Tony Orlando and Dawn TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLE OAK TREE ( Piano Tutorial)
FREE SHEETS: You can support me on PayPal: Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree is a song recorded 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 Wilson and her sister Pamela Vincent on backing vocals. It was a worldwide hit for the group in 1973. The origin of the idea of a yellow ribbon as remembrance may have been the 19thcentury practice that some women allegedly had of wearing a yellow ribbon in their hair to signify their devotion to a husband or sweetheart serving in the U. S. Cavalry. The song Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon, tracing back centuries but copyrighted by George A. Norton in 1917, and later inspiring the John Wayne movie She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, is a reference to this. The symbol of a y
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