Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
Artist: Dawn featuring Tony Orlando Weeks at #1: 4 weeks Chart dates: April 21, 1973 – May 12, 1973
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"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" is a song recorded by Tony Orlando and Dawn. It was written by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown and produced by Hank Medress and Dave Appell, with Motown/Stax backing vocalist Telma Hopkins, Joyce Vincent Wilson and her sister Pamela Vincent on backing vocals. It was a worldwide hit for the group in 1973. The single reached the top 10 in ten countries, in eight of which it topped the charts. It reached No.1 on both the US and UK charts for four weeks in April 1973, No.1 on the Australian chart for seven weeks from May to July 1973 and No.1 on the New Zealand chart for ten weeks from June to August 1973. It was the top-selling single in 1973 in both the US and UK. In 2008, approximately a year before the death of Cory Aquino, Billboard ranked the song as the 37th biggest song of all time in its issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100. For the 60th anniversary in 2018, the song still ranked in the top 50, at No.46. This song is the origin of the yellow color of her Liberal Party, which is the party that ousted the Marcos dictatorship in the People Power Revolution of 1986.
