I remember this year, and the great music we had! I am now 76, and smiling at the memories of good times, and good music! My husband was home safe from Vietnam…we had our first home, and life was good! He is still with me….how lucky I have been!
I miss you mom, this is a old song that brings memories of you and my childhood, I wish we could go back , I turned 60 last month and I remembered when I was 7 and you were 27, where did the time go?
Me pasa lo mismo con mi padre... Hace 5 años que fallecio y esta cancion me transporta a cuando era pequeño y el la ponia a todas horas 😢... Bueno, a lo mejor los que se han ido la están escuchando en otro sitio... Un abrazo a todos y buen día.
Tony Orlando and Dawn show were put in the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour slot on CBS back then; It happened after that show was cancelled due to Cher splitting from Sonny. This clip I think is from another show where Orlando was a guest.
@@okapmeinkap7311 You said it. I grew up in the late '90s and early 2000s and I really loved the time period between 2010 and 2013 for being VERY formative years for me... but FOR ME. PRIVATELY. I was blessed with a good upbringing and environment, but around the world, NO era was truly good or superior. The late '90s had a fair share of things that really sucked, the 2000s and 2010s as well. It'd be one thing if people described enjoying their personal memories of their youth, but then there's people looking at the '60s and '70s with rose-tinted glasses with that "Ah, in the good old days when everything was BETTER and simpler!" (yeah... as long as you were not queer or non-caucasian. And no internet or smartphones means people could get away with crimes more easily, b-b-but just don't think about that! Also until 1973 you'd get drafted for war, aint that lovely?) there was a LOT of misery beneath the colors and cheery music everyone loves to reference.
A wonderful time to be growing up, we were so lucky to have lived this era. Especially being a teenager in the 1980's. Would not have missed it for anything.😀😀😀
I'm crying 😢 reminds me when I was a child,it would play on the radio my mom kept inthe kitchen. As she would be cooking,when the song came on,she'd crank up the volume. She so loved this song. I didn't wanna cry 😢 Miss her so much.
Remember to suck the marrows out of life and to live deliberately each day so that when YOU are 130, 65 years from now, you will say to yourself I was only slightly older than the prior first 65 years young. Cheers!
My dad’s favorite song. He would always keep the radio close to his head before to sleep. It has been 5 years since he left us. Missing u so much Papa😢
Used to watch the show, with my dad, he also passed away couple years ago at the age of 97 , music like this from thar time period, was so much better. Miss you Daddy
So many of us it reminds of us mom because mom is our HOME. I hope they play this in heaven for her. I can't speak about this song without crying . Today's music is horrible. I'd give anything to go back to these days. We are so lucky we got to experience those days.
I agree. However, for me, this is my generation, not my mom's. My mom was the 50s and early 60s. It also was country and western for her. She was a big singing cowboys fan. Me, I fell in love with 60s, 70s, and 80s Rock and Roll. Tony Orlando and Dawn was just one of my favorites. Elvis was another. The mid to late Beatles. Herman's Hermits, the Rolling Stones, the Eagles (yes, I like some of the crossovers and even some country), I also liked another of Pop and, believe it or not, I even liked Disco.
Feeling like time slowing until it's still. I legitimately don't understand what these full soft spirited hearts and beings are meant to live on this deteriorating planet. I wish we could channel the music to make chance
I'm 52 yrs old now & still love this song...it's a absolute classic!!! I was about 5 yrs old when this song came out...but I remember well...my mom & dad played it all the time on their 8-track player. My mom is now 74 & my died 5 yrs ago at the age of 73. When I hear this song I smile because it brings back SOME GREAT CHILDHOOD MEMORIES!!! Much love from Mobile Alabama
Randy Miller: I, too, am 52 years old. My parents, big brother (who was a freshman or a sophomore in high school at the time), and I were living on Davis Monthon AFB in Tucson, Arizona when this song was released. I know the human brain will store random information and even the most unexpected memories which, I suppose, makes our species so unique. But after almost three decades, a very dear close friend who recently passed away from advanced pancreatic cancer played this song for me and, as I watched the vinyl record spinning around and around, I was immediately transferred back to 1973 (or did it come out in 1974?) I was suddenly holding my father's hand as our family crossed St. Mary's Blvd to enter and attend Catholic Church services. This church was located on the other side of the road (ac. This memory is, at best, two seconds long before disappearing back to my subconscious and all I am left with is how good it makes me feel. Thank you for your post/comment.
Lovely to read how so many people still listen to this amazing song....am 39 yrs now and would love to keep going on with these lovely melodies of yester years 😇 - from Chennai, India
I to am 54 years old& remember my mom& even grandma loved this song!! In 2022 we need anything to keep our minds off our country being destroyed by the current administration!! God bless you and keep your family safe in these crazy times!!✌️❤️🙏
this song reminds me of my wife....just before I came back from Okinawa after being there for a year....she wrote a letter in 77 asking if I still wanted her.....been married for 43 years this July
I think that I have not been the only one who cries when I hear this song, I remember that I was very young and when I heard this song with my mother we danced hugging each other. Currently my mother is in very delicate health (she is 90 years old).😢
I remember watching this with my mother when I was a child, she passed in an accident two years later in 1975. RIP mom. I still think about you often and I still miss you.
I was dating a very nice girl when this song came out. There was a hugh pine tree in her yard. One night I made a huge yellow ribbon and tied it around the tree. When her and her family and the neighbors saw it the next day, they all started to laugh and smile. They all thought it was great. Her and I dated for some time..... those days were truly the greatest !!!!
Reminds me of being a kid in the 70’s great era to grow up sad that kids today don’t get to experience growing up in a world like back then. Great song...
Am 44 with lung disease. Still do construction and gardening. Love Evel Knieval, Cannonball Run, Dukes of Hazzard and the A Team. Am Irish, my ex Wife and twelve year old Son Jacob is successful at soccer and boxing. But despite Bigg Fat Donald Trump doing his best, this world has become darker and more dangerous. I blame the lefties and the computer nerds. I mean, they control everything these days. Shall watch Viva Knieval Now. Shalom. 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸🇮🇱
I know I'm not the only one here thinking that music from the 60's,70's,80's, and some 90's and this 70's Gem "Tie A Yellow Ribbon " are past Eras that can never be emulated! If you feel this way too, I salute You!
My mum., who passed away in October 2020, loved this song . I remember saving up my pocket money and walking into the town centre to buy it on vinyl on the Bell Record Label . Then walking home and when she came home from work , sitting down with her to listen to it on their old record player . I will never forget the smile on her face . Good Times ❤
Oh, yes, we all loved the war, didn't we? And we all loved Richard Nixon, although he was a thousand times better than the douchebag in the White House, now.
I remember when it came out. They used to play it quite frequently on the radio. I was 10 years old in 1973! I loved the introduction, and until this very day, I still do.✌️❤️
This song wasn't just another hit playing on the radio back in '73. It was THE biggest hit of that year and is one of the most recorded songs of all time.
