Earthbound (The 5th Dimension album)

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Earthbound (The 5th Dimension album) - Wikipedia

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Earthbound

Studio album by

the 5th Dimension

Released

August 1975

Studio

Sunset Sound, Hollywood
Village Recorders, West Hollywood

Length

37:28

The 5th Dimension chronology

Soul & Inspiration
(1974)

Earthbound
(1975)

Star Dancing
(1978)

Earthbound is the twelfth album by American pop group the 5th Dimension, released in 1975 by ABC Records. It is the last album for the group's original line-up of Billy Davis Jr., Marilyn McCoo, Florence LaRue, Lamonte McLemore and Ron Townson. After touring with the 5th Dimension in support of this album, Billy Davis Jr. and Marilyn McCoo (being married since 1969) left the group to work as a duo and as solo artists.^[1]

In contrast to most of their previous albums, Earthbound features synthesizers prominently in many of its tracks—particularly "Magic In My Life" and "Moonlight Mile". "Magic in My Life", the second and final single released from the album (after "Walk Your Feet in the Sunshine"), was also unusual in that it was the first 5th Dimension single to feature Florence LaRue on the lead. She would frequently be the lead on successive 5th Dimension singles with various line-ups.

Perhaps owing to its singular status as an ABC Records release, for decades the album remained the only one recorded by the original 5th Dimension line-up to not be issued on CD. It finally was released on CD in June 2014, through Real Gone Music.

Track listing

All songs were written by Jimmy Webb, except where indicated.

"Prologue" (Jimmy Webb) / "Be Here Now" (George Harrison) – 4:05
"Don't Stop For Nothing" (James C. Johnson) – 2:43
"I've Got a Feeling" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:23
"Magic in My Life" (James C. Johnson) – 3:17
"Walk Your Feet in the Sunshine" – 4:13
"When Did I Lose Your Love" – 2:47
"Lean On Me Always" – 4:28
"Speaking With My Heart" – 3:40
"Moonlight Mile" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 5:15
"Epilogue" – 2:37^[1]

Personnel

Music

Billy Davis Jr. – baritone vocals
Florence LaRue – alto vocals
Marilyn McCoo – soprano vocals
Lamonte McLemore – bass vocals
Ron Townson – tenor vocals
Harvey Mason – drums, percussion
Jeff Porcaro – drums ("Moonlight Mile")
Fred Tackett – guitar
Jesse Ed Davis – guitar
Dennis Budimir – guitar
Dan Ferguson – guitar
Paul Stallworth – bass
Bill Cuomo – ARP synthesizer
John Myles – keyboards
David Paich – keyboards ("Magic In My Life")
Michael Lawrence – brass
David Duke – French horn
Vincent DeRosa – French horn
Sid Sharp – strings
John Myles – vocal arrangements and special vocal backgrounds
Larry Coryell – acoustic guitar solos^[1]

Production

Jimmy Webb – producer and arranger
John Haeny – engineer (basic tracks)
Alan O'Duffy – engineer (vocals, strings, and mixing)
Carole Rubinstein – cover painting
Sunset Sound and Village Recorders – recording
Wally Heider – mixing
ABC Recording Studios Inc. - mastering^[1]

Charts

Album

Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1975	Black Albums	#30
1975	Pop Albums	#136

Singles

Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1975	"Walk Your Feet In The Sunshine"	?	?
1975	"Magic in My Life"	?	?

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Earthbound". Allmusic. Retrieved November 8, 2016.

v t e The 5th Dimension
Marilyn McCoo Billy Davis Jr. Florence LaRue Lamonte McLemore Ronald Townson
Studio albums	Up, Up and Away The Magic Garden Stoned Soul Picnic The Age of Aquarius Portrait Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes Reflections Individually & Collectively Living Together, Growing Together Soul & Inspiration Earthbound
Singles	"Go Where You Wanna Go" "Up, Up and Away" "Stoned Soul Picnic" "Sweet Blindness" "California Soul" "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)" "Workin' On a Groovy Thing" "Wedding Bell Blues" "Blowing Away" "A Change Is Gonna Come/People Got to Be Free" "The Girls' Song" "Puppet Man" "Save the Country" "On the Beach (In the Summertime)" "One Less Bell to Answer" "Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes" "Light Sings" "Never My Love (Live)" "Together Let's Find Love" "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All" "If I Could Reach You" "Living Together, Growing Together" "Everything's Been Changed" "Ashes to Ashes" "No Love in the Room" "Love Hangover"
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v t e Jimmy Webb
Original albums	Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb (1968) Words and Music (1970) And So: On (1971) Letters (1972) Land's End (1974) El Mirage (1977) Angel Heart (1982) Suspending Disbelief (1993) Ten Easy Pieces (1996) Twilight of the Renegades (2005) Live and at Large (2007) Just Across the River (2010) Still Within the Sound of My Voice (2013) SlipCover (2019)
Collaborative albums	Up, Up, and Away (1966) The Magic Garden (1967) Rewind (1967) A Tramp Shining (1968) The Yard Went On Forever (1968) Sunshower (1969) The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb (1972) Reunion: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (1974) Earthbound (1975) Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1977) Watermark (1977) Breakwater Cat (1980) The Last Unicorn (1983) The Animals' Christmas (1986) Light Years (1988) Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind (1989) Only One Life: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003) This Kind of Love (2008) Cottonwood Farm (2009) Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb: In Session (2012)
Compilation albums	Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Jim Webb (1972) And Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain... (1998) Archive (1994) Reunited with Jimmy Webb 1974–1988 (1999) Tunesmith: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003) The Moon's a Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb in the Seventies (2004) Archive & Live (2005)
Songs	"All I Know" "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" "Didn't We" "Galveston" "The Girls' Song" "Highwayman" "Honey Come Back" "MacArthur Park" "Still Within the Sound of My Voice" "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" "Up, Up and Away" "Where's the Playground Susie" "Wichita Lineman" "Worst That Could Happen"
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