Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree is a pop song, which was written in 1972 by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown and produced by Hank Medress and David appeal. Original performers were Dawn featuring Tony Orlando. On the B - side was I Can not Believe How Much I Love You.

The song reached both in the U.S. and in the UK for four weeks in April and May 1973 first place of the charts; in Australia as seven weeks May to July. The play was 1973 's best-selling single in the U.S. and placed himself at the 2008 " Billboard's Greatest Songs of All Time " at 37th place.

Background

The title translates to " Tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree ," and the plot is based on a story from the 19th century at the time of the American Civil War. Thus, a soldier from Georgia has sent a letter to his wife, in which he informed her that she should bind as a sign of their love for him a yellow handkerchief on the oak tree in the village center. When he returned after a long captivity in a carriage back home, he saw the cloth hanging on that tree.

In the lyrics, a man is released after three years in prison from the prison and asks his lover to a yellow bow on an old oak tree, so that he can already see from the bus if she still loves him, and he can otherwise continue the same. As the song ends, the bus arrives in the home town, expect the returnees at the Oak equal to one hundred yellow ribbons.

Cover versions

Also successful was the country version of the song by Johnny Carver. His Yellow Ribbon was also placed songs in June 1973 in the top 10 of the Hot Country. Other cover versions originate for example from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Dolly Parton, Connie Smith and Tony Christie.

The title was also published in German versions, among others, by Ralf Bendix (100 colorful ribbons ), Peter Alexander and Dieter Thomas Kuhn ( Bind a blue ribbon to uns'ren birch tree).