I know I promised to write about aspects of US history leading up to the 250th anniversary of the United States next month. I'm trying. (See below.) I was in a record store over the weekend and the owner was playing a Tony Orlando and Dawn LP on a shabby little record player. I asked him pleasantly, “Hey, what’s up with the Tony Orlando record?” He said that his good stuff sells OK so he tries to promote his stuff that doesn’t sell. (Dude probably took a marketing course in college, I bet.) I did not question his strategy – hey, it’s a free country (for 250 years!). But I didn’t buy any Tony. Or Dawn.
Interestingly enough, (and here’s some interesting US history), Dawn was not a person. No. Dawn was a group, a pair of women, neither of whom was named Dawn. I couldn’t find any info on the choice of the name, like if they often woke up before sunrise, or whatever…
It dawned on me as I was writing this that there must be hundreds of guys in Orlando named Tony who go by Tony Orlando. I bet at least one of them is married to a woman named Dawn. I’m pretty busy running this blog but if somebody could look into that, that’d be great.
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