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"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 ...
Candida is a 1970 album by Dawn, a studio session group including Tony Orlando, Toni Wine, and Linda November.Orlando was singing under the group name "Dawn" in order to avoid problems with his contract with his other label, CBS.
On the American Top 40 radio episode for the week ending October 3, 1970, host Casey Kasem stated that the lead singer of Dawn was Frankie Spinelli; obviously this alias was used to further obscure Tony Orlando's true identity as the lead singer on Candida. A few weeks later on the American Top 40 episode for the week ending October 31, 1970 ...
The Tony Orlando & Dawn Collection: Released: 1979; Label: Arista/Capitol Special Markets; ... As Dawn "Candida" 1970 3 8 9 2 11 18 — — 2 9 UK: Silver; RIAA: Gold;
When his song "Candida" became an international number-one song, he began to use his name in the group becoming "Dawn featuring Tony Orlando" and then "Tony Orlando and Dawn". The group had 19 other top 40 tracks, including "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", the top-selling hit of 1973 and one of the biggest selling singles of all time.
The singers were veterans of the "Candida" recording session, and Wine was co-writer of "Candida" with Levine. They recorded "Knock Three Times" together. [3] This was the first time Orlando met any of the musicians involved with "Candida". [5] "Knock Three Times" hit No. 1 in January 1971.
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 ...
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.