I L💛VE this Song. First heard it the year I turned 21. People began to put yellow ribbons around trees in the local parks . A lot of Our Viet Nam Combat Vets were returning Home. Some were so disheartened from the things they'd seen and done. The Yellow Ribbons truly helped them to not feel so discouraged. The Song itself definitely seemed to Brighten their Spirits. 💙
I tied one for the love of my life. Left for Vietnam... And we were to suppose to marry when he returned but instead he came home in a Box.🤧❤️❤️🇱🇷 R.I.P. 🙏 we will be together soon. Always miss you Dearly my Love.🌷
I was 10 turning 11 in 1973. I loved The Tony Orlando and Dawn Show. Variety shows were it in the 70s. I'm 61 now and this is the best memory ever. Smiling....
@@CHoskinsBurks I bet a big star like beyonce could have a great show, They could sing/rap/dance and do skits, have guest stars etc. i' bet it would work.
One of the "all-time-greats" songs. Just throws in relief how bad music is today. For the past 35 years, not even one song that can match this. Thank you, Tony Orlando. You contributed to humanity.
You been sleeping under a rock those past 35 years if you don't think there is any music since 1973 that beats this one. Many of the songs of the 1980's will beat this one easily
I was only in my single digits when this song came out. And I’ve LOVED it forever!! My parents used to watch the Tony Orlando and Dawn show all the time when I was a kid. AMAZING MEMORIES!! ❤️
6 . . . young but old enough to remember this music . . . Hell I was 6 in 1973 and I can even remember my first grade teacher name . . Mrs Inman and she was great . . . So yeah I remember this song very well from my childhood . . . And even now at 55 years old . . I still love this song. . . So 6 or 55 this is my kind of music and that's never going to change . . . I was young in 1973 . . . But atleast I was there in 1973 and that was as much apart of my life as today is . . . A lot of younger people only wish they had been around in 1973 . . . We were lucky and were there . . . We don't have to make excuses just because we were young and 1973 . . . We may have been young in '73 but it doesn't mean we were stupid and don't remember any of it .
TV was far more diverse than it is today. While it was a big deal to have people of other races on the show, their skin colort wasn't the reason why they were there but the music or other performance that they were there to put on.
I saw him in Lowell massachusetts for a show on his birthday and for little more you could go to his birthday party after. I think it was his 60th. Everyone could meet and talk to him after. I thought it would be a quick thing. He is such a great guy. He met and talked with everyone for as long as they wanted. He took photos, signed autographs. I didn’t get home until 3 in the morning. What a fantastic time. He is so personable.
The pants, the hair and mustache…iconic!!! I loved this song, never understood what he was talking about… but the song eventually got me and I got it!! ❤
Wonderful song with great melody and touching sentiment...Tony was great singing this...so great Frank Sinatra felt compelled to record it as one of the classic songs of the era...Dawn was fabulous too.
@@markberryhill2715 Knock Three Times hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in January 1971 for 3 weeks and in May 1975 He Dont Love You( Like I do) hit number one for 3 weeks ,..
This song truly defined a specific time period in U.S. history. It has multiple meanings depending on what age you were. As a child I didn't "get" that it was a soldier returning from Vietnam, but I loved the song! It was performed as a cover on many talk shows and variety shows. It was everywhere!
Way back when I first heard this song on the radio, I almost thought it was he was incarcerated. Then I found out you were right that he was inducted in the military because of his low draft number. I was lucky to have been high enough to have avoided the military. Even though it would have made my life easier because of all the benefits. But this was such a great song and thanks for the memories.
It is not about a soldier returning from Vietnam although it could be. It is about a guy that did time and prison, 3 years I think, and now he is coming home to his family
Below is an excerpt from an interview of the writer of the song: Story Behind the Song: 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon' Dave Paulson The Tennessean L. Russell Brown, left, and Bart Herbison A tale printed in Reader's Digest leaped off the page for songwriter L. Russell Brown. He shared the romantic Civil War-era story with his songwriting partner Irwin Levine, and together they wrote one of the biggest hits of the '70s: Tony Orlando and Dawn's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree." Brown shared the story behind the song with Bart Herbison of Nashville Songwriters Association International. Bart Herbison: People that weren't there don't remember the magnitude of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree." It was truly a cultural phenomenon. The song was on charts forever. It was a global masterpiece. Stories were written about it. TV shows use that thing. Irwin Levine was your co-writer. How did this song materialize? L. Russell Brown: I was reading the Reader's Digest. … I read it from front to back. There was an article … it was about a soldier coming home from Andersonville Prison in the Civil War and he was going to Pennsylvania. He told his girl in a letter, "I'll understand if I should stay on the stagecoach. But if I shouldn't, tie a big yellow handkerchief on the big oak tree outside of town. And then I'll know if it's there, I should get off, but I'll understand that you found someone else in the last three years." He couldn't bear to look at it himself. So he told the other people in the stagecoach and the driver to please look. … When they got to the big oak tree, everybody yelled and screamed. He looked out the window, and it was covered with yellow handkerchiefs. A chill went up my neck. I said, "My God!" … I said, "Boy, that would make a great song."
@@MannyTapia-r1y Below is an excerpt from an interview of the writer of the song: Story Behind the Song: 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon' Dave Paulson The Tennessean L. Russell Brown, left, and Bart Herbison A tale printed in Reader's Digest leaped off the page for songwriter L. Russell Brown. He shared the romantic Civil War-era story with his songwriting partner Irwin Levine, and together they wrote one of the biggest hits of the '70s: Tony Orlando and Dawn's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree." Brown shared the story behind the song with Bart Herbison of Nashville Songwriters Association International. Bart Herbison: People that weren't there don't remember the magnitude of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree." It was truly a cultural phenomenon. The song was on charts forever. It was a global masterpiece. Stories were written about it. TV shows use that thing. Irwin Levine was your co-writer. How did this song materialize? L. Russell Brown: I was reading the Reader's Digest. … I read it from front to back. There was an article … it was about a soldier coming home from Andersonville Prison in the Civil War and he was going to Pennsylvania. He told his girl in a letter, "I'll understand if I should stay on the stagecoach. But if I shouldn't, tie a big yellow handkerchief on the big oak tree outside of town. And then I'll know if it's there, I should get off, but I'll understand that you found someone else in the last three years." He couldn't bear to look at it himself. So he told the other people in the stagecoach and the driver to please look. … When they got to the big oak tree, everybody yelled and screamed. He looked out the window, and it was covered with yellow handkerchiefs. A chill went up my neck. I said, "My God!" … I said, "Boy, that would make a great song."
I grew up and became a mom in the 70s, I hear this song and I still get goosebumps when they get to the last part of the song. I still love listening to it.
Eleven and in the fifth grade at St. John Bosco Catholic School in Parma Heights, Ohio. Unfortunately, the school has been closed for many years now, but the memories of the best years live on. :~[ The 1980s were not too bad either, though each decade gets progressively worse to certain degrees. Music was great. Television was great. Everything under the sun was basically better.. :-]
Happy 50th anniversary to this great song! It was released right around this time in 1973!(It’s the end of March 2023 as I post my comment.) Here’s to another 50 years for this lively song to live on!!! Furthermore, I’ve been saying-partly to commemorate the “50th anniversary” of this song, and the fact that “it’s been three long years since Covid broke out; will it EVER end?” if I were a songwriter, I’d write a “remake” of this song this year for its 50th anniversary, and acknowledging the fact that “it’s been three long years, when will Covid end?” Or “will it ever be stamped out?” (Simply a remake of this song, on high hopes of putting an end to Covid, much less.) Even though things have come a fairly long way over the past three years, with vaccines and such and things are somewhat back to normal, still it could be even better. I know the premise of this song is the fact that 50 years ago this time those soldiers in the Vietnam war were finally just coming home(hence the Title, as the yellow ribbon symbolizes a soldier’s homecoming), but still, just to be creative if I were a songwriter, to make a remake of this song for its “50th anniversary,” and knowing how fed up everyone is of hearing about Covid, after “three long years.” Kind of like when Elton John wrote his own remake of Candle in the Wind,”Goodbye England’s Rose,” as a tribute to Princess Di when she died.
