First Time Reaction To The 5th Dimension- Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In (1969) THE WOLF HUNTERZ 

That bass was the late, great Joe Osbourne, an esteemed LA session musician and member of The Wrecking Crew - the name given to the A list session musicians for nearly everything that came out of LA in the 1960s and early 70s. In fact, it was Joe Osborne who gave the Carpenters their first shot at recording. Also part of that crew and heard here was Hal Blaine on drums...It's those same guys that you've already heard on TONS of older songs you've heard or reacted to, but never knew it. Carpenters and Captain and Tennille, Mamas and Papas, Beach Boys, ALL those hits of the 60s and 70s that came out of LA had those guys playing on it which is why they're all SO good. There's an awesome documentary for rent on RU-vid and I think Hulu too called The Wrecking Crew that shines the lights on these guys and gives many examples of the stuff they played on. Joe is featured in it, showing how he played that part and then they fade the track in. If you guys ever did movie reactions, that would be a good one, but even if not, still great to watch on your own to get an understanding of how those hits were made back then.

The top-selling song of 1969, that right there is what "groovy" means.

A time capsule. Marilyn and Billy are still performing. These songs are from the musical "Hair".

The bass on "Let the Sunshine in" was on another level. Just wow.

I've watched a couple of reaction videos to this song, and you're the first to acknowledge the incredible bass playing on this incredible song. Kudos to you!

Ridding with my Mom in our 1969 Chevrolet built like a tank! The 5th Dimension is playing on the car stereo and She's singing along I would go back in a Heartbeat!

I absolutely cannot listen to this without singing along I just have always dug this song ❤️

If you put nothing but that sick bass line on a loop, I'd listen all day

Marilyn Mccoo hosted SOLID GOLD

These songs Aquarius. Let the Sunshine In were in the musical stage show HAIR. 5th Dimension had many hits with a popular one called Up! Up! and Away. Great era for music.

Thank you so much! That put such a big smile on my face. Nothing like some 60's love, peace and flower power to brighten your day.

Marilyn McCoo. One of the most beautiful of women ever! And she can sing!! What a combination. She's not quite 80 and is amazing still. Check out her solo, "Last Night I Didn't Get To Sleep At All" As to the group. OMG Perfect harmonies. Powerful voices. Y'all be safe.

When I hear this song I can’t wipe a smile off my face. Such great memories flood back about this time. I miss AM radio.

this song is from the stage musical "hair." a celebration of peace and love. imagine how BEAUTIFUL the world would be RIGHT NOW if we'd embraced this ONE simple, glorious hippie ideal.

That was spiritual, a revival. Beautiful harmonies and a love in. Nice to see people enjoy it.

Fortunate enough to have seen the Hair musical twice on stage..still my favorite of all time. This makes me want to find my old soundtrack cd and slip back to the sixties for a while.

A great combo of songs. The 5th Dimension were so classy!

I was a 6th grade, 12 year-old Aquarius when this song became a huge radio hit, in '69. You can bet that I loved this song, 'cause it was about the dawning of "my" age, and of course, once I'd seen them perform on tv, I also fell a little bit in love with Marilyn McCoo. She's the taller of the two women.

Love this group and this song. Can't help but move along with the song.

For the past forty years and never again will there be music such as this..Its all been done.Grateful I’ve lived to experience it..The future generations are doomed.😌

Back in the late 60's and early 70's, Astrology and interest in horoscopes was of great interest to so many people across America. Books covering the subjects, coffee mugs, wall posters, etc. Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In, from the musical Hair was very popular with The 5th Dimension covering this song. When I was in band class back in Junior High, we played this as an instrumental. I played the Baritone Horn meaning I got to play the bass part of the piece. This song brings back sweet memories.

Its funny how I still get the same chills now listening to this song as i did listening to it as a child! Billy Davis Jr. takes you to church with his solo part. Awesome song! !

That Bass line on let the sunshine in can play all day long!!!

Really, growing up in the 60s and 70s our society was WAAAY more diverse and understanding and accepting for ALL cultures. Music like this helped bring that UNITY indeed.

Omg this brought back memories. I loved this song as a child. We had the Hair musical album, it was played to death. Still a feel good tune.

It does this old mans heart good to see you kids hear this for the first time and react the same way we did back in the day!! Yup this was our anthem.

