The song meant a lot to people. It was real. They had Father, Mother, Sons and Daughters still in Vietnam. 🏴 God bless all the Servicemen & Women who fought for our freedom and everyone else. And especially, Oh Lord look over the families of those who never came back. 😞 ✝✝⛪⛪🧡🙏🏿
@@danjames5552no its not. Tony Orlando has explicitly said he wrote it for the Vietnam veterans who NEVER got a proper welcome from the Americans. He has mentioned this in several interviews.
An amazing story of tony orlando ,my nephew was hit by a car ended up partially paralyzed , tony came to the hospital to see him ,stayed for a while gave an autographed photo . tony was awesome
This takes me back to the summer of 73. Remember it playing on the bus radio on the journey home on the last day of school and all of us singing "I'm coming home, I've done my time..."
He was in prison not the military though the song was later adopted for the hostage crisis in Iran and then the Gulf War. During the hostage crisis people wore yellow ribbons to show support for the hostages.
That is my earliest memory of this song- people tying yellow ribbons on the trees to recognize the Iran Hostage Crisis. My dad explained this song to me because I didn’t understand the yellow ribbons.
This song started a trend that lasted for a long time of tying yellow ribbons around a tree, post, mailbox, etc. when a spouse was returning from military duty, especially if they had served in a war zone.
This takes me back to 41 years ago today when the 52 American hostages were released from Iran after 444 days and arrived in DC. Bruce Langhans wife started a campaign when the hostages were taken when she tied yellow ribbon around a tree which she kept in her front yard for the entire time. I passed it every day going to and from school. When the hostages came home, there was an incredible parade in DC. I was in high school in Bethesda and we were let out early to join the festivities. We tied yellow ribbons along the route that Bruce Langan took on his way home and everybody lined the streets to welcome him back. How excited and proud we were at the time.
My brother (now passed unfortunately) was in and out of prison in the 60s and 70s. Every time he finished a stretch my mum would throw a party in his place in Battersea, pass round the Babychams and cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks and this would be blasting on the radiogram as he walked through the door. I was just a kid, but remember the love and the good times even though we never had a pot to piddle in.
I grew up listening to this back when it came out, & I still love it. Making a mistake, paying for it, and still being accepted & loved. "Now the whole damn bus is cheering, and I can't believe I see...a hundred yellow ribbons 'round the old oak tree"...that part can still make me a little teary. Silly, but true.
Loved watching their TV show when I was a kid. Telma Hopkins was so funny, making her cutting remarks. I miss the variety shows that were so popular back then.
I've never seen this version. My sister had their album. I loved it and played it all the time back in the 70's. Still listening today. I remember my Aunt loving this song and explaining it to me. It's a really happy song. All those ribbons.
Harri, ah the early 70's, what a fantastic time to be a young hippie in the UK. I want to take you back to 1971, it was my first summer holiday away from my parents and 2 weeks with friends, one of my favourite songs was from LOBO with a song called "ME AND YOU AND A DOG NAMED BOO", every time I play this it takes me back to summer days on the island of Guernsey when I was 17, happy days. Take care kid.
Yellow ribbons became a symbol for the Iranian hostages, and the song became a hit again. People had yellow ribbons in their trees and houses in support. During the Afgan war, Canadians began putting yellow ribbon decals on their cars in support of the armed forces. Ambulances, firetrucks, and police cars still have the decals on the vehicles.
Oh the memories. My mom, who loved this song, passed away in 1981. We lived in Texas. I went away to college in Tennessee. After that first year when I came home for the summer, the trees in our front yard were full of yellow ribbons. ☺️ At the time I was quite embarrassed but when I think about that time now, it makes me smile and tear up at the same time. Thanks for reminding me of that special memory and this song from so long ago. 💝💛
They'll never be good times like it was then ( the 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's). The awesome music, hairstyles, and fashion. I am one of those fortunate ones to have experienced it. Wouldn't trade those wonderful times for anything .I am 74 years old, been listening to this great music since I was about 10 years old. Have a big collection of Rock N Roll music of the late 50's to the 90's.Great reaction channel. Best wishes to you sir.👍👍❤️💯
I wondered when I would see a Tony Orlando and Dawn Reaction. I grew up watching them on television. They had their own show and Telma Hopkins (the one with the longer hair) went into acting.
Songs are like time machines. They take you back to a happier time, when you knew who you were dating, the crowd you hung with, so many things... Take me back to when I first met my future wife, 1973... 💗🤍💚💜🤎 ✝✝🥰
The yellow ribbon around a tree was adopted by those at home honoring the hostages in Iran and welcoming them home. It was used across the U.S., and can even be seen occasionally today in some yards to welcome their military love ones home.
