The Girls' Song
1970 single by The 5th Dimension
"The Girls' Song" | ||||
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Single by The 5th Dimension | ||||
from the album Greatest Hits | ||||
B-side | "It'll Never Be the Same Again" | |||
Released | March 1970 | |||
Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 3:13 | |||
Label | Soul City Records 781 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jimmy Webb | |||
Producer(s) | Bones Howe | |||
The 5th Dimension singles chronology | ||||
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"The Girls' Song" is a song written by Jimmy Webb and performed by The 5th Dimension. The song was produced by Bones Howe and arranged by Webb.[1] It was featured on their 1967 album, The Magic Garden, but was not released as a single until its release from their 1970 album, Greatest Hits.[2]
Chart performance
It reached #6 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart, #43 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #97 in Australia in 1970.[3]
Other versions
- A version of the song by Jackie DeShannon was featured on the 2003 album, Tunesmith: The Songs of Jimmy Webb
- A version of the song by The Spencer Davis Group was featured on the 2016 album, Taking Out Time Complete Recordings 1967-1969
References
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Jimmy Webb
- Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb (1968)
- Words and Music (1970)
- And So: On (1971)
- Letters (1972)
- Land's End (1974)
- El Mirage (1977)
- Angel Heart (1982)
- Suspending Disbelief (1993)
- Ten Easy Pieces (1996)
- Twilight of the Renegades (2005)
- Live and at Large (2007)
- Just Across the River (2010)
- Still Within the Sound of My Voice (2013)
- SlipCover (2019)
- Up, Up, and Away (1966)
- The Magic Garden (1967)
- Rewind (1967)
- A Tramp Shining (1968)
- The Yard Went On Forever (1968)
- Sunshower (1969)
- The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb (1972)
- Reunion: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (1974)
- Earthbound (1975)
- Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1977)
- Watermark (1977)
- Breakwater Cat (1980)
- The Last Unicorn (1983)
- The Animals' Christmas (1986)
- Light Years (1988)
- Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind (1989)
- Only One Life: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003)
- This Kind of Love (2008)
- Cottonwood Farm (2009)
- Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb: In Session (2012)
- Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Jim Webb (1972)
- And Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain... (1998)
- Archive (1994)
- Reunited with Jimmy Webb 1974–1988 (1999)
- Tunesmith: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003)
- The Moon's a Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb in the Seventies (2004)
- Archive & Live (2005)
- "All I Know"
- "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
- "Didn't We"
- "Galveston"
- "The Girls' Song"
- "Highwayman"
- "Honey Come Back"
- "MacArthur Park"
- "Still Within the Sound of My Voice"
- "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
- "Up, Up and Away"
- "Where's the Playground Susie"
- "Wichita Lineman"
- "Worst That Could Happen"
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