
- 320 pages
- English
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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
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - On West Twenty-first Street
- Chapter 2 - Out of Conflict Comes a Miracle: Our Rhonda
- Chapter 3 - Doo-wop Fever
- Chapter 4 - 1650 Broadway
- Chapter 5 - The Short, Sweet Career of a Teen Idol
- Chapter 6 - Murray the K
- Chapter 7 - On the Charts and on the Road
- Chapter 8 - And Then I Had Lunch with ā¦
- Chapter 9 - Beatlemania Sinks the Teen Idol Ship
- Chapter 10 - From Mr. Mom to Management
- Chapter 11 - A New Day Dawns
- Chapter 12 - Show Me the Money ā¦
- Chapter 13 - āTie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Treeā
- Chapter 14 - Keep on Dreaminā, Kid ā¦
- Chapter 15 - Thanks to the Baby-sitter
- Chapter 16 - Amateur Night in Dixie
- Chapter 17 - Aināt Worth Your Salt Without a Little Jerry Lewis
- Chapter 18 - Someoneās in the Kitchen with Dinah ā¦
- Chapter 19 - āHe Donāt Love You (Like I Love You)ā
- Chapter 20 - Donāt Change that Dial!
- Chapter 21 - Starting the Journey Down
- Chapter 22 - Mamita Makes Her Network Debut and I Do a Political One-eighty
- Chapter 23 - Cocaine-1 Tony-O
- Chapter 24 - Freddie
- Chapter 25 - I Wind Up in the Cuckooās Nest
- Chapter 26 - Balancing Act
- Chapter 27 - Murrayās Final Sign-Off
- Chapter 28 - Some Hits, Some Misses, but Still Swinginā ā¦
- Chapter 29 - Finding Cinderella ā¦
- Chapter 30 - Tar Beach to Ozark Mountain Boy
- Chapter 31 - Paradise
- Acknowledgments
- Also by Patsi Bale Cox
- Index
- Copyright Page