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Tony Orlando and Dawn was a pop music group that was very popular in the 1970s.
Their signature hits were "Candida," "Knock Three Times," and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon
'Round the Ole Oak Tree."
In 1970, Tony Orlando was a failed cover singer. He had two Top 40 hits in the early
1960s, but he did not have any success for the rest of the decade. He stopped singing
entirely, publishing music for CBS 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 as performed by "Dawn", so if the record did not succeed, he would not
be known as the lead vocalist. The single hit #3, so Tony Orlando decided to change
career tracks.
He chose singers Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson to sing with him when he
recorded "Knock Three Times." In early 1971, the single hit #1. The group waited until
1973 to release their next single, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree." In
terms of sales, this single was the most successful in the group's career.
The group released a fourth single, "Say Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose," but
the sales started to drop off. In order to boost recognition among the public, CBS gave the
group a television variety show in the summer of 1974, after The Sonny and Cher
Comedy Hour ended its run. The show was in the same vein as its predecessor, and
became a Top 20 hit. It ran until December 1976, but the group found it difficult to
maintain their initial musical success, and they broke up shortly after. Their last hit, a
remake of the Sam Cooke song "Cupid", was the group's last Top 40 single.