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Keyboardist/arranger
"Captain" Daryl Dragon and his wife, singer/pianist Toni
Tennille, had huge success with their unique blend of easy listening
music from 1975 through 1979.
After working as a back up musician with the Beach Boys, Dragon (whose Captain persona was coined by Beach Boys singer Mike Love due to Dragon wearing a yachting cap on stage) soon moved to work on Mother Earth, a revue which Toni Tennille wrote the music for. After Mother Earth closed, the duo rejoined the Beach Boys for a year of touring after which they formed Captain & Tennille - playing clubs and financing their own single - The Way I Want To Touch You. On the strength of this, they received a recording contract with A&M and released the soon to be smash Love Will Keep Us Together. The album Love Will Keep Us Together spent two years in the charts and they re-released their first single The Way I Want to Touch You, giving them their second gold single. This soon followed with another gold hit - Neil Sedaka's Lonely Night (Angel Face), from their second album, Song of Joy. The album would produce two more best sellers - Shop Around and Muskrat Love. |
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Love
Will Keep Us Together won the 1975 Grammy Award for Record of the
Year. Topping off a momentous year, the pair also married.
1976 marked the debut of The Captain & Tennille, a weekly variety series. While not a mega success (perhaps due to comparisons with the Sonny and Cher show), they were offered a second season but declined due to a feeling of over exposure that was eating into their record sales. d They returned to the charts with their top twenty discofied hit Can't Stop Dancin', from their third album, Come In from the Rain. A 90 city national tour followed in 1977 national tour in May 1977, with their record company, A&M releasing their Greatest Hits. Their fourth album, Dream, released in July 1978 featured the hit You Never Done It Like That, written by Neil Sedaka. They then moved to the discofied Casablanca Records label and produced 1979's Make Your Move, which went Gold and included the chart smash Do That to Me One More Time. With a change in music styles on the horizon, Captain & Tennille's sixth album, Keeping Our Love Warm, failed to have any impact on the charts. They continued to actively record in the 80's and 90's and in 2003 were reunited on stage culminating in their first live double CD recording, An Intimate Evening with Toni Tennille. For more details on their pre/post disco careers, visit http://www.captainandtennille.net | |
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