The 5th Dimension - (Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All - 45 RPM

[Dulcimerist]

I would've laughed if you had spent the entire time of the video showing the record in your hands instead of playing it. :)

[JeepBowling]

It was 1972 and I was 18 and just started dating my first real girlfriend. I was falling in love for the first time and I remember this song playing on the AM radio. She was on my mind and I couldn't get to sleep at all. What wonderful memories! Great song!

[rodneywaynehinds]

i so much love this song i wonder if some would come up with any thing to match this in my life time

[mixrj]

good song, good memories.

Thank for post it

[TheJavierJV]

TU TIENES UN TESORO EN TUS MANOS, QUE HERMOSA CANCIÓN, BELLA BELLA MIL VECES BELLA.

[gymabsrmine2]

My last memory of my mother eating inside a truck stop in North Carolina after our wind shield wipers quite working! Thanks!

[ChihuahuaboyDH]

Wasn't this one of The Fifth Dimension's last singles releases? They were a great group who knew how to harmonize well. I noticed your Bell Records promo copy of this single doesn't have a burn cue like the copy of "Mandy" by Barry Manilow had. Bell Records had a lineup of stellar artists, from The Partridge Family to The Sweet to David Cassidy & others. Too bad the label was discontinued by Arista in 1975.

Bravo, Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis, Jr. & Co.!

[Sybenett]

Is there anything better than the incomparable Ms. Marilyn McCoo on that voice and that beauty.

[jeffsbabb]

Analogue will always be superior to digital...

[rubbdraw]

She sounds as great as she looks!!!!.

[wvburkert]

A group for all time on vinyl on a great turntable. Wonderful. WABCRADIO77, we all thank you for the post.

[GiIIigan]

Great song. Using II Peter 3:8 as a formula, this song is almost an hour old. I was ten at the time.

[arrrvee]

this sounds excellent!

defintitely sounds waaay better than radio

[LouisianaGatorGirl]

Wow! You have a genuine, good old-fashioned record player! Cool!!!

[NateSean]

@LouisianaGatorGirl My mother has one. My sister, who was born in 2003, got to listen to some of our old favorites.

[jenny198932]

this song reminds me of my lenka in prague god bless you

[max2082]

It so crazy how rich the sound of the record is.

[blackandtanful]

高校3年､ﾌﾘｰｼﾞｬｽﾞ､ﾌﾟﾛｸﾞﾚにはまってたガチガチ­の私の頭を癒した思い出過ぎる曲､5THディメンション"眠れな­い夜"

[pornoslut]

I loveee this song !

[bridgmansmith]

This has been stuck in my head all day!!!!

[1960doonie]

oh the memories of this song!

[riitade644]

Beautiful voice!

[heycolslaw]

Perfect in every way: vibrato, rhythm, pitch, expression. I fell in love the first moment i heard her voice. Matchless quality.

[scraps270]

the passion in marilyns voice is amazing it shows a restraint that the glass shattering screamers of today know nothing about. they sure could take a lesson from her if they could put down their cell phones for three seconds and LISTEN!

[MrRN222]

Soft and wonderful singing by an Angel.

[kja427]

WHAT? No live performance of this tune? Guys, get your act together!

[CH3CH2OH4U]

I first heard this in '86. I had just joined the Army, and the bus to basic training was playing oldies. As a kid, all I knew of the 5th Dimension was "Up Up and Away". How the vocals vary between long and short vs the rhythm of this song got me hooked. I bought their greatest hits in basic, and all of their stuff was good, but this was my favorite. My Army buddies thought I was nuts, but they didn't know what they were missing!

[Schweizermusik]

> Love it and the memories :) ~ Thank you !

[Dobermite]

This is my all-time favorite pop song.

It reminds me of my first puppy love, 6th Grade, I asked her if she wanted to be my girlfriend and she said YES, that night I couldn't sleep a wink so I snuck my little transistor radio on with the ear-piece and sure enough this song came on, then I really had no chance to fall asleep and I didn't, literally laid awake all nite till the sun came out just like the song.

