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Tony Orlando & Dawn
12+ albums
70spopsoft rockoldiesmale vocalists
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Tony Orlando and Dawn (originally known as Dawn, and later as Dawn featuring Tony Orlando) was a pop music group from New York City, NY, USA that was very popular in the 1970s. Their signature hits were "Candida", "Knock Three Times","Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree", and "He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)". In 1970, Tony Orlando was a retired cover singer. He had two Top 40 hits in 1961 and another in the later half of the decade as the lead singer for the studio group Wind, but he had not had any further success for the rest of the decade. He stopped singing entirely, publishing music for Columbia Records instead. Orlando discovered a song, "Candida," which he decided to pass on recording. After an insistence that he dub his voice over the male vocals in the original track, he had the single released on Bell Records as performed by "Dawn", so if the record did not succeed, he would not be known as the lead vocalist. The background singers were Sharon Greane, Jay Siegel, and Toni Wine, who co-wrote the song. After single hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Orlando decided to change career tracks. While "Candida" climbed the record charts, Orlando discovered that there were six touring groups that called themselves "Dawn". As he assembled his new group, the name "Dawn featuring Tony Orlando" was chosen to be their new name. He chose singers Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson to sing with him after he recorded "Knock Three Times" which hit #1 in early
top songs
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Knock Three Times
67,7842Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree (feat. Tony Orlando)
19,1973Candida
10,0264Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree
8,3675He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
4,5176Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree
3,8957Look In My Eyes Pretty Woman
3,8928Knock Three Times (Digitally Remastered 1998)
3,3099Knock Three Times - Digitally Remastered 1998
3,13710Who's In The Strawberry Patch With Sally
2,808
