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Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970- #89: “The Declaration”- The 5th Dimension. February 21, 1970.
- Single: “The Declaration”- The 5th Dimension
- Record Company- Bell
- Genre: Pop
- Written by Rene DeKnight and Julius Johnsen
- Time: 4:36
- B-Side: “A Change Is Gonna Come/ People Gotta Be Free”
- Album- Portrait
- Grade: C
- Peaked at #64 5 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The words of The Declaration of Independence set to music. Both sides of the single ‘A Change Is Gonna Come/ People Gotta Be Free” by the 5th Dimension made the Billboard Hot 100- neither side cracked the Top 40.Ā Great words but ole Tom Jefferson didn’t write the words with music in mind.
Schoolhouse Rock did a better job with the Preamble to the Constitution…which I can still sing by memory to this day.
This song might have been better with a faster tempo. Listening, I wanted to nap. Too close to a lullaby. šššš“š¤
yes those schoolhouse rock stuff was memorable!
I followed them pretty closely back in the day, but honestly don’t recall ever hearing this song.
Certainly not memorable. I don’t think I’d ever heard it either.