TONY ORLANDO AND DAWN - CANDIDA

CANDIDA

TONY ORLANDO AND DAWN

SONGWRITERS: Irwin Levine & Toni Wine

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: CANDIDA

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1970

Tony Orlando was born Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis on 3 April 1944. After almost a decade of singing and with only three Top 40 hits, two in 1961 and another in 1969 as the lead singer for the studio group Wind, he had not had any further successes. He stopped singing entirely, and by 1970 he was a retired demo singer. He began publishing music for April-Blackwood Music, a division of Columbia Records, instead.    

"candida" was the first single released by the American  pop music group Dawn, with vocals by Tony Orlando, in July 1970. The song, written by Irwin Levine and Toni Wine, was produced by Dave Appell and Hank Medress for Bell Records. Appell and Medress originally recorded another singer on the track, but decided that a different vocal approach would be preferable. Medress then approached Orlando to do the vocals. Orlando had been a professional singer in the early 1960s, but now worked as a music publishing manager for Columbia Records. Although initially worried about losing his job at Columbia, Orlando eventually agreed to lend his voice to the track.

The stars won't come out

If they know that you're about

Cause they couldn't match the glow of your eyes

And, oh, who am I?

Just an ordinary guy

Trying hard to win me first prize

Oh my Candida

We could make it together

The further from here girl the better

Where the air is fresh and clean

Oh my Candida

Just take my hand and I'll lead ya

I promise that life will be sweeter

'Cause it said so in my dreams

The future looks bright

The gypsy told me so last night

Said she saw our children playing in the sunshine

And there were you and I

In a house, Baby

No lie

And all these things were yours

And they were mine

Oh my Candida

We could make it together

The further from here girl the better

Where the air is fresh and clean

Oh my Candida

Just take my hand and I'll lead ya

I promise that life will be sweeter

'Cause it said so in my dreams

Oh my Candida

We could make it together

The further from here girl the better

Where the air is fresh and clean

Oh my Candida

Just take my hand and I'll lead ya

I promise that life will be sweeter

'Cause it said so in my dreams.