While Recording This #1 Hit, They Had No Idea The Song Would Happen In Reality! | Professor of Rock

My favorite married couple in music history Billy Davis Jr. and Marilyn McCoo who were in the 5th Dimension together in the 60s recorded this funny Laura Nyro song about the female singer (McCoo) asking a guy named Bill to marry her. Wedding Bell Blues! Life imitated art, as after they recorded it, Billy and Marilyn got married and then the song became a #1 hit. A great story that will bring a smile to your face!

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It’s time for another episode of our series Revelations where artists and bands give us unique insight into their greatest songs and albums. Today we have legendary music couple Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. They were in the 5th dimension together and got married in 1969 after storming the charts for years with such hits as Aquarius Let the Sunshine, Up Up and Away and today’s #1 hit Wedding Bell Blues.

The song was composed by Legendary songwriter Laura Nyro who as solo artist had a 3 octave mezzo soprano vocal range. Here songs were so renowned they are recorded by everyone from Barbra Streisand to Blood Sweat and tears, Three Dog Night and Peter Paul and Mary. She was idolized by many icons including Elton John

The 5th Dimension recorded several of Laura’s song and made them huge hits including the aforementioned Wedding Bell Blues which went to #1, Stone Soul Picnic with went to #3 and Blowing Away that went to #21 Coming up Marilyn and Billy tell us the story of first meeting Laura Nyro and the story of recoding these classic songs including Wedding Bell Blues that is a song near to their hearts:

Laura wrote the lyrics from the perspective of a woman whose boyfriend has not yet Proposed to her, and who wonders, "am I ever gonna see my wedding day?" The song carries brilliant dual themes of adoring love and frustrated lament at the very moment That Billy and Marilyn recorded this song they were in the same situation It was Art imitating life.

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