I remember when this would come on the radio...I was 4-5 years old and getting up and dancing as I sang along.....

One of the best things about catching reaction videos with you and others is how proud (cant think of a better word) of the music and musicians and what they had to say and share with all of us then and forever

Great to see you reacting back to 60s and 70s. Not to say there isn’t good music today, because there is, but 60s 70s and 80s were so special musically.

She's rocking her head back and forth. She's feeling this song! Awesom😊😊

The 5th Dimension was pure talent, harmony, peace and love..

If you ever wondered what the hippie era sounded and looked like, this is it. ✌❤☮

It was SOOOO wonderful growing-up with all these fabulous singers---but, NOT so fun as they all pass from us!! Love y'all's reactions!!! ❤️

This song is from the Broadway hit, "Hair." Long hair was one of the many ways we tweens and teens rebeled in those day. I really wanted to see the musical, but my parent said no. That's because there was an infamous, all cast nude scene in it! Now that's ground-breaking freedom of expression!

I was 5 years old when this song came out. I still remember by watching all the stuff occurring during the late 60's and early 70's with Vietnam War still raging, protesting the war, and racial tensions even after both Kennedys were assassinated: John (1963) and his brother Robert (1968). Young Adults back then were against the status quo of the time. 1969 was the year for Woodstock Festival

We entered the Age Of Aquarius in December 2020, The Golden Age. It's always darkest before the dawn 😉👍 Love your videos guys 🥰👊 Love and light to you from Sweden 🙏❤🥰👊✌

5th Dimension was the greatest. They had the greatest talent, vocal beauty, enjoyable presentation, and total class.

My song I was born under that sign, and I'm of that generation. In 1969 I was living in New York City (I had moved there from Westport Ct. where I had been an au pair from Denmark) one Sunday I decided to go to Central Park, lo and behold the 5th Dimension was giving a free concert there. The air was so thick with pot, you could just stand there and get high.

We need these type of songs again.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the 5th Dimension. Now thats singing with "Harmony & Understanding".

The legend Hal Blaine on drums and one of his finest !

This song was ALL over AM Radio, and it blew my 10yo mind!

Oh take me back to the age of Aquarius! Make love not war. Peace, man. The best of times.

One of the hits 5th Dimension recorded was called Wedding Bell Blues. Marylin McCoo was the lead singer for it, and she was singing about Bill Davis, the guy who sang solo in Let The Sunshine In. WBB was about her wishing Bill would ask her to marry him. The result was that he did, and they are happily married to this day.

One of the many hits from the musical "Hair". I absolutely love the same things in this video that you guys do--the clothes, the dancing, the set, everything. This was pretty creative for the era.

I saw the original Broadway musical when I was a freshman in college. I had just started school in New York. I grew up in a small midwestern city. This show sure opened my eyes.

That bass line is so epic!

You should also list to One Less Bell to Answer, Up Up and Away, Wedding Bell Blues, I Didn't get to Sleep at all, Stoned Soul Picnic, and many others.

Great reaction to a wonderful song! Glad you felt the power of this music. 😃

I remember listening to this on the Recess movie and I am so glad the creators added such iconic songs from this time period.

The bass line is amazing.

Best ending to a movie is the use of this song in The 40 Year Old Virgin.

I love when the end kicks in! No matter what generation heard it, they come alive and can't hold still LOL. Loved your guys' energy.

I just discovered you guys this morning & I'm really impressed at your openness to such an incredibly wide array of music - I love that you just let go & let the music take you wherever it leads, no matter what genre. Good music is good music & your reactions to this classic stuff show why it's considered timeless!

That Bass line though

One of my favorites from 1969. I was living in Las Vegas when this came out in 1969. They were so awesome. Unfortunately I'm dating myself. I just turned 74 yrs. I love music of all kinds! This group was awesome at that time. So beautiful and graceful! 💖💖💖

Music was recorded by "The Wrecking Crew" in Los Angeles. The Badass Bass Player was Joe Osborne.

I had that album and 45 when I was 12, Marilyn McCoo is so beautiful and that voice! Now try One Less Bell To Answer.

They Were Big Really Big .I was a kid they were all over the radio ! Remember riding my yell ow banana bike with my Transistor Radio Oh Memories

The bass is awesome. Let the " sunshine in." Remember that.

5:50 "Take em to *Church*, Billy!"

