It could've been a Ringo Starr song. When Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown -- the same songwriting pair responsible for Tony Orlando & Dawn's mind-boggling piece of shit "Knock Three Times" -- wrote ...

'Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree' told a story listeners couldn’t forget ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Windsor lives in Nashville, Tennessee and writes about music. Singer/songwriter Tony Orlando just wrapped up his Farewell Tour ...

You may know her as bitter divorcée Phyllis Thorne on UPN's Half & Half, or as Nell Carter's skinny sidekick on Gimme a Break, but way back in the day, Telma Hopkins was also one-third of the ...

Curious title reference aside, neither Tony Orlando & Dawn nor returning G.I.'s have anything to do with the low-key Amerindie dramatics of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon," writer-director Joy Dietrich's ...

CONTRARY TO pop culture lore, the practice of displaying a yellow ribbon for someone overseas didn’t start with Tony Orlando and Dawn. The 1970s pop group’s “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree ...

In the early 1970s, one deeply sentimental song quietly found its way into people’s hearts, telling a simple, emotional story that stayed with them long after it ended. Tony Orlando and Dawn's “Tie a ...