Tony Orlando & Dawn is tagged as: 70s, oldies, pop, soft rock, male vocalists Tony Orlando and Dawn (originally known as Dawn, and later as Dawn featuring Tony Orlando) was a pop music group that was very popular in the 1970s. Their signature hits were “Candida”, “Knock Three Times”,”Tie a Yellow Ribbon ‘Round the Ole Oak Tree”, and “He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You)”. In 1970, Tony Orlando was a retired cover singer. He had two Top 40 hits in 1961 and another in the later half of the decade as the lead singer for the studio group Wind, but he had not had any further success for the rest of the decade. He stopped singing entirely, publishing music for Columbia Records instead. Orlando discovered a song, “Candida,” which he decided to pass on recording. After an insistence that he dub his voice over the male vocals in the original track, he had the single released on Bell Records as performed by “Dawn”, so if the record did not succeed, he would not be known as the lead vocalist. The background singers were Sharon Greane, Jay Siegel, and Toni Wine, who co-wrote the song. After single hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Orlando decided to change career tracks. While “Candida” climbed the record charts, Orlando discovered that there were six touring g... Read More About Tony Orlando & Dawn Biography...  Send Tony Orlando & Dawn ringtones to your cell
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