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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.
"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.
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. The album featured Craddock's first top ten hit, "Knock Three Times".
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.
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)
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Orlando was singing under the group name "Dawn" in order to avoid problems with his contract with his other label, CBS. However, after the success of the album tracks "Candida" and "Knock Three Times", he invited two other singers to become the real-life "Dawn", and then "Tony Orlando and Dawn" could tour in support of the songs. [2]