Travelling to other dimensions and beyond....

Well, I'll admit I haven't done a great job keeping up with this stuff.
Just recently, though, I decided to reorganize Frankie's record collection. I got a little excited, maybe enough to try to continue this (and maybe post my experiments with cleaning solutions).

Whenever I look through the vinyl I tend to find a lot of music that does not surprise me. Really, I almost expect Frank and Frankie to own some of these records. If they didn't, well they couldn't really be from Kentucky, then my family aren't really simple countryfolk, then I'm not really a good ol' boy (plus all that good food!), then I go through this whole existential crisis, then I return to Earth finding that I am just pondering the magnitude of collection of pieces of cardboard and plastic. Whoa.

Anyway.

I sifted through the records deciding how to technically file number band names (is it the back or front?) Since I like numbered bands I usually put them first, mainly because I hope they are at least interesting.

At first glance, I found that Frankie bought a record I would have never expected. Here I am sitting in awe. Really? This could be a record that she played in the house with Frank around?

Artist: The 5th Dimension
Album: The Magic Garden
Year: 1967
Label: Soul City Records
Matrix #: SCM-91001

Side One	Side Two
1. Prologue	1. Requiem: 820 Latham
2. The Magic Garden	2. The Girl's Song
3. Summer's Daughter	3. The Worst That Could Happen
4. Dreams/Pax/Nepenthe	4. Orange Air
5. Carpet Man	5. Paper Cup
6. Ticket To Ride	6. Epilogue

So let me give me you a hypothetical to explain my reaction this record. First, let's say that some genius found a way to define time in such a way that time travel becomes possible. Now since time travel only allows you to go to the future, the Illuminati decide that multiple people will go into the future to properly preserve our past.

I, of course, would be the one charged with bringing music to the future, a future that only has beeps and boops and listens to only Animal Collective.

I would leave this record, maybe 5th Dimension's whole catalog, from my "capsule" of 60s music. Why? Partially because of my bias against the "free love" thing that happened toward the tale end of the decade.

The other reason?

When black artists started creating their own sound, a young man by the name of Pat Boone covered those artists and made the songs accessible to white people. I feel the 5th Dimension did the same thing, but in vice versa.***

The one saving grace of the album? Their funk infused cover of the Beatles "Ticket to Ride":


Such a great cover, but even then doesn't get the ride to the Animal Collective future that looms right around the corner.

This is Dave Buckler. Have a good one, Internet.

***Side note- talk about unintentionally playing six degrees: if you look back at my other "entries" you will find that I played a game of six degrees (not of the Kevin Bacon fashion) with songs and artists. Who was the man that connected them together, along with being the 5th Dimension's main song writer? Jimmy Webb. I hope I just blew your mind.