"The Singer" w/ Lyrics-5th Dimension

A tears in the eyes look at the singer-
Astonishing Lyrics...
placed together with Billy Davis jr. on lead and the remaining 5th on backup- Also covered by Barbra Streisand,Gladys Knight,Rosemary Clooney,Liza Minnelli...and a list of others...

Lyrics-
The singer tells his story in the songs he's singing about a life he never leaves behind.

The singer searches for the perfect meaning in all the dreams that dance across his mind.

Laugh with him...winter grows into spring.
Cry with him,lovers sing out of key and out of time and nothing rhymes.
And your life goes on and all...but it taunts...

...The singer makes you happy even in his sorrow.
knowing fames not promised him tomorrow.

He sings... his song as if it were the last...the last song.
Laugh with him.
Cry with him .
Live life and --- with him.

And if everybody loves the singer
And everybody loves the singer

Then why oh...why does the singer... need love???...
Back vocals to fade...

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Entertainment

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• white

[InACountryGarden]

Song titles can be so confusing! ,-)

There is, in fact [ to complicate searches further! ,-) ] yet another song called 'The Singer', composed by Michael Head. It's very old. It's SO beautiful to the ear. It's recently been sung by Lesley Garrett (& is no doubt also to be found uploaded here at YT!)

BTW, the Walter Marks composition, as sung by L.Minelli, is found if u srch for "Liza Minnelli - THE SINGER" (duration 2m39s).

I love this song you have upldd. I had never heard of it b4! :-)

[4eva68]

@InACountryGarden

Thanks for the info i will check them out .

...and you are so right about song titles i took for granted they were referring to the same song in this case since the lyrics are of standard and so detailed.

Thanks for stopping by.

;0)

[InACountryGarden]

Lovely song. BUt this is not the same song that Liza Minelli sang! which was written by composer & lyricist Walter MMarks.

[4eva68]

@InACountryGarden

Uh oh...

[jacko16592]

Thanks for posting

[Maceojazz]

@InACountryGarden

Also - this song was co-written by 5D singer Lamont McLemore (sorry if I spell it wrong), who rarely got a lead solo. Nobody ever comments on that. I'd like to know the back story of the song. lt has a pretty unconventional structure, like it was a poem put to music. I pulled it out last night and got all music geek about it.

[thesinger55]

I have been looking for this song FOREVER. Thanks for posting it. The lyrics are me. They always hit me where I live.

[Mistersweaty2]

The singer is as powerful a song as it was many years ago when I first heard it. There seems to have been era when pop / R&B singers were very distinct from one another.

[MsTexas73]

WOW...this is NICE...Billy's voice...the backing vocals sound AWESOME...Marilyn's higher notes in the end. YEAH..>CLASSIC 5th.

[higgybaby1]

The Empress of Soul Gladys Knight & the Pips really sang this song. This one is good too.