SINGER LEFT Wallet in a NY TAXI...Honest Man RETURNED IT...Along with a #1 HIT! | Professor of Rock

Coming up next, it's a story that you have to hear to believe. Today’s band The 5th Dimension was coming off a huge song that took ‘em to the top of the charts and won them multiple Grammies. But they needed a follow-up song to keep the momentum going. And they found it in the most peculiar place. The band’s singer left his wallet in the backseat of a taxi one night and he knew he’d never see it again. Then out of nowhere, a stranger returned the wallet to him and they got to talking and turns out the man who found his wallet was a songwriter and asked him to bring his band to see his Broadway musical. They attended the play and were blown away by several songs in it that they knew they had to put on their next album. Turns out the song wouldn’t only be a #1 hit but a transformative song in the history of music. The band tells the whole story next on Professor of Rock.

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I’m ecstatic to bring you another episode from our series Revelations- where featured artists go deep on their greatest songs and albums. Insight into the biggest hits of all time that you won’t find anywhere else. The interview coming up will make you believe in the cosmic power of music. It’s really quite unbelievable… He lost his wallet in a New York City cab… his wife told him what he already knew.

He’d never see it again then he got a call that changed his life, Billy Davis Jr. and Marilyn McCoo who were original members of the 5th dimension… They had just swept the Grammys with their big hit with the Brilliant Jimmy Webb classic Up Up and Away and yet Billy Losing his wallet would lead to an even bigger hit and more Grammys’ with the transformational Psychedelic Soul #1 classic The Age of Aquarius / Let the sunshine in. With the wrecking crew playing on it, and Bones Howe’s brilliant Idea to combine two songs, hall of fame songwriter Jimmy Webb remarked that it would be a surefire #1 hit. Find out how the song came to them from this amazing husband and wife team next ...

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