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Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis (born April 3, 1944), known professionally as Tony Orlando, is an American pop/rock [1] singer, songwriter, and music executive whose career spans nearly seven decades. He is best known for his work as part of Tony Orlando and Dawn. In 1993, he opened the Tony Orlando Yellow Ribbon Music Theatre in Branson ...
Tony Orlando was born Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis on April 3, 1944. [1] Orlando recorded through the 1960s with only moderate chart success. He had three Top 40 hits, two in 1961 and another in 1969 as the lead singer for the studio group Wind.
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 ...
"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 that a different vocal approach ...
The unlikely grouping of Tony Orlando with Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt and Patti Scialfa of the E Street Band sang backup for Freedom Bremner and Mark Rivera on the Beatles' classic ...
Tony Orlando was born Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis on April 3, 1944. [1] After almost a decade of singing and with only three Top 40 hits, two in 1961 and another in 1969 as the lead singer for the studio group Wind, he had not had any further successes. He stopped singing entirely, and by 1970 he was a retired demo singer.
Medress did not like the sound of the lead singer, and replaced him with his friend Tony Orlando who had already enjoyed limited success singing "Bless You" and "Halfway to Paradise" in 1961. By 1970, Orlando had abandoned his singing career and was working as an executive at April-Blackwood Music, a subsidiary of Columbia Records.
Wine in 1966. Toni Wine (born June 4, 1947) is an American pop music songwriter, who wrote songs for such artists as The Mindbenders ("A Groovy Kind of Love"), Tony Orlando and Dawn ("Candida"), and Checkmates, Ltd. ("Black Pearl") in the late 1960s and 1970s.