Tony Orlando & Dawn - The Ultimate Collection (3-DVD Set)

Tony Orlando & Dawn - The Ultimate Collection (3-DVD Set)

Tony Orlando & Dawn - The Ultimate Collection (3-DVD Set)
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Actor: Tony Orlando & Dawn
Brand: RESPOND2 ENT.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 540 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: R2 Entertainment
Product features:
  • Although their names aren't often recalled by music historians, Tony Orlando & Dawn made a sizeable impact on the music scene in the 1970s. By 1974 they had become so popular that CBS offered the duo their own variety show, and this collection gathers nine hours of highlights from the program, which ran until 1977. Combining sketch comedy and musical performances, Tony and Dawn provided plenty

DVD Reviews of Tony Orlando & Dawn - The Ultimate Collection (3-DVD Set)

DVD Review: Great Coverage of old TV Show
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a great collection to have in library. I had forgotten how funny "Dawn" were with their one liners. Tony Orlando & Dawn's singing is great and the guests are entertaining. Color and sound quality are great. This collection brings back the memories of what TV used to be when there were great variety shows.

DVD Review: Tony Orlando & Dawn - The Ultimate Collection
Summary: 5 Stars

The DVD's are great. If you liked Tony Orlando's TV show, you will really like these DVD's.

DVD Review: great tv show...
Summary: 3 Stars

THE TONY ORLANDO &DAWN SHOW BRINGS BACK GREAT TIMES FOR ME I AM INJOYING IT A LOT THANK YOU....

DVD Review: The love of the 1970's TV variety shows from a 1970's pop culture fan.
Summary: 5 Stars

Today's prime-time TV may have your share of sit-coms, game shows, and SOME reality shows that are ok, but other shows like TODAY's crime dramas and news programs aren't well wouth watching. Go back in time when it was all right watching those wholesome family variety shows that network TV lacks today. Of course times were tough during the mid 70's, but television prime-time back then had those happy wholesome variety shows that helped provide a breath of fresh air. "Tony Orlando and Dawn" was a great example. Tony Orlando reached out to his live audience and home viewers to forget about the tough times America was going through and just think positive thoughts.
I really like this DVD! I just can't get enough of it!

DVD Review: Great, but incomplete
Summary: 4 Stars

A great chance to relive some happy moments from the seventies. These are not complete episodes. Not sure why, but some guest stars are only in the introduction. As far as compliations go, however, all their greatest hits are included although they could have cut a few "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" reprises and included other skits or music. Great fun though.

Description of Tony Orlando & Dawn - The Ultimate Collection (3-DVD Set)

TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE NEW DVD!

They sold millions of records between 1970 - 1977, with three #1 hits and 2 American Music Awards. Their signature song - "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" has become an anthem in not only welcoming soldiers home from war, but also as a symbol of hope for the return of missing persons. In 1974, Tony Orlando & Dawn's already huge recording career morphed into a hit weekly CBS-TV variety show. Originating as "The Tony Orlando & Dawn Show" and ending as "The TO&D Rainbow Hour," the show was hugely popular and further endeared Tony Orlando, Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent in the hearts of America. Never before available on any home video format, this is first and only Tony Orlando & Dawn video collection of any kind! You're gonna Knock Three Times for this one!

FEATURED TONY ORLANDO & DAWN MUSIC PERFORMANCES:

. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree
. Knock Three Times
. He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
. Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose
. Who's In the Strawberry Patch With Sally
. Steppin' Out (Gonna Boogie Tonight)
. Look In My Eyes Pretty Woman
. Cupid
. and many more

EXTRAS:

Tony Orlando on The Tonight Show with guest host Freddie Prinze

Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent on "Fridays" with Don Novello as "Father Guido Sarducci & Dawn"

A hilarious TO&D parody from the Carol Burnett Show


If American television watchers craved intellectual stimulation, then Nova would top the Nielsen ratings and C-SPAN2 would enjoy boffo viewership. Since that's obviously not the case, what we end up with is decidedly middlebrow fare like Tony Orlando & Dawn. This mid-'70s variety show is neither very bad nor especially good; instead, these three discs (a total of eleven shows) are a thoroughly undemanding way to kill a few hours (nine, to be exact, including extras).

When the CBS network scheduled their show as a mid-summer replacement in 1974, Orlando and Dawn (Joyce Vincent and Telma Hopkins) were enjoying a string of kitschy but catchy hits like "Knock Three Times," "Candida," and, of course, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree." Like those songs, the TV show offers light, often corny entertainment with nary an edge to be found. The format is similar to that of The Sonny & Cher Show, which preceded it by a few years (and which was released in a three-DVD set by the same studio, R2 Entertainment, in 2004), combining comedy sketches, appearances by a variety of guest stars, and plenty of music, including the trio's own material and various popular songs of the day. Orlando plays the Sonny role to the hilt, wearing a succession of ridiculous outfits (cowboy, kung fu fighter, vaudeville entertainer, etc.) and standing by good-naturedly as the girls take caustic potshots at him. An average vocalist at best, he readily hands over the spotlight to Vincent and Hopkins, superior singers who perform both solo and together and whose weekly appearances as soul sisters Moreen and Lou Effy are among the better comedy bits. Indeed, Orlando's easy charm and lack of pretense (not to mention his big hair) are probably the show's strongest suits; here's a guy who was on a roll, happy just to be there and loving every minute of it. So what if their versions of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" and Isaac Hayes' "Theme from 'Shaft'," to name just two, are cringe-inducing? The latter, at least, is played for laughs, and the studio audience (consisting largely of the kind of folks who clap on the one-beat), especially the older ladies, can't get enough of this stuff.

The guests are fairly predictable, ranging from old pros (an ebullient Jackie Gleason, a sentimental Danny Thomas, a zany Phyllis Diller) to stars of then-current TV shows (Freddie Prinze, Ted Knight, Loretta Swit), with a few oddball choices (Alice Cooper, George Carlin, homerun king Hank Aaron--who sings!) as well. Among the bonus features are Orlando's appearance on "The Tonight Show" (with Prinze subbing for Johnny Carson), a mildly amusing bit with Dawn and Don "Father Guido Sarducci" Novello on "Fridays," and Carol Burnett's take-off on Orlando's TV show. --Sam Graham

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