| "Knock Three Times" | ||||
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| Single by Tony Orlando & Dawn | ||||
| from the album Candida | ||||
| B-side | "Home" | |||
| Released | 1970 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:57 | |||
| Label | Cartwheel | |||
| Writer(s) | Irwin Levine L. Russell Brown |
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"Knock Three Times" is a popular song credited to Tony Orlando and Dawn. The actual singers were Tony Orlando, Toni Wine, and Linda November, prior to the creation of "Dawn" with Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson. The song was released as a single in November 1970, paired with Orlando's other hit song, "Candida" (also written by Toni Wine). The single hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1971 and eventually sold nine million copies, also claiming the number-one spot on the UK Singles Chart.
The composers of this song, L. Russell Brown and Irwin Levine, were thinking of the song Up on the Roof and they wanted to write a song with that kind of lyrical flavor, tenement living. Knock Three Times actually sold more than 100,000 records a day in New York City alone for ten straight days. The song appears in several motion pictures including Now and Then.
The song was was covered by Billy "Crash" Craddock in 1971 and became a number three country hit.[1]
| Preceded by "My Sweet Lord" / "Isn't It a Pity" by George Harrison |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single January 23, 1971 (3 weeks) |
Succeeded by "One Bad Apple" by The Osmonds |
| Preceded by "Double Barrel" by Dave and Ansell Collins |
UK Singles Chart number-one single May 15, 1971 (5 weeks) |
Succeeded by "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" by Middle of the Road |