Hey Jamie Great comments you made. Here in Australia it is now 50 years ago when it was number one on the chsrts. I was turning 4 years old in May 1973 and it will go down as a classic. I still have the 45 record.
Tony Orlando and Dawn used to be my Saturday night with sonny and Cher and Lawrence Welk, with the love of my life, my grandmother Ruth🥰🥰 how I miss her and those beautiful days🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍
Notice how all of us in the 1970s were all thin and in good shape. It used to be very rare to see a person even slightly overweight then. I know we ate much less fast food and got a lot more exercise.
They were freakin huge, HUGE in the early 1970s. I remember my family went on a cross country trip driving from New York to California, and every radio station and juke box were playing T.O. and Dawn. Same with Jim Croce as well.
Tony Orlando always reminded me of freedy Prinze RiP or vice versa, I Love this one man, I miss the growin up in these great times!!!! Who's goin Back ta the 70's me please!!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐕🐬🐳🐅🐻🐖🐄
gracias por subir esta música, nunca me imagine´poder verla en video y a colores en el año de 1973, cuando solo la tocaban en la Pantera (una estación de radio de Mérida, Yuc, Mex.
+Gary Plastek A great song, somewhat reminiscent with Glenn Campbell's "Galveston" in referencing a soldier's service time in Vietnam. This song definitely made Tony Orlando relevant in the music world.
HighsNBurgers Hi, I’m very critical at times of how the US government treats its Vets...., but I’m also ashamed to say that our Vets here in New Zealand had to wait for 30 yrs before our Goverment finally gave them a parade through the city.... It’s fn shameful, when someone makes a stand on your behalf.. that’s not how you repay them..., ours and others all over the world were returned and sent home off base in civilian cloths... to hide their service😳🙄😪 We now do far better.., but still, ya can’t undo that BS!
I didn’t notice it watching the video. I guess I busy looking at Thelma Hopkins 😉 Then read some comments about Mr Orlando's package; but, since I'm not into looking at men's packages, I didn't check... thus never seen it, and have no intention to do it. On the other hand, I have no problem with checking Thelma again. 😁
Tony Orlando and Dawn - the name for me still reeks of avocado bathroom suits and lavender bath cubes. As a kid I liked the childlike musicality and sing-song nature of 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon', even if I didn't understand the songs true meaning.
Aunque ha pasado tanto tiempo, esta es una de las canciones de la década de los años 70 del siglo 20 que todavía me gusta escuchar. El mensaje de la canción es muy bonito y la voz de los 3 cantantes es estupenda. La música es muy buena también, y el video me gusta.
Just looked him up. He's did well. Cleaned up, found faith, and aged well. Good to hear as all my other 70's rock heros are dying, depressed, and looking bad....
Origins of the song ,The origin of the idea of a yellow ribbon as remembrance may have been the 19th-century practice that some women allegedly had of wearing a yellow ribbon in their hair to signify their devotion to a husband or sweetheart serving in the U.S. Cavalry. The song "'Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon", which later inspired the John Wayne movie She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, is a reference to this. The symbol of a yellow ribbon became widely known in civilian life in the 1970s as a reminder that an absent loved one, either in the military or in jail, would be welcomed home on their return. In October 1971, newspaper columnist Pete Hamill wrote a piece for the New York Post called "Going Home".[2] In it, he told a variant of the story, in which college students on a bus trip to the beaches of Fort Lauderdale make friends with an ex-convict who is watching for a yellow handkerchief on a roadside oak in Brunswick, Georgia. Hamill claimed to have heard this story in oral tradition. In June 1972, nine months later, Reader's Digest reprinted "Going Home". Also in June 1972, ABC-TV aired a dramatized version of it in which James Earl Jones played the role of the returning ex-con. According to L. Russell Brown, he read Hamill's story in the Reader's Digest, and suggested to his songwriting partner Irwin Levine that they write a song based on it.[3] Levine and Brown then registered for copyright the song which they called "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree". At the time, the writers said they heard the story while serving in the military. Pete Hamill was not convinced and filed suit for infringement. Hamill dropped his suit after folklorists working for Levine and Brown turned up archival versions of the story that had been collected before "Going Home" had been written.[4] Levine and Brown first offered the song to Ringo Starr, but Al Steckler of Apple Records told them that they should be ashamed of the song and described it as "ridiculous".[3]
That is actually quite tragic. Attaching your youth as the greatest times is really saying you stopped growing in several important ways. Let that phrase, that certain nostalgia, not poison the rest of your life.
This song just gives me the best feelings of my childhood: I sang this song at school (P.S. 174 in NY) in honor of the hostages returning home from Iran back in 1982. Beautiful rhythm and so happy that I got the chance to see the whole world, back in the 80s sharing just positive feelings and just working together. Thank you!
I'm comin' home, I've done my time Now I've got to know what is and isn't mine If you received my letter telling you I'd soon be free Then you'll know just what to do If you still want me, if you still want me Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree It's been three long years, do you still want me? If I don't see a ribbon round the ole oak tree I'll stay on the bus, forget about us, put the blame on me If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree Bus driver, please look for me 'Cause I couldn't bear to see what I might see I'm really still in prison and my love, she holds the key A simple yellow ribbon's what I need to set me free And I wrote and told her please Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree It's been three long years, do you still want me? If I don't see a ribbon round the ole oak tree I'll stay on the bus, forget about us, put the blame on me If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree Now the whole damned bus is cheerin' And I can't believe I see A hundred yellow ribbons round the ole oak tree I'm comin' home Tie a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree Tie a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree Tie a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree Tie a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
Song is so great. There's a sense of sad acceptance to the possibility that his love wont want him anymore after being away for so long. Just ONE single yellow ribbon is all he needs. And he comes to find the tree full of them, idk why that always hits me in the feels so hard.
I remember this year, and the great music we had! I am now 76, and smiling at the memories of good times, and good music! My husband was home safe from Vietnam…we had our first home, and life was good! He is still with me….how lucky I have been!
Blessings 😂🎉😊❤
Did you see the last time they preformed this? It's on RUclips too.
GodBless You and your family for many many years to come 💞
This reminds me about my Dad, when he came home 🏡 from Vietnam!
@@garybnkrI’m gonna have to watch I didn’t see it and I’m the Queen of You tube lol Thanks and good look out
I miss you mom, this is a old song that brings memories of you and my childhood, I wish we could go back , I turned 60 last month and I remembered when I was 7 and you were 27, where did the time go?
From Argentine what a great words bro!
😢same here
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I myself never knew my mum, least you had that, all the best anyway
Me pasa lo mismo con mi padre... Hace 5 años que fallecio y esta cancion me transporta a cuando era pequeño y el la ponia a todas horas 😢... Bueno, a lo mejor los que se han ido la están escuchando en otro sitio... Un abrazo a todos y buen día.
