C/D: Dawn & Tony Orlando

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Okay, I know somebody will get on me about this: Tony Orlando was technically a member of Dawn, but later the group changed the way the name was arranged.

I got a 45 of them today of two songs I'd never heard before: Sweet Soft Sounds of Love/Summer Sands. Liked the second one better. I know a good number of their other songs, but...what the fuck do people make of this stuff?

― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 2 July 2006 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link

bang on the pipes...

― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 2 July 2006 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Uhhhh, it has to be 'Tony Orlando and Dawn', else it doesn't rhyme with 'donuts on your lawn'.

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Monday, 3 July 2006 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link

ah ha.

I kinda like dawn and tony orlando.

like the brawny boney m. piano.

seriously though-- what do people think of this? is it teh suck? or fun music for insipid people to drink cocktails to?

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 3 July 2006 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link

what do you think?

― lf (lfam), Monday, 3 July 2006 05:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I have no problem with the concepts of "fun" and "cocktails" and dunno what's particularly "insipid" about 'em. As for Dawn/Dawn featuring Tony Orlando/Tony Orlando & Dawn (hits under all three names!), all I know are the singles. Of which: I mostly hate their later vaudeville-revival crap, but really like 1970-71 hits ("Candida", "Knock Three Times", "Vaya Con Dios" - all sounding like the same song, really) with their vaguely Latin rhythms and mariachi horns. First-rate baion-bubblegum, as Xhuxk might describe it (if he hasn't already.)

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Monday, 3 July 2006 06:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Couldn't stand them at all. We only got the bubblegum and the vaudeville-revival crap and it was all ghastly. "Tie A Yellow Ribbon" was in our charts for 40 bloody weeks. Terrible bloody group, unless you know different.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Pulp quoted "What Are You Doing Sunday" on "Disco 2000." They made some good singles, for sure.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:33 (eighteen years ago) link

candida vs chlamydia

― dave q (listerine), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Uhhhh, it has to be 'Tony Orlando and Dawn', else it doesn't rhyme with 'donuts on your lawn'.

OTFM!

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Candida Doyle, indeed.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link

What I'd like to know is what they did beyond the hits. Did they go into darker and more adventurous corners?

I know the sample on Estelle's "1990" comes from a Dawn track so I suspect there may be a substantial answer here.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Howabout..

TONY ORLANDO AND DAWN Look Into My Eyes Pretty Woman (1974 UK Bell label 7" b/w My Love Has No Pride, BELL1410) -

A single on Bell, where a hypnotist uses his powers for his own sleazy endzz... (and confesses all on the b-side)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link

That's not what it's really about, though, is it?

(unlike "Knock Three Times" which is by far the creepiest of several stalking songs to get to number one)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:18 (eighteen years ago) link

"Hey Girl. what you doing down there?"

.. was a line that was always good for the roffles, back then...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link

It's astonishing that Frankie Howerd never recorded a cover version.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link

"Knock Three Times" must have been one of my ten favorite songs when it was relatively new. I haven't heard it recently though.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

>("Candida", "Knock Three Times", "Vaya Con Dios" - all sounding like the same song, really) with their vaguely Latin rhythms and mariachi horns. First-rate baion-bubblegum, as Xhuxk might describe it (if he hasn't already.) <

Yeah, more or less: in my second book I call their castanet-and-horn rhythm an ancestor of Santa Esmeralda and the Gipsy Kings...

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

"Read how many times I saw you."

Cue Jodie Foster in The Panic Room.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I liked "He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)" too. I don't think I've actually given Tony Orlando & Dawn any thought as an adult.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, more or less: in my second book I call their castanet-and-horn rhythm an ancestor of Santa Esmeralda and the Gipsy Kings

*consults book*
Hmmm, indeed you did!

― Myonga Von Bonhomie (Monty Von Byonga), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 06:49 (eighteen years ago) link

How does the TV show figure into this? It was kind of a poor man's Sonny and Cher variety hour, IIRC. They sang "TAYR(RTOOT)" every other episode, I think. I also seem to remember a modern retelling of the story of Cinderella in which mean old sister Telma reported that the main musical attraction at the ball would be "Elfin John."

― The Player In The Redd Cap (Two-Headed Doge) (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link

And yeah, like everybody else, I liked the Latin-flavored bubblegum a lot when it came out, and not so much the pre-Billy Joel nostalgia pieces.

― The Player In The Redd Cap (Two-Headed Doge) (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Stay on the bus, forget about us, put the blame on me...

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Of minor note: That's Telma Hopkins (1/2 of Dawn) telling Isaac Hayes "Shut your mouth!" when he's just talkin' bout Shaft. (Didn't know that til now, myself.)

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link

what do you think?

I'm not really certain, though I guess that I agree with people about their many good early singles. I don't know their album work so well. I have been listening to "Summer Sands" twice a day or so....

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Destroy: Tony's lounge singing as Sammy The Starfish on the children's cartoon Oswald.

― The Player In The Redd Cap (Two-Headed Doge) (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

seventeen years pass...

TIL that the group billed as Dawn that recorded the hits "Candida" and "Knock Three Times" were completely different singers from the group Tony Orlando & Dawn that did "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree," with the exception of Tony Orlando singing in both groups.

― Josefa, Saturday, 9 March 2024 20:03 (nine months ago) link

TO is still A

― Mark G, Saturday, 9 March 2024 20:05 (nine months ago) link

He’s looking pretty damn youthful too

― Josefa, Saturday, 9 March 2024 20:34 (nine months ago) link

Forever classic for inspiring the best Yo La Tengo song (via Simpsons)

― J. Sam, Saturday, 9 March 2024 22:49 (nine months ago) link

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