Hair, one of the most successful off-Broadway productions in theatrical history, was billed as "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical".

this song is from a broadway play in the late 1960s... the play was about the hippie movement in america, and their belief that we were coming in to an astrological age or love and enlightenment... i think we all can see that never came to being... but, what a beautiful time.. a period of hope and the pursuit of happiness...

Omg such a great song i was a kid in the 70s what a great time it was.

Great Reaction Guy's To One Of My All Time Favorite Song's

Fantastic harmonies and a stellar bass rift by Joe Osborn....RIP

If this isn’t the coolest thing you’ve seen then you’re not seeing correctly. Fantastic ❤

One of the top ten tunes of all time.

This was the them song for the Hippy movement and we heard it on the radio at least once a day. Great time to be a teenager..

Will never forget being on on a road trip and asking my friend to grab a CD and she laughed seeing this CD in between Black Sabbath, REO , Ted Nugent and the Carpenters! Haha

Beautiful music at its best

I remember when this was on AM radio...all the time...Rock ON!!!

Love that song brings back memories from my youth .and by the way you are a gorgeous woman beautiful eyes too

You might want to watch the musical, Hair, which features this and many other songs, including the title song, Hair. Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair. Shining gleaming, streaming flaxen waxen. Just a tease of the awesome lyrics in that song.

This track is great musically & historically. It was entirely the creation of Bones Howe. Aquarius was directly from the musical “Hair” but Bones saw that it alone wasn’t a “hit”. He went and saw ‘Hair’ and realized the song ‘Flesh Failures” could have a more obvious title and become part 2. The Wrecking Crew, named by Loretta Lynn, included Blaine & Knectal & Osbourn, possibly Herb Alpert or his guys on brass, recorded this at Wally Heider’s. Bones gave Joe Osbourn the basic chart and told the musicians to do 24+ loops. Osbourn delivers a freaking Masterclass of Comping, playing 24 subtle but interesting variations of that chart. The tape was flown to Vegas where the 5D were performing. They listened to the tape ONCE, marked the changes and then put down the vocal tracks, one take. The entire outro vocal, over the Bass track, was entirely improvised by Billy, on the spot. Bones knew what he wanted and Joe, Hal, Larry, Marilyn & Billy delivered.

This music just makes you beam !

Absolute monster hit #1 for 9 weeks.

Add grew Up back in the 60 70s, I'm AOG some people are somebody's website. Or youtube with disrespectful about the music Back then and I was so upset because if this group speak in a single from their heart about let The sun shine They're singing about people hard or so. Cold hatred prejudice when they say, let the sun shine in. They sing about love and war another. This is a gossip R&B. Group to me the song I mean. Excuse me. If you're burning, listen to the lyrics, you will get a full understanding. Because every time I listen to It. My Holy Spirit does moves me. I can listen to the song 24hrs a day. That's how much it touches my heart and break tears to my eyes. Especially when the brother at the end. He has a preacher's voice He has a voice when you and church. And when the pastor is preaching, that's what this brother sounds like and every time he's singing The holy spirit be moving me that's how Power Full, this song is gobless you. I'm glad you guys really like it because i' I I know I do and thank you guys but be a respectfu Because somebody of a broadcast, they don't and it makes me upset. We go to talk about the clothing and the graphic. And everything else about how they made it in a very set to be off. Because that's a error I grew up on. I grew up. Thank you god god bless you

Thank you too for the reactions, it's nice to watch reactions where people love music, without cuss and swearing and not smoking during reactions, you guys are awesome

Amazing song. As I understand it, then they were recording it, the "let the sunshine in" part just wasn't working, so they told the lead singer to "preach it, just like church"....well, the rest is history.

Best reaction on RU-vid! Thanks guys!

Wait for it.................... wait for it..............

Wedding Bell Blues Stoned Soul Picnic Sweet Blindness Save the Country all written by Laura N.

classic!

This score comes from the play Hair. My dad took me to see the live play when I was 8 years old. Little did he know that it was a nude play. 😁😁😁😳!

