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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Tony Orlando Encore

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

GGACP celebrates the birthday (April 3) of one of Gilbert and Frank's favorite guests: singer, actor and music producer Tony Orlando, by presenting this ENCORE of an unforgettable interview from 2016. In this episode, Tony reminisces about singing doo-wop on New York City rooftops, hustling for gigs at the world-famous Brill Building and working alongside music icons Carole King, Gerry Goffin and Clive Davis. Also, Tony remembers Freddie Prinze, gives props to Jerry Lewis, locks horns with "The Great One" and reveals the happy accident that created Tony Orlando and Dawn. PLUS: Tony roasts Dean Martin! Nancy Walker takes her revenge! Shecky Greene flips out! And the boys joins Tony for a "rendition" of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing Colossal podcast. I'm

0:27.4

hewick my co-host Frank Santopadre and we're once again recording a nutmeg post with our

0:35.3

engineer Frank Ferdarosa. Our guest this week is a singer, actor, music producer,

0:43.1

TV personality and former T-Nightle. He's recorded hit songs like Halfway to

0:50.6

Paradise, Candida, Nocturie Times, stepping out. Say has anybody seen my sweet

0:59.0

chipsy rose and tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree to name just a few. In his

1:07.7

decades-long musical career he's played to sold out houses and worked with

1:14.6

everyone from Bobby DARREN to Carol King to Slice Stone to one of our favorites on the

1:22.8

show Gene Pitney. TV appearances include American bandstand, The Sunny and

1:31.1

Shares Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Dean Martin Celebrity Rose, The Merve

1:37.1

Griffin Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with

1:44.0

Jimmy Fallon and of course The Jerry Lewis Musculos Discharife Labor Day

1:51.1

Telethon which he co-hosted from 2002 to 2008 from 1974 to 1977. He co-hosted

2:05.0

with singers, Thelma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson on the hit musical variety

2:14.8

series Tony Orlando and Don working alongside dozens of stars including Bob

2:23.8

Hope Milton Burr, Tony Randall, Art Carney Sid Cesar, George Garland, former

2:30.6

amazing colossal podcast Frankie Avalan and his childhood heroes are Jerry

2:41.0

Lewis and Jackie Gleason. Please welcome to the show a show

2:47.6

Miss icon and a self-described Greek o'Reakin the multi-talented Tony Orlando.

2:57.0

Let me tell you something the Gettysburg address was never quoted as well as that. I have

3:03.6

never heard an introduction like that in my life but I have to tell you

3:06.6

audience and you Frank and I told this to Gilbert before I got here. Okay. I

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