
Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970: #570: “Knock Three Times”- Dawn. Highest debuting single week of November 21, 1970.
- Single: “Knock Three Times”- Dawn
- Record Company- Bell
- Genre: Pop
- Written by L. Russell Brown and Irwin Levine
- Time: 2:56
- B-side: “Home”
- Album- Candida
- Grade: C
- Peaked at #1 18 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100.
The first of three #1 hits by Tony Orlando and Dawn. They would have 20 Hot 100 hits with 14 making the Top 40- their three #1’s “Knock Three Times” 1970, “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree” 1973 and “He Don’t Love You {Like I Love You} in 1975.
It’s hard to believe this followed “My Sweet Lord”, but was itself followed by an even worse song “One Bad Apple”. I’m embarrassed to admit I bought this 45 single. WTF was I thinking?! But at least around the same time period I also bought “The Tears of a Clown”, “My Sweet Lord” and “Rose Garden” (by Lynn Anderson).
I am sure everyone has bought an album or single that they look back on and shake their head. I am sure your batting average even back then was pretty high.
Yes, more than a few, unfortunately. But I think it’s perfectly normal for our tastes to mature and evolve over time, and mine certainly have.