Halfway to Paradise
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Halfway to Paradise

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Halfway to Paradise

About this book

He's known the world over for his heyday with Dawn, but that glittering 1970's whirl was just one chapter in Tony Orlando's rich life. Orlando began his showbiz career as a teen heartthrob with the single "Halfway to Paradise" and had a second successful act as a record company A&R man before he was lured back into the limelight as a performer. Fans from the l960s to the present day have loved his voice, his stage presence and his hits, like "Knock Three Times" and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree."
Now, Tony has written an autobiography as warm and heartfelt as his songs. Halfway to Paradise is rich with stories from the music world-from doo wop to the disco era, from early recording with Gerry Goffin and Carole King to recent concerts in Branson, Missouri and across the United States. It's also full of behind-the-scenes detail of how it felt to be at the top of the entertainment heap-with his #1-rated CBS show, Tony's life in front of and behind the camera was grand, but sometimes not all it seemed. Orlando succumbed to one of the familiar antidotes to the pressures of a big life: drug use, with its predictable toll on family and friendships. And even as his career was soaring, he was unable to save his best friend Freddie Prinze from a fatal downward spiral.
With a return to roots-and to the close-knit family that has always sustained him-Tony restored the order and creativity that have allowed him to thrive through four decades of exuberant entertaining. Halfway to Paradise is a wise, funny and spirited life story, and a must-read memoir for fans.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1 - On West Twenty-first Street
  5. Chapter 2 - Out of Conflict Comes a Miracle: Our Rhonda
  6. Chapter 3 - Doo-wop Fever
  7. Chapter 4 - 1650 Broadway
  8. Chapter 5 - The Short, Sweet Career of a Teen Idol
  9. Chapter 6 - Murray the K
  10. Chapter 7 - On the Charts and on the Road
  11. Chapter 8 - And Then I Had Lunch with …
  12. Chapter 9 - Beatlemania Sinks the Teen Idol Ship
  13. Chapter 10 - From Mr. Mom to Management
  14. Chapter 11 - A New Day Dawns
  15. Chapter 12 - Show Me the Money …
  16. Chapter 13 - ā€œTie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Treeā€
  17. Chapter 14 - Keep on Dreamin’, Kid …
  18. Chapter 15 - Thanks to the Baby-sitter
  19. Chapter 16 - Amateur Night in Dixie
  20. Chapter 17 - Ain’t Worth Your Salt Without a Little Jerry Lewis
  21. Chapter 18 - Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah …
  22. Chapter 19 - ā€œHe Don’t Love You (Like I Love You)ā€
  23. Chapter 20 - Don’t Change that Dial!
  24. Chapter 21 - Starting the Journey Down
  25. Chapter 22 - Mamita Makes Her Network Debut and I Do a Political One-eighty
  26. Chapter 23 - Cocaine-1 Tony-O
  27. Chapter 24 - Freddie
  28. Chapter 25 - I Wind Up in the Cuckoo’s Nest
  29. Chapter 26 - Balancing Act
  30. Chapter 27 - Murray’s Final Sign-Off
  31. Chapter 28 - Some Hits, Some Misses, but Still Swingin’ …
  32. Chapter 29 - Finding Cinderella …
  33. Chapter 30 - Tar Beach to Ozark Mountain Boy
  34. Chapter 31 - Paradise
  35. Acknowledgments
  36. Also by Patsi Bale Cox
  37. Index
  38. Copyright Page