Music was so much better back in those days, times were much better and simpler.
Tony Orlando and Dawn show were put in the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour slot on CBS back then; It happened after that show was cancelled due to Cher splitting from Sonny. This clip I think is from another show where Orlando was a guest.
AMEN!
Why some have to put down others to make themselves feel "good" and "relevant" ? Insecurity SUCKZ
@@okapmeinkap7311 You said it.
I grew up in the late '90s and early 2000s and I really loved the time period between 2010 and 2013 for being VERY formative years for me... but FOR ME. PRIVATELY. I was blessed with a good upbringing and environment, but around the world, NO era was truly good or superior. The late '90s had a fair share of things that really sucked, the 2000s and 2010s as well.
It'd be one thing if people described enjoying their personal memories of their youth, but then there's people looking at the '60s and '70s with rose-tinted glasses with that "Ah, in the good old days when everything was BETTER and simpler!" (yeah... as long as you were not queer or non-caucasian. And no internet or smartphones means people could get away with crimes more easily, b-b-but just don't think about that! Also until 1973 you'd get drafted for war, aint that lovely?) there was a LOT of misery beneath the colors and cheery music everyone loves to reference.
Lol..ridiculous
This song is as relevant today as it was in 1973. It's truly timeless.
I agree!!
What?? To whom? You?
Yeah there is alot of dudes getting out of prison trying to hook up with old friends LOL
A soldier coming home.
Well said
I’m fortunate to have grown up during the 70’s and recall this wonderful music! 70’s music like this will last forever!
A wonderful time to be growing up, we were so lucky to have lived this era. Especially being a teenager in the 1980's. Would not have missed it for anything.😀😀😀
AMEN SISTER!! THANK GOD I GREW UP IN NORMAL TIMES
yeah...but not this....this is just too hokey!! lol
I agree me too
2023 - forever stuck in the 70’s.
RUclips is our time machine for great songs and memories.
Yes it is
I'm crying 😢 reminds me when I was a child,it would play on the radio my mom kept inthe kitchen. As she would be cooking,when the song came on,she'd crank up the volume. She so loved this song. I didn't wanna cry 😢 Miss her so much.
So nostalgic isnt it .😪 I too was a child then.
Beautiful memory of your childhood.
music has this amazing ability to transport you to bad and good times....
Abraço fraterno!
oh i felt a punch to the gut hearing this... I totally understand.. I miss mine so much too
So many memories I was young now I am 65. The time has gone by so fast. I love Tony Orlando and Dawn. ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Remember to suck the marrows out of life and to live deliberately each day so that when YOU are 130, 65 years from now, you will say to yourself I was only slightly older than the prior first 65 years young. Cheers!
yes me too, 63 years on me now
@@jimsix9929 *63 a young buck wait until yer 98 like me! Like me!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
@@okapmeinkap7311 god bless you sir, hope I make it that far my father is 91 still driving and getting around
@@okapmeinkap7311 I hope I get there!!
My dad’s favorite song. He would always keep the radio close to his head before to sleep. It has been 5 years since he left us. Missing u so much Papa😢
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Love this song always play it one of the best
Smile when you think of him.
Used to watch the show, with my dad, he also passed away couple years ago at the age of 97 , music like this from thar time period, was so much better. Miss you Daddy
So😢 Father is in heaven.Mother is luckily here still.Oh how I love her❤.
Army Vet - my dad's a retired Military Officer come from a family of Vets - Thank You for this song -- FREEDOM IS NEVER FREE !!!
Amen. I wish more understood that.
God bless from an ex squid.
For those who were around during Vietnam this song has a very emotional bind.
The song was also used during the Iranian Hostage Crisis
I'm interested what do you mean by this i got no hate here
For me it was two years later, fifty years later and I still wonder what might have been.
So many of us it reminds of us mom because mom is our HOME. I hope they play this in heaven for her. I can't speak about this song without crying . Today's music is horrible. I'd give anything to go back to these days. We are so lucky we got to experience those days.
I agree. However, for me, this is my generation, not my mom's. My mom was the 50s and early 60s. It also was country and western for her. She was a big singing cowboys fan. Me, I fell in love with 60s, 70s, and 80s Rock and Roll. Tony Orlando and Dawn was just one of my favorites. Elvis was another. The mid to late Beatles. Herman's Hermits, the Rolling Stones, the Eagles (yes, I like some of the crossovers and even some country), I also liked another of Pop and, believe it or not, I even liked Disco.
Feeling like time slowing until it's still. I legitimately don't understand what these full soft spirited hearts and beings are meant to live on this deteriorating planet. I wish we could channel the music to make chance
How can this possibly be nearly 50 years ago? I remember Tony Orlando and Dawn like it was yesterday!
I like Tony very much, and I have great respect for him.
Songs were songs and we all enjoyed singing along or just chilling out.
Ok geezer
@@raynabozny6309 If you're lucky, you'll live long enough to be a geezer, too.
"From Television City in Hollywood, CA........It's Tony Orlando and Dawn!"
I'm 52 yrs old now & still love this song...it's a absolute classic!!!
I was about 5 yrs old when this song came out...but I remember well...my mom & dad played it all the time on their 8-track player.
My mom is now 74 & my died 5 yrs ago at the age of 73.
When I hear this song I smile because it brings back SOME GREAT CHILDHOOD MEMORIES!!!
Much love from Mobile Alabama
Randy Miller: I, too, am 52 years old. My parents, big brother (who was a freshman or a sophomore in high school at the time), and I were living on Davis Monthon AFB in Tucson, Arizona when this song was released. I know the human brain will store random information and even the most unexpected memories which, I suppose, makes our species so unique. But after almost three decades, a very dear close friend who recently passed away from advanced pancreatic cancer played this song for me and, as I watched the vinyl record spinning around and around, I was immediately transferred back to 1973 (or did it come out in 1974?) I was suddenly holding my father's hand as our family crossed St. Mary's Blvd to enter and attend Catholic Church services. This church was located on the other side of the road (ac. This memory is, at best, two seconds long before disappearing back to my subconscious and all I am left with is how good it makes me feel. Thank you for your post/comment.
Yo con 50 y jamás dejaré de escucharla. Tan bella como tantas de esa prodigiosa década musical 🎼🎶🎼🎶🎼🎶💖💖💖👏👏👏👏👏👏
Lovely to read how so many people still listen to this amazing song....am 39 yrs now and would love to keep going on with these lovely melodies of yester years 😇 - from Chennai, India
I remember this being on the radio driving around with mom that summer . I'm 52 now and it always takes me back
I to am 54 years old& remember my mom& even grandma loved this song!! In 2022 we need anything to keep our minds off our country being destroyed by the current administration!! God bless you and keep your family safe in these crazy times!!✌️❤️🙏
I can’t believe tears are falling from my eyes. What a powerful tune!
Well, it makes me smile, that I am still alive now I am 77. Regards
Hopefully the tears on your cheeks are from laughter?😁
@@woodentie8815 thank you, but tears actually came from not seeing yellow ribbons on any tree.
really?? softie....
@@davidwright873 yeap! I can’t believe it but it did happen. I getting old ,I guess.
What I would give to have the 70s and 80s back. Those were the best years of my life.
Ditto!
Absolutely the best years of my life also ❤
Absolutely, and nothing else comes at all close since.
Coming back in 2070-80!😂
Yes!
