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    Tony Orlando

    1944-04-03 (80 years old) in

    Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis (born April 3, 1944), better known as Tony Orlando, is an Americanshow business professional, best known as the lead singer of the group Tony Orlando and Dawn in the early 1970s. Discovered by producer Don Kirshner, Orlando had songs on the charts in 1961 when he was 16, "Halfway to Paradise" and "Bless You". Orlando then became a producer himself, and at an early age was promoted to a vice-president position at CBS Records, where he was in charge of the April-Blackwood Music division. He sang under the name "Dawn" in the 1970s, and when the songs became hits, he went on tour and the group became "Tony Orlando and Dawn". They had several songs which were major hits including "Candida", "Knock Three Times", and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree". The group hosted a variety program, "The Tony Orlando and Dawn Show" on CBS from 1974–76, and then broke up in 1978. Orlando then continued as a solo singer, performing in Las Vegas and Branson, Missouri.[1] Orlando has hosted the New York City portions of the MDA Labor Day Telethon on WWOR-TV since the 1980s but quit in 2011 in response to Jerry Lewis' firing from the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

    Movies

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    Gone Before His Time: Freddie Prinze Sr.
    0 %|Dec 20, 2023
    Documentary
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    Sandy Wexler
    55 %|Apr 14, 2017
    Comedy
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    That's My Boy
    58.22 %|Jun 14, 2012
    Comedy, Drama
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    Waking Up in Reno
    50 %|Dec 13, 2002
    Comedy, Romance
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    The Kingdom Chums - Original Top Ten
    85 %|Jan 1, 1990
    Animation
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    Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story
    0 %|Dec 8, 1982
    Drama, TV Movie
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    Lynda Carter: Street Life
    0 %|Mar 5, 1982
    Music, TV Movie
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    300 Miles for Stephanie
    0 %|Jan 12, 1981
    Drama, TV Movie
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    A Star Is Born
    60 %|Dec 17, 1976
    Drama, Music, Romance

    Series

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    Dice
    66 %|Apr 10, 2016
    Comedy
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    Las Vegas
    70 %|Sep 22, 2003
    Drama, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Crime
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    Oswald
    69 %|Aug 20, 2001
    Animation, Family, Kids
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    MADtv
    68.77 %|Oct 14, 1995
    Comedy
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    The Cosby Show
    70 %|Sep 20, 1984
    Comedy, Family
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    Tony Orlando and Dawn
    35 %|Dec 4, 1974
    Family, Comedy
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    Dinah!
    65 %|Oct 21, 1974
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    Chico and the Man
    58 %|Sep 13, 1974
    Comedy
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    The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
    53 %|Sep 14, 1973
    Comedy
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    The Mike Douglas Show
    51 %|Dec 11, 1961
    Comedy, Talk
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    The Mike Douglas Show
    51 %|Dec 11, 1961
    Comedy, Talk