Funny that you picked up that it would be played a lot on the radio when it came out . My strongest memory of this song was my brother pushing the buttons on our car radio as mom drove us to school and it was on 3 stations at the same time. My brother hated it so being an annoying younger brother I would always sing or humm it . 👍😁
The largest and most famous of 150 military prisons of the Civil War, Camp Sumter, commonly known as Andersonville, was the deadliest landscape of the Civil War. Of the 45,000 Union soldiers imprisoned here, nearly 13,000 died. This song is about a Union soldier in ANDERSONVILLE PRISON during our Civil War.
Thanks for your reaction to this song! Tony Orlando and Dawn were quite popular and wrote and performed some nice songs. This song was huge at the time and I remember growing up as an Army brat, living on military bases we would always see yellow ribbons around the trees in our neighborhood when a serviceman came back home to their families. Seems that Tony Orlando abruptly ended his career due to depression from his friend, Freddie Prinze, death.
Nice! My favourites of his are Candida and Knock Three Times... we actually learned this one (Tie A Yellow Ribbon) at primary school as a little kid in the 70s. I do like how now, it's gotten a bit of a second life linked to the military (in at least a few countries, families of serving military decorate houses, gardens, etc with yellow ribbons and bows).
Wow! Another blast from the past. This was a huge hit for them. You’re correct that it was overplayed on the radio, but somehow that seems ok now! I am enjoying this journey. Great one Harri!🌺✌️
Back then, everything was over played on AM radio, to the point where you got sick of the song. But back in the 70's, I mostly listened to music from 8-Track Tapes. And I never really listened to AM radio. Just FM 👍🏿😝
This song was a huge hit when it came out, on the radio and on TV shows. I never met anyone back then who didn't like it! The end still makes me teary!!
They made such a production out of some performances.Tony Orlando and Dawn had their own show for a while.We loved them and their music."Tie a Yellow Ribbon "is such a happy tune. I remember seeing Glen Campbell on a show riding horseback on stage singing "Rhinestone Cowboy".It was shocking, but turned out great.
This song went #1 in the UK and USA and was the biggest selling song in the USA in 1973. When talking about the song, it was said as that was when the Vietnam war ended, that many families associated this song with people coming back from Vietnam.
I was about 10 years old when this was a hit and I loved this song back then. Heard it on the radio every day that spring and summer. I really recommend you give Candida a listen.
This song was wildly popular and was played on the radio for years after it came out. After the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979 and the Iranians taking 50 American embassy workers hostage for over a year. Yellow ribbons around a tree became a symbol of the hostages and could be seen everywhere across the USA. The inability of the then President Carter to free the hostages led to him loosing his re-election bid, and the overwhelming election of Ronald Reagan. The hostages were released the same day President Reagan was inaugurated as President.
venomdust1 took the words right out of my mouth... More than once it would be on multiple stations at the same time🤨 I did enjoy it for a while, and with all good songs of the era, it just got TOO MUCH air time. It's pleasant to relive the fondness of the music from that period without the fear of hearing it every 20 mins on pop radio. I remember the DAY that FM format and a Progressive Rock station came to my town, went on the air and the first song I heard.... The full length recording of Queen's BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY!!! I'd been a rock music listener since I first heard Clapton, but hearing that masterpiece in full color, full length and in STEREO changed me! I bought the Night At The Opera album within a week and played it til it wouldn't. But before it wouldn't, recorded it on my old man's reel to reel.... those were the days when you didn't mind listening to the WHOLE ALBUM. Kinda miss the simple pleasures. Thanks Harri! Love your channel.
This is a story about a prisoner of war returning home and hoping his woman will still want him. It was released around the time the Vietnam war ended but was never stated which war the song refers to.
Really? I've always believed it to be about prison time. And here's why... "I'm coming home, I've done my time" - 'doing time' is a phrase generally used for time served in prison. "If you received a letter telling you I'd soon be free" - while POW's were allowed to send mail, unlike a jail prisoner, surely they would not be certain of the timing of their release? "Put the blame on me" - definite signs of regret here, something more fitting to a regular prisoner, not a POW. Also, there is a general sense of him wanting to be forgiven and asking if she still loves him, this doesn't relate to a POW? Finally, there lyrics are fairly literal, the word prison is mentioned. There is no mentioned of war.
