Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak
Tree" is a song by Tony Orlando and Dawn. It was written by Irwin Levine
and L. Russell Brown and produced by Hank Medress and Dave Appell, with
Motown/Stax backing vocalist Telma Hopkins, Joyce Vincent Wilsonand her sister
Pamela Vincent on backing vocals. It was a worldwide hit for the group in 1973.
This is NOT the story of a convict who had
told his love to tie a ribbon book to a tree outside of town. I know because I
wrote the song one morning in 15 minutes with the late lyrical genius Irwin
Levine. The genesis of this idea came from the age old folk tale about a Union
prisoner of war--who sent a letter to his girl that he was coming home from a
confederate POW camp in Georgia.... Anything about a criminal is pure fantasy....
— L.
Russell Brown
from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_a_Yellow_Ribbon_Round_the_Ole_Oak_Tree
