Like I commented last week, I heard this song a lot on my dad's reel to reel, and I had bought that cassette tape in Germany that I played in my Mustang while cruising the Autobahns. 

"Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)" (commonly called "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", "The Age of Aquarius" or "Let the Sunshine In") is a medley of two songs written for the 1967 musical Hair by James Rado & Gerome Ragni (lyrics), and Galt MacDermot (music), released as a single by American R&B group The 5th Dimension. The song peaked at number one for six weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in the spring of 1969. The single topped the American pop charts and was eventually certified platinum in the U.S. by the RIAA. Instrumental backing was provided by session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew.Something seen as a "rarity", the song was recorded in two cities, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, then later mixed in the studio.
The song listed at number 66 on Billboard's "Greatest Songs of All Time

This song was one of the most popular songs of 1969 worldwide, and in the United States it reached the number one position on both the Billboard Hot 100 (for six weeks in April and May) and the Billboard Adult Contemporaries Chart. It also reached the top of the sales charts in Canada and elsewhere. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 record overall for 1969.
The recording won both the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Group for the Grammy Awards of 1970, after being published on the album The Age of Aquarius by the 5th Dimension, and also being released as a seven-inch vinyl single record.
The lyrics of this song were based on the astrological belief that the world would soon be entering the "Age of Aquarius", an age of love, light, and humanity, unlike the current "Age of Pisces". The exact circumstances for the change are "When the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars." This change was presumed to occur at the end of the 20th century; however, astrologers differ extremely widely as to when. Their proposed dates range from 2062 to 2680.
Astrologer Neil Spencer denounced the lyrics as "astrological gibberish", noting that Jupiter aligns with Mars several times a year (which doesn't make sense either, since Mars' orbital year is 687 days) and the moon is in the 7th House for two hours every day. These lines are considered by many to be merely poetic license, though some people take them literally


3 comments:

  1. Saw them in concert in 1969, great group and quite the show!

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  2. Ah. I remember that very well. Why is your truck on top of a truck? :(

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  3. Hey Momma Fargo;

    Wouldn't start at a gas station near work, found out that it was a loose battery cable near the frame.

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