Tony Orlando and Dawn were very popular. Telma Hopkins is still very active in many sitcoms, movies, and I believe she's on The Young and The Restless.
Your absolutely right my friend, so many things that people would have never been exposed to, they are now available at the click of the mouse! However, it's a little like the Vatican library, if you don't know what to ask for specifically...you can't find it! So it's good to have subscribers like myself, who know about all the great popular and obscure gems!
This song started the Yellow Ribbons on trees for missing people or soldiers away at war. The first time I remember it specifically, was when we all tired Ribbons for the hostages in Iran.
As many times as I've heard this song, I didn't realize until today that it was about a guy who had just got out of prison. Seems like I've always missed or didn't pay attention to "I've done my time".
There are full episodes of the Tony Orlando and Dawn Show on YT if you want to check it out. It's corny, but it is a window into a bye gone era. Donny and Marie and Sonny and Cher also had a variety show.
I understand your feelings about music. I've downloaded over 2500 songs to my laptop. A very close second is reading. I can (And have many times) read a whole book in one day. A couple of years ago, my sister asked me, "If you had to choose between going deaf or blind which would you choose?" I told her I'd choose going blind because I can always get books on tape. But, you can't see music. LOL
Yes, he went away....to war...in Vietnam....here's the song that came out as the war was ending and it expresses what many people felt like coming home.....
I think the story of this group is that Tony Orlando in California was matched with Dawn at the other end of the country and they had maybe a number one hit and a number two hit before they actually personally met for the first time.
Listen from the introduction. They said “Dawn”. Not Orlando and dawn. Tony was at war with his record label. They wanted to push tony out of his royalty money. That why he preformed as dawn
This was HUGE! Whole towns or families, etc would put yellow ribbons in trees for soldier's coming back home.
I remember that!!
The song meant a lot to people. It was real. They had Father, Mother, Sons and Daughters still in Vietnam. 🏴 God bless all the Servicemen & Women who fought for
our freedom and everyone else. And especially, Oh Lord look over the families of those who never came back. 😞 ✝✝⛪⛪🧡🙏🏿
@@danjames5552no its not. Tony Orlando has explicitly said he wrote it for the Vietnam veterans who NEVER got a proper welcome from the Americans. He has mentioned this in several interviews.
An amazing story of tony orlando ,my nephew was hit by a car ended up partially paralyzed , tony came to the hospital to see him ,stayed for a while gave an autographed photo . tony was awesome
I grew up with this song and it never fails to get me. So good.
This takes me back to the summer of 73. Remember it playing on the bus radio on the journey home on the last day of school and all of us singing "I'm coming home, I've done my time..."
"Mabel (our bus driver), please turn it up!"
Lol, us too!
Tie A Yellow Ribbon is very touching. My favorite song by them is Knock Three Times.
Mine is Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Then Knock 3 Times.. 😉👍🏿
He was in prison not the military though the song was later adopted for the hostage crisis in Iran and then the Gulf War. During the hostage crisis people wore yellow ribbons to show support for the hostages.
That is my earliest memory of this song- people tying yellow ribbons on the trees to recognize the Iran Hostage Crisis. My dad explained this song to me because I didn’t understand the yellow ribbons.
A Union soldier in ANDERSONVILLE PRISON in the Civil War
@@janiceduke1205 on a bus?
@@amyk9175 horse drawn bus/carriage.
@@janiceduke1205 guess that didn’t fit the timing of the song
This song started a trend that lasted for a long time of tying yellow ribbons around a tree, post, mailbox, etc. when a spouse was returning from military duty, especially if they had served in a war zone.
This takes me back to 41 years ago today when the 52 American hostages were released from Iran after 444 days and arrived in DC. Bruce Langhans wife started a campaign when the hostages were taken when she tied yellow ribbon around a tree which she kept in her front yard for the entire time. I passed it every day going to and from school. When the hostages came home, there was an incredible parade in DC. I was in high school in Bethesda and we were let out early to join the festivities. We tied yellow ribbons along the route that Bruce Langan took on his way home and everybody lined the streets to welcome him back. How excited and proud we were at the time.
My brother (now passed unfortunately) was in and out of prison in the 60s and 70s. Every time he finished a stretch my mum would throw a party in his place in Battersea, pass round the Babychams and cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks and this would be blasting on the radiogram as he walked through the door. I was just a kid, but remember the love and the good times even though we never had a pot to piddle in.
I grew up listening to this back when it came out, & I still love it. Making a mistake, paying for it, and still being accepted & loved. "Now the whole damn bus is cheering, and I can't believe I see...a hundred yellow ribbons 'round the old oak tree"...that part can still make me a little teary. Silly, but true.
