RANDY EDELMAN & TONY ORLANDO • REUNITED

Fifty Years Between Songs

The World Changed. The Music Never Stopped. On July 24, the Song Picks Up Right Where It Left Off.

The last time Randy Edelman and Tony Orlando shared a stage, gasoline lines wrapped around the block, television came in three networks, and a hit song was something you held in your hands — a 45 with a paper sleeve. It was the early 1970s. Richard Nixon was in the White House. The Twin Towers were brand new. And in the offices of CBS’s April-Blackwood Music, a young executive named Tony Orlando and a young songwriter named Randy Edelman were both standing on the edge of everything.

On Friday, July 24, 2026, at 8:00 PM, at the Bellmore Movies & The Showplace on Long Island, they stand together again — for the first time in more than fifty years. Think of it as the longest intermission in show business. And the second act is finally here.

Everything Changed

Consider the world that passed between their last meeting and this one. Vinyl gave way to 8-tracks, 8-tracks to cassettes, cassettes to CDs, CDs to downloads, downloads to streams. Nine presidents came and went. The phone left the wall, moved into our pockets, and learned to play every song ever recorded. Entire genres were born, declared dead, and reborn as revivals. The music business reinvented itself a half-dozen times over — and buried most of the names that once seemed permanent.

But not these two.

The Music Never Stopped

Through every one of those upheavals, their songs kept playing. “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” — the biggest-selling record of 1973 — outlived every format it was ever pressed on, and the yellow ribbon itself became a permanent piece of the American language, tied to trees and lapels through every homecoming since. Tony Orlando went from “Candida” and “Knock Three Times” to his own primetime CBS variety show, five number-one hits, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and six decades of showmanship crowned by his devotion to America’s veterans.

And Randy Edelman scored the years themselves. “Weekend in New England” became a Barry Manilow standard in 1976 and never left the airwaves. Then his music moved into the movies and stayed there for generations — The Last of the Mohicans, Gettysburg, Dragonheart, The Mask, My Cousin Vinny, Kindergarten Cop, the MacGyver theme, the Emmy-winning sound of NBC’s Olympic broadcasts. Formats died; his melodies didn’t. A kid who taped songs off the radio in 1975 and a kid streaming a movie tonight have both been living inside Randy Edelman’s music, whether they knew it or not.

The Song Picks Up Again

That is what makes this night at the Bellmore so extraordinary. The venue itself is a time machine — the oldest theater on Long Island, a beautifully preserved landmark just steps from the Long Island Rail Road that has been showing pictures since before either man wrote a note. Inside, roughly 325 people will watch Randy Edelman, presented by Tony Orlando, sit down at the piano and close a fifty-year gap in real time — with songs, film themes, and the stories of two careers that outlasted every trend that tried to replace them.

Fifty years is long enough for the world to become unrecognizable. It is not long enough to wear out a great melody. That’s the secret these two men have always known — and on July 24, they prove it in person.

The world spun forward for fifty years. The music was waiting the whole time.

Randy Edelman & Tony Orlando — Reunited After 50 Years

Friday, July 24, 2026 • 8:00 PM

Bellmore Movies & The Showplace • Bellmore, New York — steps from the Long Island Rail Road

Tickets available via Eventbrite

Produced by JD Sarantakos, JD’s Productions •Suppiryed by Paul’s Pianos 1115 Theodora St., Franklin Square, NY 11010