Donny Osmond's career began as the youngest member of the Mormon family band The Osmonds, who had several Top 10 hits in 1970/71; most notably "One Bad Apple", "Yo-Yo" and "Down By The Lazy River". In 1971 he began a solo career and had two massive Top 10 hits "Go Away Little Girl" and "Puppy Love", this ensured that he was one of the biggest teen heartthrobs of the early 70s; he was just 15. His solo career began to wane in the mid 70s until, in 1976, he and little sister Marie Osmond turned to television and starred in the Donny & Marie show. The weekly variety show on ABC ran from '76 to '79 and produced the huge No.1 hit song "I'm A Little Bit Country" (78).
That would be the last hit song Osmond would have until his first comeback attempt in 1989 with the album Donny Osmond, which spawned the international hit singles "Soldier of Love" and "Sacred Emotion" however ultimately the attempt failed. Osmond found success throughout the 90s in musical theatre, playing Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and then hosting a syndicated talk show with sister Marie in 1998, which ran two years. Currently Osmond hosts a television game show on BBC2 in the UK called Identity and he is tipped to be the host of a revival of the popular 50s game show Name That Tune, sometime in 2008 on CBS.
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