Loved watching their TV show when I was a kid. Telma Hopkins was so funny, making her cutting remarks. I miss the variety shows that were so popular back then.
They're on RUclips! Yay!
This was the first single I ever bought. The year was 1973, I was ten years old.
I've never seen this version. My sister had their album. I loved it and played it all the time back in the 70's. Still listening today. I remember my Aunt loving this song and explaining it to me. It's a really happy song. All those ribbons.
Harri, ah the early 70's, what a fantastic time to be a young hippie in the UK. I want to take you back to 1971, it was my first summer holiday away from my parents and 2 weeks with friends, one of my favourite songs was from LOBO with a song called "ME AND YOU AND A DOG NAMED BOO", every time I play this it takes me back to summer days on the island of Guernsey when I was 17, happy days. Take care kid.
I had a crush on Tony when I was in school… I would watch the tv and listen to all his songs … this is one of my favorites
They had their own variety show in the 70s. I remember ☺
Tony Orlando and Dawn also sang "Knock Three Times On The Ceiling" it too was sweet.
Yellow ribbons became a symbol for the Iranian hostages, and the song became a hit again. People had yellow ribbons in their trees and houses in support. During the Afgan war, Canadians began putting yellow ribbon decals on their cars in support of the armed forces. Ambulances, firetrucks, and police cars still have the decals on the vehicles.
Oh the memories. My mom, who loved this song, passed away in 1981. We lived in Texas. I went away to college in Tennessee. After that first year when I came home for the summer, the trees in our front yard were full of yellow ribbons. ☺️ At the time I was quite embarrassed but when I think about that time now, it makes me smile and tear up at the same time. Thanks for reminding me of that special memory and this song from so long ago. 💝💛
They'll never be good times like it was then ( the 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's). The awesome music, hairstyles, and fashion. I am one of those fortunate ones to have experienced it. Wouldn't trade those wonderful times for anything .I am 74 years old, been listening to this great music since I was about 10 years old. Have a big collection of Rock N Roll music of the late 50's to the 90's.Great reaction channel. Best wishes to you sir.👍👍❤️💯
Love all his music. He's a great performer.
Telma Hopkins the long haired lady went on to star in several TV sitcoms like Bosom Buddies, Gimme A Break and Family Matters.
I wondered when I would see a Tony Orlando and Dawn Reaction. I grew up watching them on television. They had their own show and Telma Hopkins (the one with the longer hair) went into acting.
I was 12 when this was recorded in 1973, love it
Songs are like time machines. They take you back to a happier time, when you knew who you were dating, the crowd you hung with, so many things...
Take me back to when I first met my future wife, 1973... 💗🤍💚💜🤎 ✝✝🥰
CANDIDA AND wHAT YOU DOIN SUNDAY . Are really great songs also
The yellow ribbon around a tree was adopted by those at home honoring the hostages in Iran and welcoming them home. It was used across the U.S., and can even be seen occasionally today in some yards to welcome their military love ones home.
Funny that you picked up that it would be played a lot on the radio when it came out . My strongest memory of this song was my brother pushing the buttons on our car radio as mom drove us to school and it was on 3 stations at the same time. My brother hated it so being an annoying younger brother
I would always sing or humm it . 👍😁
He was in prison. It was later adopted as returning from the military. Great analysis and pick Harri.
The largest and most famous of 150 military prisons of the Civil War, Camp Sumter, commonly known as Andersonville, was the deadliest landscape of the Civil War. Of the 45,000 Union soldiers imprisoned here, nearly 13,000 died. This song is about a Union soldier in ANDERSONVILLE PRISON during our Civil War.
@@janiceduke1205 how is it about the Civil War, when there are several mentions of a BUS? There were no BUSES in time of the Civil war!!
Thanks for your reaction to this song! Tony Orlando and Dawn were quite popular and wrote and performed some nice songs. This song was huge at the time and I remember growing up as an Army brat, living on military bases we would always see yellow ribbons around the trees in our neighborhood when a serviceman came back home to their families. Seems that Tony Orlando abruptly ended his career due to depression from his friend, Freddie Prinze, death.
Nice! My favourites of his are Candida and Knock Three Times... we actually learned this one (Tie A Yellow Ribbon) at primary school as a little kid in the 70s. I do like how now, it's gotten a bit of a second life linked to the military (in at least a few countries, families of serving military decorate houses, gardens, etc with yellow ribbons and bows).
