Tony Orlando & Dawn
June, 1974
Back in 1961, a New York kid named Tony Orlando made his American Bandstand debut singing Halfway to Paradise, which Carole King wrote for him. He was really in the clouds: "It was enough just to bring a record back to my block and say 'Look, man, I did this for a real record company.'" But a few years later, the British invasion forced a lot of American singers to find other vocations. Orlando, desperate to stay in music, found his in publishing and became vice-president of a CBS subs...
