Live! | The 5th Dimension | The exultation of live vocal performance

Live! | The 5th Dimension | Wow! I wish that there was a visual document as well!

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	Live! The 5th Dimension Collector's Choice, 2007 average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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The exultation of live vocal performance

Although this album was recorded at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas in 1971, The 5th Dimension performed a very similar set on BBC television's groundbreaking 'In Concert' programme the following year. Undeniably, the record has a distinct easy listening feel to it, but if you are familiar with the group's studio albums (also just re-released)then you will certainly appreciate The 5th Dimension's remarkable talent for live ensemble performance of songs from their back catalogue. This said, the concert is much more than a mere celebration of greatest hits. With Laura Nyro's 'Eli's Coming' and Bobby Gentry's 'Ode to Billie Joe', the quintet take two songs entirely new to them and provide radical interpretations that are at once comical, mysterious and slightly sinister. The booklet unfortunately provides very little information about the three bonus tracks - my suspicion is that they do not come from the same time or venue. But no matter - all in all you would be hard pressed to find a better live performance from an all vocal group - and of course Marilyn McCoo really does sing like an angel.

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Wow! I wish that there was a visual document as well!

Growing up as a child in the early 70's, most of my relatives (who at the time were in their twenties and thirties) owned this album. Now I understand why.Pure musicianship is defined in every sense of the word. This group has been so underrated for far too long. Harmonies blending all over the place. Vocally, the 5th Dimension were very tight. It didn't matter who was leading the song because the background vocals never missed a beat. The energy from this live performance in February of 1971 cemented their transition from studio to stage. They are truly able to recreate that studio magic "live" and it sounds better than ever! The melody sections for Laura Nyro & Jim Webb are fantastic! "Tambourine" & "Eli's Coming" sound as if they were both especially penned for the group as potential singles and not as covers. After having heard this remarkable document, I wish that there was some kind of visual documentation as well. You know, to make it both pleasing to the eye as well as the ear. My only critique of this new cd version is that there isn't any listing as to where the 3 bonus tracks were recorded from. Sad, I really enjoy listening to those versions of "Monday,Monday" & "Going out of my head". I like them far better than the originals. If you don't own this cd, then I highly recommend that you buy it before it's out of stock!

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