Wow! Another blast from the past. This was a huge hit for them. You’re correct that it was overplayed on the radio, but somehow that seems ok now! I am enjoying this journey. Great one Harri!🌺✌️
Back then, everything was over played on AM radio, to the point where you got sick of the song. But back in the 70's, I mostly listened to music from 8-Track Tapes.
And I never really listened to AM radio. Just FM 👍🏿😝
This song started the whole yellow ribbon thing ❤❤❤❤
This song was a huge hit when it came out, on the radio and on TV shows. I never met anyone back then who didn't like it! The end still makes me teary!!
How can one NOT like this song? 🤔
They made such a production out of some performances.Tony Orlando and Dawn had their own show for a while.We loved them and their music."Tie a Yellow Ribbon "is such a happy tune.
I remember seeing Glen Campbell on a show riding horseback on stage singing "Rhinestone Cowboy".It was shocking, but turned out great.
This song went #1 in the UK and USA and was the biggest selling song in the USA in 1973.
When talking about the song, it was said as that was when the Vietnam war ended, that many families associated this song with people coming back from Vietnam.
I haven’t heard that since the 70’s! Going down memory lane today🐝❤️🤗
The #1 single of 1973 in both the USA and the UK.
Billboard ranked this as the No. 1 song for 1973.
I love this song, never seen the guy or the video, but I really loved that the ladies stood in front or beside him...a real gentleman it looks like...
So touching... Goosebumps all the times I listen to it... Another great video, thanks Harri!!!
Please try " He Don't Love you" or " Sweet Gypsy Rose" as well as "What are You Doing Sunday" as they had some excellent songs back in the day.
I was about 10 years old when this was a hit and I loved this song back then. Heard it on the radio every day that spring and summer. I really recommend you give Candida a listen.
This song was wildly popular and was played on the radio for years after it came out. After the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979 and the Iranians taking 50 American embassy workers hostage for over a year. Yellow ribbons around a tree became a symbol of the hostages and could be seen everywhere across the USA. The inability of the then President Carter to free the hostages led to him loosing his re-election bid, and the overwhelming election of Ronald Reagan. The hostages were released the same day President Reagan was inaugurated as President.
He made a deal with them.
Yes, remember it well. There were yellow ribbons everywhere.
Thanks to the Canadians!
@Deborah Watson - Yes, Canada was very involved in getting the hostages released !!
@@Dee-JayW yes Canada was a crucial part in it also.
Love it! One of my very first 45s!!! A favorite of good ol' mom's!
This song was well played back in the seventy remember when it played great tune great music
Tony Orlando was a very loved television personality.
Torny Orlando and Dawn was a great old variety show.
My eyes always tear up at the end💗
Remember being able to have dinner in the front room and watch their TV Show
Thelma and Joyce are the best background vocals of all time in my opinion. Loved all the music they did with Tony.
Omg just wished for Tony Orlando yesterday so crazy!!
venomdust1 took the words right out of my mouth...
More than once it would be on multiple stations at the same time🤨
I did enjoy it for a while, and with all good songs of the era, it just got TOO MUCH air time.
It's pleasant to relive the fondness of the music from that period without the fear of hearing it every 20 mins on pop radio.
I remember the DAY that FM format and a Progressive Rock station came to my town, went on the air and the first song I heard....
The full length recording of Queen's BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY!!! I'd been a rock music listener since I first heard Clapton, but hearing that masterpiece in full color, full length and in STEREO changed me! I bought the Night At The Opera album within a week and played it til it wouldn't. But before it wouldn't, recorded it on my old man's reel to reel.... those were the days when you didn't mind listening to the WHOLE ALBUM. Kinda miss the simple pleasures.
Thanks Harri! Love your channel.
Another blast from the past!!!
That's storytelling at best!
Great reaction as always Harri. Great job sir. God Bless.
This is a story about a prisoner of war returning home and hoping his woman will still want him. It was released around the time the Vietnam war ended but was never stated which war the song refers to.
Prisoner of war? What does he mean then by "I've got to know what is and isn't mine"?
For almost 50 years I thought it was about a guy coming home from prison. It is. “I’m still in prison and my love she holds the key.”
Really?
I've always believed it to be about prison time. And here's why...
"I'm coming home, I've done my time" - 'doing time' is a phrase generally used for time served in prison.
"If you received a letter telling you I'd soon be free" - while POW's were allowed to send mail, unlike a jail prisoner, surely they would not be certain of the timing of their release?