Maybe..
What goes around comes around?
I truly pity the modern young generation growing up in these times.
Horrible, just horrible..
this song reminds me of my wife....just before I came back from Okinawa after being there for a year....she wrote a letter in 77 asking if I still wanted her.....been married for 43 years this July
Rick Sr. Flood awesome. Congratulations!!!
Congratulations, soldier.
You poor bastard lol lol lol
@@rondaallen7211 thank you.....
Asking if you still want her... how sweet! I hope you celebrate your 50th anniversary.
I think that I have not been the only one who cries when I hear this song, I remember that I was very young and when I heard this song with my mother we danced hugging each other. Currently my mother is in very delicate health (she is 90 years old).😢
No I cry like a bitch being a veteran and an ex convict
I'm crying when he sing that there is a hundred yellow ribbons round the old oak tree. That part really make me goosebumps.
Me too 😟☺️😟☺️. Smile and cry.
I can't help myself.
I get teary eyed when he says; "Now the whole damn bus is cheering"
I didn't cry but my eyes did get misty.
You and me both!
I remember watching this with my mother when I was a child, she passed in an accident two years later in 1975. RIP mom. I still think about you often and I still miss you.
I am so sorry that happened to you.
❤💔
Rest is peace your mother
May she rest in peace.Amen
I was just 7 or so when this came out but had my parents another 40 years +. Sorry your mom left so soon . But good you have memories stored with her.
I was dating a very nice girl when this song came out. There was a hugh pine tree in her yard. One night I made a huge yellow ribbon and tied it around the tree. When her and her family and the neighbors saw it the next day, they all started to laugh and smile. They all thought it was great. Her and I dated for some time..... those days were truly the greatest !!!!
She and I, dude, not her and I.
"Now the whole damn bus is cheering . . . " It's GREAT when people celebrate the good fortune of other people. Peace to all.
:)
@@AdamBechtol :)
Empathy. All the bus is cheering.
That part gives me chills
"Celebrate the good fortune of other people" is beautiful.
It's 2020 Now, When I was a Kid I thought we'd have flying cars by now LOL !
Funny
I did too
We had evel Knievel
You're right! I'M FEELING RIPPED OFF! Where's my FLYING CAR?!
Now we have flying virus:)
Watched this special episode on TV with my mom, dad, siblings . 1973 was a great time.
Who you telling....I miss the 70's
Reminds me of being a kid in the 70’s great era to grow up sad that kids today don’t get to experience growing up in a world like back then. Great song...
So true.MEMORIES.
Am 44 with lung disease. Still do construction and gardening.
Love Evel Knieval, Cannonball Run, Dukes of Hazzard and the A Team.
Am Irish, my ex Wife and twelve year old Son Jacob is successful at soccer and boxing.
But despite Bigg Fat Donald Trump doing his best, this world has become darker and more dangerous.
I blame the lefties and the computer nerds.
I mean, they control everything these days.
Shall watch Viva Knieval
Now.
Shalom. 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸🇮🇱
lol...it depends who you talk to, but the 70s were not that great. Lots of people faced adversity.
ABSO-FREAKIN-LUTLEY !!!
amen
I know I'm not the only one here thinking that music from the 60's,70's,80's, and some 90's and this 70's Gem "Tie A Yellow Ribbon " are past Eras that can never be emulated! If you feel this way too, I salute You!
I agree. '95 was just about where music in general took a nose dive.
"Knock Three Times" was the first song I remember hearing on my little transistor radio I got for Christmas in 1970. Too sweet!
@Mark Berryhill - Yes, I remember that one as well . They had a variety show as well .
My mum., who passed away in October 2020, loved this song .
I remember saving up my pocket money and walking into the town centre to buy it on vinyl on the Bell Record Label .
Then walking home and when she came home from work , sitting down with her to listen to it on their old record player .
I will never forget the smile on her face .
Good Times ❤
1970"s when times were good.
Huh?
Viet Nam.
Oh, yes, we all loved the war, didn't we? And we all loved Richard Nixon, although he was a thousand times better than the douchebag in the White House, now.
@@arthurharrison1345 Word!
@Ray DeOperator Sorry to hear that, I was in my teens so I had no worries, the only worry I had was what am I wearing to school tomorrow?
So many things have changed since then, but this one is still a great song to hear and enjoy.
I stumbled on this song just this year and i can't let go😢.
With love from Nigeria
yes good music has no borders, wish governments would think the same way
For all those who are "Tying a Yellow Ribbon" in 2021, You are my friend and I salute you!
I'm there!!!
Yes! Hellow I' d like to be your friend too.
@@MariaFlores-hu1vn Join us....Lots of ribbons! And dig those bell bottom pants....
Yes 😊
I'm in!!
Que gran voz e interpretación de Tony Orlando nos hacen falta estos cantantes para que continúen alegrándonos la vida.
Esa rola en mexico pego cuando salian del penal carcel era comun los recibian al salir con esa rola
Jajajajajajajajajaja
@@andresaparicio7769 no es de risas; es informativo; la historia de la cancion se basa en eso, y lo dice la letra.
TONY ORLANDO- ORGULLO BORICUA Y GRECO. NACIDO EN EL BARRIO BORICUA EN NUEVA YORK.
Those were the good old days! Thank you for the beautiful memories of days gone by ❤😊
When music was music !!!
rat patrol
And beautiful women were beautiful
Songs that bring back good childhood memories,when music meant something. Always puts a smile on my face 😃
Yessssssss!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💝
Thats right
As a Norwegian, after when I learned the meaning of the yellow ribbon, this song always manage to create some tears.
I wasn't even born when this song was a hit, but it's one of my favorite songs. So beautiful, so poetic, so nostalgic. Simply wonderful, I love it!
I remember when it came out. They used to play it quite frequently on the radio. I was 10 years old in 1973! I loved the introduction, and until this very day, I still do.✌️❤️
I remember tony , but I was just 3
@@Market-ro1gp
It was all over the radio and it was a huge hit for Tony Orlando and Dawn.
Wow, I was 17.
This song wasn't just another hit playing on the radio back in '73. It was THE biggest hit of that year and is one of the most recorded songs of all time.
2019 here
Hands up whose still watching?
2020 now!
Today.
And you know its true.
I play the guitar busking in Dublin, Ireland.
I like this song.
😃🇬🇧🇨🇮🇺🇸
2020. Germany.
july 2020 watching***************
my brother who passed 10 yrs ago loved this song and so do i! Maria in Sweden.
Ff,f
Nice way to remember 😁
maria eriksson God bless u
Sorry to hear about your brother. I can't imagine.
Much love from USA and another Scandinavian
I L💛VE this Song. First heard it the year I turned 21. People began to put yellow ribbons around trees in the local parks . A lot of Our Viet Nam Combat Vets were returning Home. Some were so disheartened from the things they'd seen and done. The Yellow Ribbons truly helped them to not feel so discouraged. The Song itself definitely seemed to Brighten their Spirits. 💙
This music is way better and timeless than today’s bullshit . Bravo 👏
My brother Ray Charles used to tell me, “Every music has its own soul, Quincy. It doesn't matter what style it is, just be true to it.” - Quincy Jones
@@orionred2489 THE Ray Charles who sang Hit the Road, Jack?
This is back when we had music we could dance to, and we did, and we had fun. Today's young adults don't know what they are missing.
