The Cisco Kid (song) "Billboard" Top 40 for 2 weeks at the end of April and start of May 1973. It was kept out of the #1 spot by Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree by Tony Orlando and Dawn On the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, it peaked at #5. Outside the US, it went to #1 on the "RPM 100" Canadian singles chart. It became a gold record. The Cisco Kid (song) "The Cisco Kid" is a song performed by War, and written by Thomas Allen, B. B. Dickerson, Harold Brown, and Charles Miller, all members of War at
Tony Orlando and Dawn through the 1960s, he also became a producer and a successful music executive with Columbia Records and Columbia/CBS music. While working as a music executive, Orlando received "Candida," a song other producers and singers had turned down. Originally, Orlando could not lend his name to the song, as he was working for April-Blackwood and recording under his name would be a professional conflict of interest. After producer Hank Medress insisted Orlando dub his voice over the male vocals on the original track, Bell Records released the single as being performed by the band "Dawn" to protect Orlando's position. The background