Joe Osborn was killin it on the bass and the drummer almighty Hal Blaine kept everything in time. Bones Howe the producer told Billy Davis Jr. to “take it to church” on the second half of the recording. Spent 6 weeks at number 1 on the pop and R&B charts. Huh. Wonder why. You guys should also check out One Less Bell to Answer…

That bass player is my kind of mad man.🤘

I've heard these hundreds of times but I actually sat and 'listened' to them a few nights ago. Astonishing ❤❤

We did this in Junior high the next year for the spring choir concert. I was in band on trumpet, played piano, but played some guitar. We had 3 guitar players and a bass player and drummer in addition to a student piano player. The choir danced in the aisles! I demonstrated a facsimile of the correct bass part. The guy on bass had no clue what to do except play the root of the two chords on Let the sunshine. I borrowed his bass and showed him. the kids gathered around and said "shit man, you should play the bass part. I said no, [he's gonna learn it. In two days after I taught him at his house, he nailed it. I;ve never seen a kid so proud of himself. It wasn't exactly like the record but it was funky enough, nd he got all kinds of compliments from the teacher and students...they though he couldn't do it...I became a music teacher. Never EVER give up on a kid....especially your own. Music is not a damned sport...it's an art.

THIS IS THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS- ~ Opening hook of the medley "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine" performed by the 5TH DIMENSION, merged two songs from the controversial, and in turn groundbreaking Broadway smash, "HAIR". Synchronicity and Serendipity joined forces when a wallet lost was returned to one of the groups members while performing in New York by Hair's producer, Michael Butler and mutual show invitations ensued. Butler, son of the wealthy Co-founder of the Village of Oak Brook, Illinois, the Midwest's version of Beverly Hills, was thus birth-righted an "All Access Social Pass" to the American Royalty of the times, most notably including JFK, whom as a Senator he advised on Middle East and Indian matters. During a failed run for the Illinois Senate in 1967, he developed an anti-Vietnam War focus, and after seeing the original limited run production and being blown away, acquired the rights, reworked the show (adding the infamous nude scene) and from its re-opening in April 1968 ; It ran for 1,742 performances. The author was lucky enough to attend one of those in 1969. So pleased you and OTHERS of Gen Z, Zillennials, et al are discovering this song! It means we are indeed at the dawning of the AQUARIAN AGE- and you folks- will be picking up the torch from BOOMERS to ZOOMERS. (the folks in between, not so much, all Semi- to Un-woke, big yikes for them).- HEY- we took care of Vietnam ending, women's rights, Civil rights, Gay/Lesbian rights, Trans (which I am-sort of battle continues), and brought you the internet. Not bad for one generation's work! Oh- and I-phones. Can't forget Steve. "Aquarius/Sunshine won the 1969 Grammy for "Song of the Year". IMPORTANT LESSON HERE IN HISTORICAL TERMS-WHERE REAL CHANGE BEGAN< 1969-5th Dimension's #1 Hit for 6 weeks in April and May 1969- Nailing IT! -the Zeitgeist of that moment. The ensuing weeks and months included Woodstock, "An Aquarian Exposition"; the Beatles "Get Back" an anti-prejudice ode bumped "Aquarius/Sunshine" to number 2; Charles Manson became the face of Evil; and the Stonewall Riots marked the violent birth of the LGBTQ+ movement.

this was the year of 'woodstock'....sure fit's in!

For "Let the Sun Shine In," the main singer, Billy Davis, couldn't quite get the feel of it until the producer told him to "go to church." Billy clicked right in after that. The song definitely has a gospel feel to it. Funniest thing: that age of Aquarius nonsense wasn't determined by Jupiter aligning with Mars. That happens just about every year, and the moon in the seventh house happens EVERY SINGLE DAY, so that was definitely BS. Like all astrology is, but that's another story.

Checkout their song “One Less Bell to Answer”. You won’t be disappointed.Cheers

Grandgrandpa 71 here: Forever Hippy. For good sleep- still I got my Bong!🤗

These songs 🎵 are from the Broadway Show HAIR... Which became a movie in 1979. Hair was about a small group of Hippies that ripped up their Draft cards and hung/lived in Central Park that meet up with a recruit that came to NY a few days early awaiting his military "appointment". One of my top five movies. You guys would get a kick outta the songs... just remember we weren't offended by as much as the newer generations.

That's some badass bass!

8 years old bought the single! What did i know then about then black-white ? i just loved the song.....So in other words there is no difference!!

Awesome reaction !

Vocês não fazem ideia da qualidade do som produzido entre os anos de 1967 e 1973. Fantástico.

Groovy!😊