You are going to get a lot of likes…Music now is bull💩
1970s music greatest music ever;; t❤ 1970s greatest ever made
I tied one for the love of my life. Left for Vietnam... And we were to suppose to marry when he returned but instead he came home in a Box.🤧❤️❤️🇱🇷
R.I.P. 🙏 we will be together soon. Always miss you Dearly my Love.🌷
sorry god bless x
I sm so sorry for your loss. I pray that our Lord lifts you up in His Mercy.
Condolences
Damn it, so so unfair! I pray that you get to see him again some day. There just has to be more the it than just this!!!!!
I couldn't imagine what that must have been like. hugs.
I was 10 turning 11 in 1973. I loved The Tony Orlando and Dawn Show. Variety shows were it in the 70s. I'm 61 now and this is the best memory ever. Smiling....
I am a qualified lesbian too
sonny and cher, carol burnett, donny and marie, i don't think there's a single variety show anymore.
@@paul-u2y9y yes, all of them. You’re right variety shows are a thing of the past. It’s all about reality show.
@@CHoskinsBurks I bet a big star like beyonce could have a great show, They could sing/rap/dance and do skits, have guest stars etc. i' bet it would work.
@CHoskinsBurks.
I came here to make the same comment, age and all!
I get tears of joy and happiness...watching this again..my dear God...how.I miss those times..
One of the "all-time-greats" songs. Just throws in relief how bad music is today. For the past 35 years, not even one song that can match this. Thank you, Tony Orlando. You contributed to humanity.
Please don't forget about "Dawn"...😁☮️❤️
I was born too late….1982…
You been sleeping under a rock those past 35 years if you don't think there is any music since 1973 that beats this one. Many of the songs of the 1980's will beat this one easily
Its hard to find, but there is good modern music, just isn't promoted by music labels and such. Have to find it yourself which isn't easy : |
What about Cardi B? She contributes her fat twerking ass to humanity. Who says there isn't great music nowadays??
Thank you very much for play ing this song very much ❤😂
I was only in my single digits when this song came out. And I’ve LOVED it forever!! My parents used to watch the Tony Orlando and Dawn show all the time when I was a kid. AMAZING MEMORIES!! ❤️
Single digits?
@@guineapiglady2841
I was around six. 6 is a “SINGLE” digit.
@@jimbigboystoys4077 Ok 🙂
6 . . . young but old enough to remember this music . . . Hell I was 6 in 1973 and I can even remember my first grade teacher name . . Mrs Inman and she was great . . . So yeah I remember this song very well from my childhood . . . And even now at 55 years old . . I still love this song. . . So 6 or 55 this is my kind of music and that's never going to change . . . I was young in 1973 . . . But atleast I was there in 1973 and that was as much apart of my life as today is . . . A lot of younger people only wish they had been around in 1973 . . . We were lucky and were there . . . We don't have to make excuses just because we were young and 1973 . . . We may have been young in '73 but it doesn't mean we were stupid and don't remember any of it .
TV was far more diverse than it is today.
While it was a big deal to have people of other races on the show, their skin colort wasn't the reason why they were there but the music or other performance that they were there to put on.
This is Real Music! The way it’s supposed to be sang. No flashing lights or vulgar language. No dancers, just good music. Miss those great songs
But the women are dancing in this video 😬
And "the whole *damn* bus is cheering"
Thats true.
And here's the beauty of America: a puerto rican and two blacks.....50 years ago....my point: always room at the top for hard work and talent
A lot 70’s are relaxing
I am 54, soon to be 55 and I still love this song also! And these three people.
I am a qualified lesbian too
I am going to see Tony Orlando tonight at Mohegan sun casino in Connecticut can't wait
I saw him in Lowell massachusetts for a show on his birthday and for little more you could go to his birthday party after. I think it was his 60th. Everyone could meet and talk to him after. I thought it would be a quick thing. He is such a great guy. He met and talked with everyone for as long as they wanted. He took photos, signed autographs. I didn’t get home until 3 in the morning. What a fantastic time. He is so personable.
oh! wish i could!! take care!!
GOOD FOR YOU....
Tell us about him
Seriously?????
Saw Tony in February and he still has a great voice and show.
Hi June
Wow! Lucky
The pants, the hair and mustache…iconic!!! I loved this song, never understood what he was talking about… but the song eventually got me and I got it!! ❤
don't forget the platform shoes.
Iconic how
Wonderful song with great melody and touching sentiment...Tony was great singing this...so great Frank Sinatra felt compelled to record it as one of the classic songs of the era...Dawn was fabulous too.
MAN THIS SONG NEVER GETS OLD I SIMPLY LOVE IT.
It got old to me (They played it so much back in the day), but it was nice to hear after not hearing it for awhile.
Cuantos de nosotros quisiéramos viajar al pasado y volver a vivir esos lindos momentos que nos marcaron todo la vida
This song - Tie A Yellow Ribbon - By Tony Orlando And Dawn peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in April 1973 for 4 weeks.
mike zollo, hearing this song, I'm right back there.
It was the time for Operation Homecoming, brought US soldier back from Viet Nam. 2 years later the communist won.
And it as Billboard's #1 song of 1973.
Do you know what other song of his reached No.1 and was top song of the year? Knock Three Times had the same distinction.
@@markberryhill2715 Knock Three Times hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in January 1971 for 3 weeks and in May 1975 He Dont Love You( Like I do) hit number one for 3 weeks ,..
2019.
But nothing compared to the music in the 70s along with the clothes.
My favorite pants were lite blue plaid bell bottoms.
Love this.❤️💝❤️
I remember wearing bell bottoms!
8th Grade, talent show. I sang this song for the first time in front of an audience. Still singing 50 years later. Good times.
Just beautiful, I am listening to this song in 2019. Still love it, gracias.
Hi silver
🎶🎼🎶🎼👏👏👏👏 ENERO 2022... 2 080...
I'm glad I'm not the only person crying in the comments
This song truly defined a specific time period in U.S. history. It has multiple meanings depending on what age you were. As a child I didn't "get" that it was a soldier returning from Vietnam, but I loved the song! It was performed as a cover on many talk shows and variety shows. It was everywhere!
Way back when I first heard this song on the radio, I almost thought it was he was incarcerated. Then I found out you were right that he was inducted in the military because of his low draft number. I was lucky to have been high enough to have avoided the military. Even though it would have made my life easier because of all the benefits. But this was such a great song and thanks for the memories.
It is not about a soldier returning from Vietnam although it could be. It is about a guy that did time and prison, 3 years I think, and now he is coming home to his family
Below is an excerpt from an interview of the writer of the song:
Story Behind the Song: 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'
Dave Paulson
The Tennessean
L. Russell Brown, left, and Bart Herbison
A tale printed in Reader's Digest leaped off the page for songwriter L. Russell Brown.
He shared the romantic Civil War-era story with his songwriting partner Irwin Levine, and together they wrote one of the biggest hits of the '70s: Tony Orlando and Dawn's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree." Brown shared the story behind the song with Bart Herbison of Nashville Songwriters Association International.
Bart Herbison: People that weren't there don't remember the magnitude of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree." It was truly a cultural phenomenon. The song was on charts forever. It was a global masterpiece. Stories were written about it. TV shows use that thing. Irwin Levine was your co-writer. How did this song materialize?
