Now on the radio, music and TV star Tony Orlando is going into the NJ Hall of Fame

Tony Orlando wants to set the record straight: He's a Jersey guy.

Orlando, star of music, TV and more, is set to go into the New Jersey Hall of Fame on Sunday, Oct. 29, in a ceremony at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.

E Street Band member Patti Scialfa, Giants running back Tiki Barber, “Sopranos” creator David Chase and basketball player Sue Wicks are among those also being enshrined.

For Orlando, it's a about correcting history.

“It’s my fault really because when they asked where I was born and grew up, it was New York. But what I forgot to tell them was my main, heartfelt years were from 13 on in Union City all the way to Hasbrouck Heights, and then I moved to North Bergen.”

Orlando cut his singing chops at the Tunnel Cuts in Union City.

“I grew up on 29th Street off Summit Avenue in Union City, across from Robert Waters High School, and I would doo-wop,” Orlando said. “My shows were doo-wop at the Tunnel Cuts and everybody would come over. 'Oh, Tony’s at the Tunnel Cuts!' And we’d be singing harmony together, and the only time I would go see a show was either Palisades Amusement Park to see whoever (Cousin) Bruce had or Murray the K at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre. And at the age of 16, I actually worked both places. So it was a dream come true right from the get go.”

Orlando had hits, “Bless You” and “Halfway to Paradise,” as a 16-year old in 1961. He worked as a young record executive for the next 10 years or so, then re-emerged with Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson as Tony Orlando and Dawn. Their “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree,” written by Jerseyans Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown, was such a huge smash that it landed Orlando and Dawn a CBS variety show.

“The Tony Orlando and Dawn Show” scored more than 36 million viewers for its final broadcast in 1977.

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Since then, Orlando has performed in concerts, appeared on Broadway, and hosted the New York City presentation of the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon. In 1993, he opened the Yellow Ribbon Music Theatre in Branson, Missouri.

He's also performed, and raised money for, veterans.

These days, Orlando hosts “Saturday Nights with Tony Orlando,” which airs from 10 p.m. to midnight on 770 WABC-AM and streams on wabcradio.com.

He follows Cousin Bruce Morrow Saturdays on WABC.

“The way I approach it is, it’s like doing a radio documentary for me,” said Orlando, who highlights a fellow hitmaker on each show. “I just can't flip records. I can't do it.”

Orlando will highlight the music hitmakers in the Jersey Hall of Fame on the Saturday, Oct. 28, show. All inductees in the New Jersey Hall of Fame are either from New Jersey, or call New Jersey home — including member Danny Devito, who is hosting Sunday.

Entrepreneur Finn Wentworth; ADP head Josh Weston; Newark politician Steve Adubato Sr.; former New Jersey Gov. Charles Edison; statesman George Shultz; sculptor George Segal; librarian Dorothy Porter Wesley also will be inducted on Sunday. Adubato Sr., Edison, Shultz, Segal and Porter Wesley are being inducted posthumously.

Individuals receiving the most votes in each category were inducted following approval of Hall of Fame's board of directors, who then determined who else should be inducted, according to the Hall of Fame.

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The hall is scheduled to move to the American Dream retail and amusement center at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford.

“To be honest with you, if I went no further than the Tunnel Cuts and Palisades Park with Brucie and the Paramount Theatre, I would have been happy,” Orlando said. “It’s been a magic carpet ride.”

Go: New Jersey Hall of Fame induction, 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29 (red carpet begins at 5:30 p.m.), New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St., Newark, $19 to $45; njpac.org.

The Damned in Asbury Park

The Damned are coming to Asbury Park.

No, we're not talking about the Zombie Walk. It's the seminal U.K. punk band — or should that be seminal U.K. goth band? — we speak of. They've embarked on a short U.S. Halloween tour, which comes Friday, Oct. 27, to the Pony.

The band, whose hits include “New Rose,” “Eloise” and “Alone Again Or,” recently released a new album, “Darkadelic.” On stage will be Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, Paul Gray, Monty Oxymoron and new drummer Will Taylor.

The tour also hits Warsaw in Brooklyn on Monday, Oct. 30, and Irving Plaza in Manhattan on Tuesday, Oct. 31.

Go: The Damned with (Blanked) Up and Baby Shakes, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, Stone Pony, 913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park, $42.50 in advance, $47.50 at the door; stoneponyonline.com.

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Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. Contact him at @chrisfhjordan; cjordan@app.com

This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: Tony Orlando is entering the New Jersey Hall of Fame