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"Knock Three Times" is a popular song credited simply to "Dawn", obscuring the actual performers. The song was released as a single which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1971 and eventually sold six million copies.
The threesome then went on the road in 1971, on the success of "Candida" and "Knock Three Times". After a tour of Europe, Hopkins and Vincent assumed background vocal duties in the studio, first recording on the late 1971 album Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando. The first single with their voices in the background was "Runaway/Happy Together" in 1972.
Knock Three Times is a country album by Billy "Crash" Craddock. [2] It was released on Cartwheel Records in 1971. It was re-released in 1973 on ABC Records.
Lawrence "Larry" Russell Brown [1] (born June 29, 1940), known as L. Russell Brown, is an American lyricist and composer.He is most noted for his songs, co-written with Irwin Levine, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" [2] and "Knock Three Times"—international hits for the 1970s pop music group Tony Orlando and Dawn.
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications; US [1]AUS [2]CAN [3]NOR [4]Candida: Released: November 1970; Label: Bell Formats: LP, MC, 8-track 35 — 26 — Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando
Joyce Vincent Wilson (born Joyce Vincent, [1] December 14, 1946) is an American singer, best known as part of the group Tony Orlando and Dawn. [2] Wilson was later in Former Ladies of the Supremes, despite not being a member of the vocal group, although, she was considered to be the replacement for Mary Wilson of The Supremes in 1977, but with Wilson being the lone original member still in the ...
One of the songs is anachronistic for a story set in the summer of 1970: "Knock Three Times" was released in 1971. "Sugar, Sugar" – The Archies (2:45) "Knock Three Times" – Tony Orlando and Dawn (2:54) "I Want You Back" – The Jackson 5 (2:53) "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" – Stevie Wonder (2:39) "Band of Gold" – Freda Payne (2:53)
"Knock Three Times" (1971) "Candida" was the first single released by the American pop music group Dawn, with vocals by Tony Orlando, in July 1970.