L. Russell Brown: I was reading the Reader's Digest. … I read it from front to back. There was an article … it was about a soldier coming home from Andersonville Prison in the Civil War and he was going to Pennsylvania. He told his girl in a letter, "I'll understand if I should stay on the stagecoach. But if I shouldn't, tie a big yellow handkerchief on the big oak tree outside of town. And then I'll know if it's there, I should get off, but I'll understand that you found someone else in the last three years." He couldn't bear to look at it himself. So he told the other people in the stagecoach and the driver to please look. … When they got to the big oak tree, everybody yelled and screamed. He looked out the window, and it was covered with yellow handkerchiefs. A chill went up my neck. I said, "My God!" … I said, "Boy, that would make a great song."
you Wrong! Is NOT a gut returning from Vietnam! Is about a Guy who made time in prision! Don't misinfom ! 😊
@@MannyTapia-r1y Below is an excerpt from an interview of the writer of the song:
Story Behind the Song: 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'
Dave Paulson
The Tennessean
L. Russell Brown, left, and Bart Herbison
A tale printed in Reader's Digest leaped off the page for songwriter L. Russell Brown.
He shared the romantic Civil War-era story with his songwriting partner Irwin Levine, and together they wrote one of the biggest hits of the '70s: Tony Orlando and Dawn's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree." Brown shared the story behind the song with Bart Herbison of Nashville Songwriters Association International.
Bart Herbison: People that weren't there don't remember the magnitude of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree." It was truly a cultural phenomenon. The song was on charts forever. It was a global masterpiece. Stories were written about it. TV shows use that thing. Irwin Levine was your co-writer. How did this song materialize?
L. Russell Brown: I was reading the Reader's Digest. … I read it from front to back. There was an article … it was about a soldier coming home from Andersonville Prison in the Civil War and he was going to Pennsylvania. He told his girl in a letter, "I'll understand if I should stay on the stagecoach. But if I shouldn't, tie a big yellow handkerchief on the big oak tree outside of town. And then I'll know if it's there, I should get off, but I'll understand that you found someone else in the last three years." He couldn't bear to look at it himself. So he told the other people in the stagecoach and the driver to please look. … When they got to the big oak tree, everybody yelled and screamed. He looked out the window, and it was covered with yellow handkerchiefs. A chill went up my neck. I said, "My God!" … I said, "Boy, that would make a great song."
Wow! Tony Orlando and Dawn sound so good! Brings back alot of great memories!
Wow such a sweet, happy, fun loving song. A simpler time back then and perhaps a better time too.
I grew up and became a mom in the 70s, I hear this song and I still get goosebumps when they get to the last part of the song. I still love listening to it.
It reminds me that I was young a long time ago.
Me too
I was in grade 3 ..❤️ 1973
4th grade @ St. Thomas Moore Elementary in Washington, D.C. A better time. 😇
I was 8 in 1973 😭
Eleven and in the fifth grade at St. John Bosco Catholic School in Parma Heights, Ohio.
Unfortunately, the school has been closed for many years now, but the memories of the best years live on. :~[
The 1980s were not too bad either, though each decade gets progressively worse to certain degrees.
Music was great.
Television was great.
Everything under the sun was basically better.. :-]
Happy 50th anniversary to this great song! It was released right around this time in 1973!(It’s the end of March 2023 as I post my comment.) Here’s to another 50 years for this lively song to live on!!!
Furthermore, I’ve been saying-partly to commemorate the “50th anniversary” of this song, and the fact that “it’s been three long years since Covid broke out; will it EVER end?” if I were a songwriter, I’d write a “remake” of this song this year for its 50th anniversary, and acknowledging the fact that “it’s been three long years, when will Covid end?” Or “will it ever be stamped out?” (Simply a remake of this song, on high hopes of putting an end to Covid, much less.) Even though things have come a fairly long way over the past three years, with vaccines and such and things are somewhat back to normal, still it could be even better. I know the premise of this song is the fact that 50 years ago this time those soldiers in the Vietnam war were finally just coming home(hence the Title, as the yellow ribbon symbolizes a soldier’s homecoming), but still, just to be creative if I were a songwriter, to make a remake of this song for its “50th anniversary,” and knowing how fed up everyone is of hearing about Covid, after “three long years.” Kind of like when Elton John wrote his own remake of Candle in the Wind,”Goodbye England’s Rose,” as a tribute to Princess Di when she died.
Hey Jamie Great comments you made. Here in Australia it is now 50 years ago when it was number one on the chsrts. I was turning 4 years old in May 1973 and it will go down as a classic. I still have the 45 record.
Happy 50 the🥰🥰🥰🥳🥳🥳🥳
Tony Orlando and Dawn used to be my Saturday night with sonny and Cher and Lawrence Welk, with the love of my life, my grandmother Ruth🥰🥰 how I miss her and those beautiful days🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍
@Craig Robinson-You’d be exactly my age, Craig; I turned 4 in April 1973.
@@MrJamieMurph4141969 Yeah. It was a good month at number 1 then Top of the world by The Carpenters was number 1 here in Australia after that.
Classic 70’s song. Many of us can resonate with this song .
Eu tinha 14 anos nessa época !E quando tocava nas radios eu aumentava o volume porque essa musica é simplesmente maravilhosa!Que saudades saudades!😢👏
This is a classic and iconic song, I grew up when this song came out. I feel nostalgic listening to it.
You miss your mom,will always.but you have those happy, precious memories, hang on to them.
I grew up with song,i know word for word.Thats how much i loved this song.. still singing this song..
At 57
Notice how all of us in the 1970s were all thin and in good shape. It used to be very rare to see a person even slightly overweight then. I know we ate much less fast food and got a lot more exercise.
I don't know what 70s you grew up in, but there were plenty of fatasses then too.
@@Mills25 Especially the HUGE beer guts. Remember those? We don't see that as much these days. That and white dog poop.
cocaine makes you thin guys
@Faithful Forever, totally agree with you, even in Mexico (my country) this a great truth
A timeless classic. 😊
They played this on radio so often. I got sick of it, but it's a great song.
Really brings back memories.
They were freakin huge, HUGE in the early 1970s. I remember my family went on a cross country trip driving from New York to California, and every radio station and juke box were playing T.O. and Dawn. Same with Jim Croce as well.
I love this song very much thank you
Love these pop songs.... happy, none political ..sing them without a care in the world.😚
Tony Orlando always reminded me of freedy Prinze RiP or vice versa, I Love this one man, I miss the growin up in these great times!!!! Who's goin Back ta the 70's me please!!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐕🐬🐳🐅🐻🐖🐄
Italianoboy1gmail
They had similarities but I loved the way tony looked
I'm pretty sure they both were from Puerto Rico,and become stars around the same era.
They were close friends. Tony never fully recovered from the Prinze suicide.
Freddie Prinze was far cuter, more slender
@@BroccoliBeefed They look very similiar
THIS SONG IS STILL A PURE CLASSIC AFTER 49 YEARS.
Thelma Hopkins. very beautiful
Beautiful and the funny one one the show! no wonder her career went beyond just being back up.
She is gorgeous
And she she still is .👍✌
"Thelma Hopkins. very beautiful"
As she would say if she saw this, "Get the H out of here, my name is Telma"!
*Telma
Such a great song wish we still had singers like that these days
Tengo 17 años y es de mis canciones favoritas ¡Que grandes fueron los 70s!