"Put the blame on me" - definite signs of regret here, something more fitting to a regular prisoner, not a POW.
Also, there is a general sense of him wanting to be forgiven and asking if she still loves him, this doesn't relate to a POW?
Finally, there lyrics are fairly literal, the word prison is mentioned. There is no mentioned of war.
@@breckrichardson390 A Union soldier in ANDERSONVILLE PRISON in the Civil War
@@victoriabarr255 A Union soldier in ANDERSONVILLE PRISON in the Civil War
I remember watching their show when I was young! They were very funny, too. You should listen to Knock Three Times, it's so cute and catchy!
Omg takes me back!!! Great group
Tony Orlando and Dawn were very popular. Telma Hopkins is still very active in many sitcoms, movies, and I believe she's on The Young and The Restless.
We need a million like you
L.Russell Brown
Songwriter
The 60s was the best creation time..!
I believe the lyrics of this song are based on a true story.
This group was huge!!!!
You are so intelligent and insightful. Subscribed.
He used to have a variety show. It was my mom's favorite show
Never realized at the time it was written for the troops coming home in the 70s but have always loved it .
As a military brat it never occurred to me it could be about anything else...until Now.
This takes you back to yellow ribbons put on trees for soldiers were in every tree in every neighborhood
Bless you
Songwriter
L.Russell Brown
The 70s were the best.I will never forget this song.
Listen to some of Tony Orlando’s early songs. One song in particular is Bless You.
This is actually the song I have paused on my phone play list right now. 😎 I guess that means I like the song.👍
Your absolutely right my friend, so many things that people would have never been exposed to, they are now available at the click of the mouse! However, it's a little like the Vatican library, if you don't know what to ask for specifically...you can't find it! So it's good to have subscribers like myself, who know about all the great popular and obscure gems!
This song started the Yellow Ribbons on trees for missing people or soldiers away at war. The first time I remember it specifically, was when we all tired Ribbons for the hostages in Iran.
they have another hit song that I know you'll like Harry, is called " He don't love you, like I love you "
As many times as I've heard this song, I didn't realize until today that it was about a guy who had just got out of prison. Seems like I've always missed or didn't pay attention to "I've done my time".
Yes, 'Knock Three Times' - different song, almost the same music!
Fun fact, Thelma from Dawn was also Aunt Rachel in Family Matters, and Addy from Gimme a break
There are full episodes of the Tony Orlando and Dawn Show on YT if you want to check it out. It's corny, but it is a window into a bye gone era. Donny and Marie and Sonny and Cher also had a variety show.
I understand your feelings about music. I've downloaded over 2500 songs to my laptop. A very close second is reading. I can (And have many times) read a whole book in one day. A couple of years ago, my sister asked me, "If you had to choose between going deaf or blind which would you choose?" I told her I'd choose going blind because I can always get books on tape. But, you can't see music. LOL
Yes, he went away....to war...in Vietnam....here's the song that came out as the war was ending and it expresses what many people felt like coming home.....
I think the story of this group is that Tony Orlando in California was matched with Dawn at the other end of the country and they had maybe a number one hit and a number two hit before they actually personally met for the first time.
Oh my candida
Tony Orlando was close friends with Freddie Prinz, and was understandably crushed when the comedian took his own young life.
Damn Brotha you got good taste in music
It has a slight 1920s Charleston flavor. :)
This song has a similar feel to another big hit from the Seventies, “Save All Your Kisses for Me” by Brotherhood of Man.
Yes, but this came out first.
One of the responses I’m looking for from the reviewers is for them to say how come we don’t produce music like this anymore, but they never did.
Listen from the introduction. They said “Dawn”. Not Orlando and dawn. Tony was at war with his record label. They wanted to push tony out of his royalty money. That why he preformed as dawn
One other ting, When the hostages from Iran came back, their buses passed trees decorated with yellow ribbons.
1974-1976 they has their own variety TV show.
And he is still performing
This was so popular many years ago.
Ed Sullivan, Hollywood Palace, Carol Burnet. There were too many to name. Great entertainment.
"Candida" is another great one of theirs you might like...
Good song. If you are up to one more by the same group listen to 'Candida". Another one of their hits.
Hari listen to Tony Orlando's earlier hit "Bless You" its IMO his best song
You still see yellow ribbons from some older people that still tie them out when their family members return.
This started a trend of yellow ribbons on trees when soldiers come back home from the service.
To this day , the yellow ribbon welcomes people home . From war , prison , whatever.
Tie a Yellow Ribbon was played when the Iranian hostages came home in 1980.