Originally Posted by
dylan
In PeaceNHarmony's "'Ain't No Mountain ...' - Vikki Carr?" thread, The 5th Dimension's "Love Hangover" is brought up.
Here's what Lamonte McLemore wrote in his book:
"From Hobo Flats to the 5th Dimension: A Life Fulfilled in Baseball, Photography and Music by LaMonte McLemore as told to Robert Allan-Arno"
[[Copyright © 2014 LaMonte McLemore and Robert Allan-Arno)
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Like with Earthbound, there are some stories floating around our next song choice, but I'll state here that it was my idea for The 5th Dimension to record Love Hangover" from Diana Ross's album Diana. My heart raced as I said aloud to myself, "Finally, here's that really good dance record I've been dreaming of!" As soon as I heard it on Diana's latest project, I zoomed it over to our manager, Marc, and he agreed it would put us back on the map...
Meanwhile, Miss Ross had released another song [["I Thought It Took A Little Time") as a single from her album. Diana was appearing in London, and my good friend Gil Askey, her conductor- a true gentlemen who we recently lost- called me from overseas and related with shy if not sly amusement, "Hey, man, that song 'Love Hangover' that ya'll did..."
"Yeah, Gil, The 5th Dimension is thrilled with this one," I interrupted.
Gil went on, "Well, Diane called me while catching it on the radio and said, "Good, I told Berry we should release that song as a single... uh damn, now wait a minute, that's not my f-ckin' song!" Even the biggest Urban DJ in the country, Frankie Crocker out of New York's WBLS, had our single of "Hangover" going way up the chart until Diana allegedly told Berry, "Screw my current single! Stop that and put 'Love Hangover' out now! And whatever it takes, squash the 5th Dimension's record!"
So all of a sudden, our single-- one we had just performed on Dick Clark's American Bandstand-- wasn't played. Later, when Florence and I went to see Diane performing her acclaimed one-woman show on Broadway, An Evening With Diana Ross, she spied us in the front row, stopped dead in her tracks, and had the spotlight placed as if we were in a police lineup. As she pointed to a frozen Florence and me from center stage, she snarled with a smile, "Now there's the enemy!" She was trying to be funny... but the lady meant buisness.
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"From Hobo Flats to the 5th Dimension: A Life Fulfilled in Baseball, Photography and Music by LaMonte McLemore as told to Robert Allan-Arno"
[[Copyright © 2014 LaMonte McLemore and Robert Allan-Arno)
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