Yo los viví y fueron muy hermosos esos años
@@javiervazquez6000 dios te bendiga afortunado amigo...
Tu lo has dicho ..
No olvides el regueton de los 2023
@@gerardogallardo7824 asco de musica
gracias por subir esta música, nunca me imagine´poder verla en video y a colores en el año de 1973, cuando solo la tocaban en la Pantera (una estación de radio de Mérida, Yuc, Mex.
Yo soy yucateco
Vivo aquí en Mérida Yucatán en ciudad caucel
@@franciscojaviercortezmalpi3421 entonces estás bien cabezón jajajajajajaj
@@arthurhistder1156 la verdad si mi estado y las damas que me han conocido me lo alagan
@@franciscojaviercortezmalpi3421 no mames la bajaste de a pechito jajajajajajajaj
Was a song during the Vietnam War and many a soldier came home to find yellow ribbons all over the trees.
+Gary Plastek A great song, somewhat reminiscent with Glenn Campbell's "Galveston" in referencing a soldier's service time in Vietnam. This song definitely made Tony Orlando relevant in the music world.
+Gary Plastek The lyrics refer to still being in prison.
It was actually written about a man getting out of Prison.
Gary - The song was post-war no one ever connected it with Vietnam except you. Yellow ribbons are not what most 'Nam vets came home to.
HighsNBurgers
Hi, I’m very critical at times of how the US government treats its Vets...., but I’m also ashamed to say that our Vets here in New Zealand had to wait for 30 yrs before our Goverment finally gave them a parade through the city....
It’s fn shameful, when someone makes a stand on your behalf.. that’s not how you repay them..., ours and others all over the world were returned and sent home off base in civilian cloths... to hide their service😳🙄😪
We now do far better.., but still, ya can’t undo that BS!
Long live RUclips for these gems!
What a blast from the past! I was five years old when this song was playing on the radio!
Love this song. Though, why did some of you have to mention Mr Orlando's package, now I can't unsee it!! Ffs....
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Didn’t notice nor care ..not to be mean
That’s the first thing I noticed 😂😂😂
I didn’t notice it watching the video. I guess I busy looking at Thelma Hopkins 😉
Then read some comments about Mr Orlando's package; but, since I'm not into looking at men's packages, I didn't check... thus never seen it, and have no intention to do it.
On the other hand, I have no problem with checking Thelma again. 😁
Read your comment before watching..wtf did Tony do as I didn't think commando was a thing back then.lol
I didn't notice until you mentioned it....and of course I scrolled back up. lol
Tony Orlando and Dawn - the name for me still reeks of avocado bathroom suits and lavender bath cubes.
As a kid I liked the childlike musicality and sing-song nature of 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon', even if I didn't understand the songs true meaning.
Now I'm the old tree, years go really fast!
still wear ayellow ribbon when i have to meet someone new
My goodness, yes they did.
Aunque ha pasado tanto tiempo, esta es una de las canciones de la década de los años 70 del siglo 20 que todavía me gusta escuchar. El mensaje de la canción es muy bonito y la voz de los 3 cantantes es estupenda. La música es muy buena también, y el video me gusta.
Just looked him up. He's did well. Cleaned up, found faith, and aged well. Good to hear as all my other 70's rock heros are dying, depressed, and looking bad....
Origins of the song ,The origin of the idea of a yellow ribbon as remembrance may have been the 19th-century practice that some women allegedly had of wearing a yellow ribbon in their hair to signify their devotion to a husband or sweetheart serving in the U.S. Cavalry. The song "'Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon", which later inspired the John Wayne movie She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, is a reference to this. The symbol of a yellow ribbon became widely known in civilian life in the 1970s as a reminder that an absent loved one, either in the military or in jail, would be welcomed home on their return.
In October 1971, newspaper columnist Pete Hamill wrote a piece for the New York Post called "Going Home".[2] In it, he told a variant of the story, in which college students on a bus trip to the beaches of Fort Lauderdale make friends with an ex-convict who is watching for a yellow handkerchief on a roadside oak in Brunswick, Georgia. Hamill claimed to have heard this story in oral tradition. In June 1972, nine months later, Reader's Digest reprinted "Going Home". Also in June 1972, ABC-TV aired a dramatized version of it in which James Earl Jones played the role of the returning ex-con. According to L. Russell Brown, he read Hamill's story in the Reader's Digest, and suggested to his songwriting partner Irwin Levine that they write a song based on it.[3] Levine and Brown then registered for copyright the song which they called "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree". At the time, the writers said they heard the story while serving in the military. Pete Hamill was not convinced and filed suit for infringement. Hamill dropped his suit after folklorists working for Levine and Brown turned up archival versions of the story that had been collected before "Going Home" had been written.[4]
Levine and Brown first offered the song to Ringo Starr, but Al Steckler of Apple Records told them that they should be ashamed of the song and described it as "ridiculous".[3]
Absolutely love this song!!!!
Oooooooohhhh 🎼🎶🎼🎶🎼🎶🎼👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 masterpiece!!!!
You do not need a lot of hits you just need a MEGA Hit and this was a MEGA HIT.....played on every station and bought by millions.
The greatest times of my life when this was on TV.
Yes, the good old days how miss them
That is actually quite tragic. Attaching your youth as the greatest times is really saying you stopped growing in several important ways. Let that phrase, that certain nostalgia, not poison the rest of your life.
You could say that 1973 was the last really good year of the 70s. Things started really going downhill around 1974.
@@scdevon No No, the disco era came in and we danced all night long at Studio 54, The Ice Palace 57 in NYC, Infinity, Xenon, to say the least...
Same here. I was 4.
Aquí en México se escucho mucho está canción aún en estaciones que programaban música en nuestro idioma.
This song just gives me the best feelings of my childhood: I sang this song at school (P.S. 174 in NY) in honor of the hostages returning home from Iran back in 1982. Beautiful rhythm and so happy that I got the chance to see the whole world, back in the 80s sharing just positive feelings and just working together. Thank you!
Who knew this song because of their grandparents 😂👍🏼
I'm comin' home, I've done my time
Now I've got to know what is and isn't mine
If you received my letter telling you I'd soon be free
Then you'll know just what to do
If you still want me, if you still want me
Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
It's been three long years, do you still want me?
If I don't see a ribbon round the ole oak tree
I'll stay on the bus, forget about us, put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
Bus driver, please look for me
'Cause I couldn't bear to see what I might see
I'm really still in prison and my love, she holds the key
A simple yellow ribbon's what I need to set me free
And I wrote and told her please
Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
It's been three long years, do you still want me?
If I don't see a ribbon round the ole oak tree
I'll stay on the bus, forget about us, put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
Now the whole damned bus is cheerin'
And I can't believe I see
A hundred yellow ribbons round the ole oak tree
I'm comin' home
Tie a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
Tie a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
Tie a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
Tie a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
Hi beautiful
I remember listening to this song on my little AM transistor radio when it came out around age 8 or 9. Such a happy song!
I loved this song as a kid. I'm 50 now
Song is so great. There's a sense of sad acceptance to the possibility that his love wont want him anymore after being away for so long. Just ONE single yellow ribbon is all he needs. And he comes to find the tree full of them, idk why that always hits me in the feels so hard.
i remember the yellow ribbons for the hostages in iran
Hi beautiful