Tony Orlando and Dawn
Roy Trakin, The Definitive Collection of Dawn, August 1998
OCTOBER 1970. The war was still raging in Vietnam. Richard Nixon was in the White House and the Watergate was still just the name of a high-rise residential hotel in Washington, D.C. The charts were dominated by B. J. Thomas' Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head, the Jackson Five's I Want You Back, Shocking Blue's Venus, Sly's Thank You, Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water, Ray Stevens Everything Is Beautiful.
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