| "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" | ||||
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| Single by Tony Orlando and Dawn | ||||
| from the album Dawn's New Ragtime Follies | ||||
| B-side | "The Spark of Love Is Kindlin'" | |||
| Released | 1973 | |||
| Format | 7" (45 rpm) | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:51 | |||
| Label | Bell Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Irwin Levine L. Russell Brown |
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| Producer | Hank Medress Dave Appell |
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"Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" is a 1973 song by the American pop music group Tony Orlando and Dawn. The song was written by Irwin Levine (lyrics) and L. Russell Brown (music) and was included on the group's 1973 album, Dawn's New Ragtime Follies.
The songwriting duo of Levine and Brown had also penned other Tony Orlando and Dawn hit songs, including "Knock Three Times" and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree". According to Orlando, Levine was a fan of singer Al Jolson and proposed the concept of "Say, Has Anybody Seen..." to producer Hank Medress. Orlando is quoted as saying: "Irwin Levine, the lyricist of the two, had this love for Jolson. He said, 'Hank, I'd like to write some songs that could have been written in the early 1900s.'"[1] With this concept in mind, the songwriters, producers and musicians began creating Dawn's New Ragtime Follies.
Officially credited as being performed by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando and released as the lead single from the aforementioned album, "Say, Has Anybody Seen..." became the group's fourth top ten single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1973, peaking at #3.[2] The song spent three weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart in August and September of that year.[1] It reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart at roughly the same time,[3] and made it to #2 on the Australian pop chart.
Also in 1973, a version of the song by country-pop singer Terry Stafford was included on the 7" single release of Stafford's hit, "Amarillo by Morning".