 At the suggestion of Rivers and their manager Marc Gordon, the 5th Dimension covered the same song virtually note-for-note (except that the last verse of the 5th Dimension's version includes upward modulation), and their early 1967 version climbed into the top 20 on R&B and pop stations and peaked at No.16 on the Hot 100, opening the quintet's chart career.The budding songwriter Jimmy Webb supplied the group with their breakthrough hit, "Up, Up and Away", a mid-1967 No.