When was knock three times released

Source: MeTV. There have been plenty of fake bands in pop history, for various reasons -- in the bubblegum era , for instance, The Archies had success with a few hits that were obviously not sung by actual cartoon characters. However, Larry Uttell of Bell Records did not like the way the way the original singer, Frankie Paris, sounded on the track, and so Medress and Appell asked veteran singer Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis to record the song.

There was a problem -- Cassavitis who was working for rival Columbia Records at the time, and did not want to be credited.

Medress and Appell promised him that they would release it under the name of a band. Source: themorningcall. After that first hit, L. Russell Brown was asked to write a song for Dawn as a follow-up. He sat down with his co-writer Irwin Levine to begin composing.

The building Brown grew up in had steam radiators to heat it and they only one phone in the building, so when it rang, they had to develop a system to communicate who the call was for. So they used the radiators for communication. If the call was for someone on the second floor, the person on the first who had answered the phone would hit the radiator twice to indicate this.

Brown wrote a lyric about a man living one floor above a woman who hears the music and starts imagining everything. Brown then wrote the full song on the piano, using only three chords. Not quite Tony Orlando and Dawn. Toggle navigation Welcome Guest. Album: Candida Charted: 1 1. This song is about a guy who falls in lust with his downstairs neighbor. She doesn't know him, but he obsesses over her and leaves her a note one day with an elaborate plan to pursue a relationship: she is instructed to knock three times on the ceiling if she wants him, and to bang twice on the pipe if not.

We don't find out how she responds, but he would probably have better luck if he just talked to her. There was no "Dawn" when this song was recorded. Label boss Larry Utell didn't like Paris' vocal, so the producers persuaded their old friend Tony Orlando then working for the publishing arm of CBS Records to record it. Orlando, who had hits "Halfway to Paradise" 39 and "Bless You" 15 in as a year-old, had retired from singing but reluctantly recorded the song.

When it was released in June , Orlando insisted his name be kept off of it, since it could be a conflict with his employer, do the single was issued as Dawn there are at least three different stories of whose daughter the group was named after.

He was glad he did, as Candida , by Dawn, became a hit worldwide, and number 1 in several countries. Medress and Appell were understandably keen to repeat the formula, and had a song written by Irwin Levine and L Russell Brown. Inspired by Up on the Roof , they cooked up this tale of a man in love with the woman living in the apartment directly below him.

Afraid to be direct, he wants her to let him know either way by banging instead. How does that work? By hitting her ceiling three times, apparently.