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Knock Three Times. " 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. It reached No. 2 on ' Billboard ' s "Easy Listening" survey. [1]
The songwriting duo of Levine and Brown had also penned other Tony Orlando and Dawn hits, including "Knock Three Times" and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree". According to Orlando, Levine was a fan of singer Al Jolson and proposed the concept of "Say, Has Anybody Seen..." to producer Hank Medress. Orlando is quoted as saying: "Irwin ...
Candida (song) "Look At..." " Candida " was the first single released by the American pop music group Dawn, with vocals by Tony Orlando, in July 1970. The song, written by Irwin Levine and Toni Wine, was produced by Dave Appell and Hank Medress for Bell Records. Appell and Medress originally recorded another singer on the track, but decided ...
Knock Three Times is a country album by Billy "Crash" Craddock. It was released on Cartwheel Records in 1971. It was re-released in 1973 on ABC Records. The album featured Craddock's first top ten hit, "Knock Three Times". Track listing. Knock Three Times" (Irwin Levine, L. Russell Brown) - 2:30 "Country Pride" (Dale Morris, J. Sahnger) - 2:58
See media help. " Shave and a Haircut " and the associated response " two bits " is a seven-note musical call-and-response couplet, riff or fanfare popularly used at the end of a musical performance, usually for comedic effect. It is used melodically or rhythmically, for example as a door knocker. "Two bits" is a term in the United States and ...
Rub It In. "Rub It In" is a song written and originally recorded by Layng Martine Jr., and credited as Layng Martine. His version, released on the Barnaby Records label, was produced by Ray Stevens and was a U.S. chart single in the fall of 1971, reaching number 65. Billy "Crash" Craddock recorded the song three years later on the album Rub It ...
The ensemble then recorded the follow-up song "Knock Three Times", which topped the Hot 100 on 23 January - 6 February 1971. [2] Bell Records was desperate to have a real-life act to promote Dawn's records. Orlando asked former Motown/Stax backing vocalists Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson to become Dawn. The threesome then went on the ...
An excerpt of "I'm Gonna Knock on Your Door" was used in the Buchanan and Goodman 1961 break-in novelty recording entitled "Berlin Top Ten" which dealt with the Berlin Wall crisis, during the Cold War. Boris the Russian Spinner, introduces the song as "I'm Gonna Knock on your Door" by the Secret Police, but it is interrupted by a breaking news ...