Tony Orlando
When a hapless but dedicated talent manager signs his first client who actually has talent, his career finally starts to take off.
While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd's world comes crashing down when Donny resurfaces just before Todd's wedding.
While Tony Orlando and Dawn enjoyed a successful recording career in the '70s, not everyone remembers that they were also the stars of a network television show, but loyal fans can get a reminder of their years on TV with this three DVD box set, which features four episodes from Tony Orlando and Dawn's original run in 1974/1975 (Disc 1), and seven assorted installments from the show's three seasons as an extra attraction (Discs 2 & 3).
The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous breakdown.
Lynda Carter stars in her fourth variety special with guests George Benson, Tony Orlando and Frank Stallone.
The daughter of a police officer in San Antonio, Texas is gravely ill. So he promises to walk over 300 miles to a sanctuary, in order to obtain God's help to cure Stephanie, his daughter.
For his 1976 Christmas special taped November 1-6, Cash went home to the family's farm in Bon Aqua, Tennessee, and to their house in Hendersonville, outside Nashville. The rural setting at Bon Aqua invites city-boy/country-boy ribbing between Cash and his first guest, Manhattan-born pop veteran Tony Orlando, who points out that "Tie A Yellow Ribbon" is "my prison song". Join other special guests Roy Clark, Merle Travis, Barbara Mandrell and Billy Graham in this holiday-inspired first Christmas special from the legendary Johnny Cash.
Drunken, has-been rock star John Norman Howard falls in love with unknown singer, Esther Hoffman, after seeing her perform at a club. He lets her sing a few songs at one of his shows and she becomes the talk of the music industry. Esther's star begins to rise, while John's continues to fall. She tries desperately to get John to sober up and focus on his music, but it may be too late to save him.
CBS gave the group a television variety show (entitled Tony Orlando and Dawn) from the summer of 1974, after The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour ended its run, until December 1976. The show was in the same vein as its predecessor (with sketches featuring sarcastic back-and-forth banter between Orlando, Hopkins and Vincent, similar to the sarcastic dialogue between Sonny and Cher) and became a Top 20 hit. They are most famous for "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" & "Knock Three Times"!