Ironically I live in NYC and I was listening to WABC that nite!

[doozydoozy]

Sweet memories of a simpler time. Great song. Marily McCoo was so beautiful!

[eastkingstonnh]

Reminds me why I like music on CD. Only thing worse was 8track. Thanks for posting this though.

[Alikah1]

@eastkingstonnh In the words of the late, flamboyant Billy DeWolfe---"PICKY,PICKY,PICKY!" The sound quality of this video was perfectly fine; no scratchiness or distortion insofar as I can hear. But then, I am only one of the unwashed masses. I suppose a highly trained ear can detect a distinct difference.

[3657nina]

OMG brings back memoriesshe has a beautiful voice

[Gravida12]

It's fun to see the 45 on the turntable too...helps bring back the memories. Remember the "record players" for 45s back in the day?

[ostravsketornado]

My most played record by Supraphon.

[XfrostgiantX]

You know, I first heard this song and I HATED the lyrics, especially the line about the sleeping pill... oof, awful! But listening to this now, I don't hate it as much. It's very well written and arranged, even if the lyrics are a bit un.

[resqray87]

One of the most amazing recordingd ever!! Piano as percussion.

[LittleDragon2000]

Marilyn was an angel who helped us express the inexpressible

[littleyellowkite]

I have not heard this song for YEARS!!!!!!! 

[1234sensei]

Thank you so much for uploading this wonderful track.............

[JiminyKracker]

Clever melody and arrangement. Someone should open up a retro music school so some of these modern artists that rely solely on catchy loops and synthesized sounds can actually learn the craft behind quality songwriting

[tomtom246]

Really Nice!!!!!!

[roberthungry]

this was the 1st 7" i wanted as a child at the age of 4.i later received it as a bday gift.such an amazing pop song:lush arrangements,tight harmonies,soaring vocals...awesome!thanks for posting , you have an amazing copy of this!!

[1979hampton]

For me it was Jerry Len in Walnut Ca.

[qimissung]

It's my favorite of their songs. Love this!

[DavidH681]

One of the sweetest, best arranged sons of the early 1970s. It has been stuck in head from the age of 7 until today.

[LittleDragon2000]

@DavidH681 Amen!

[TeachESL]

They were so great!

[jsw6810]

Nice analog

[miyan12]

Reminds me of when I was a little boy in the early 70's. I would sit in grade school and think of this song and my mother, and feel so sad.

[PJDooWop]

This is one incredible song

[cbfall]

I so love this song,WABCRADIO77!

[wmbrown6]

I actually have a promo with these very same fonts from the CBS Pitman, NJ plant on the label. As well as a stock copy with these typefaces. And wasn't this one of The 5th Dimension's last Top 10 hits? It certainly rates there with their other hits.

[wmbrown6]

In addition, the lacquers for their singles and LP's from the point they switched to Bell Records in 1970 were mastered by Artisan Sound Recorders in Hollywood (except for a few copies of their "Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes" single, #965, which had lacquers cut by Columbia's New York studios, with the famed "stamped" matrix numbers on the deadwax.

[TheBelcherChannel]

@wmbrown6 Too "inside". Nobody cares.

[NYBredBamaFed]

@wmbrown6 Their following single, "If I Could Reach You" was their 7th and final top 10 song.  It was the only time they had back to back top 10 songs, which is interesting since it happened in 1972 after their peak in 1970.

Another great post! The music from the 60's and 70's were the best.

[wmbrown6]

@NYBredBamaFed - Given the fonts on the label, the release was sometime in early to mid-March 1972, given that it debuted on Billboard's chart on April 1 of that year. (There was anywhere from a month to a half a year on average between a 45's release and the time it first showed up on the Hot 100.) Also, Godspell's "Day By Day" was released around late March of '72, given CBS Pitman pressings and the fonts used on the label at that point.

[wmbrown6]

@NYBredBamaFed - I have a very rare pressing variation of one of those 45's that didn't make the Top 10 - "Workin' on a Groovy Thing" (Soul City 776). The reason it's so rare - a CBS Pitman pressing, with fonts from that plant.