Tony Orlando and Dawn voices in the background was "Runaway/Happy Together" in 1972. The group (now billed as 'Dawn featuring Tony Orlando') released another single in 1973, and it became their next No. 1 single — "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree." In terms of sales, this single was the most successful in the group's career, starting a string of seven consecutive Hot 100 appearances with long titles by the group. The group's next single, "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" (from their concept album "Dawn's New Ragtime Follies"), went to No. 3 on the Hot 100, followed by
Encino Oak Tree Encino Oak Tree The Encino Oak Tree, also known as the Lang Oak, was a 1,000-year-old California live oak tree, "Quercus agrifolia", in the Encino section of Los Angeles, California. It was designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #24) in 1963. The "Los Angeles Times" once wrote of the Encino oak: "When the famed Lang oak tree of Encino was but a sapling, the Mayan Empire was crumbling and Vikings were sacking English sea towns." It was already 100 years old when Pope Urban II launched the first Crusade. And when the first Europeans passed through Encino in