Artist: Captain and Tennille Genre(s):
Vocal
Pop
Dance
Discography:
Love Will Keep Us Together Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Keeping Our Love Warm Year: 2005
Tracks: 9
Dream Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Come in from the Rain Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
More Than Dancing and Much More Year: 2002
Tracks: 21
The bery best plus caratulas Year: 2000
Tracks: 19
Make Your Move Year:
Tracks: 8
Keyboardist/arranger "Captain" Daryl Dragon and his wife, singer/pianist Toni Tennille, scored a series of pop/rock hits in a scant, romanticistic vein in the second base half of the seventies, the virtually successful of which was the first gear, "Love Will Keep Us Together." The pair met in the summer of 1971, when Dragon was intermeshed as the keyboard participant for a musical revue, Mother Earth, composed by Tennille. Dragon, born August 27, 1942, in Los Angeles, was the son of conductor Carmen Dragon; his mother was a singer. He studied piano patch ontogeny up and briefly attended California State University at Northridge earlier dropping out to shape an instrumental idle words trey with his brothers called the Dragons. The group released the single "Elephant Stomp"/"Troll" on Capitol Records in 1964, but its trend was out of step with labelmates the Beatles, world Health Organization dominated pop music at the time. In 1967, Dragon became a touring backup musician for the Beach Boys. He was dubbed "Captain Keyboard" by lead singer Mike Love because he always appeared onstage in a yachting cap. In gain to touring with the Beach Boys, Dragon appeared on their albums of the period, including
Sunflower and
Kingdom of The Netherlands, and he was billed as Rumbo on a British individual released in 1970, "Good of Free"/"Lady," credited to the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson & Rumbo.
Tennille, born Cathryn Antoinette Tennille on May 8, 1943, in Montgomery, AL, was the daughter of Frank Tennille, a big band singer (below the appoint Clark Randall) world Health Organization had tending up music to carry his family's article of furniture computer storage, and Cathryn Tennille, world Health Organization became a local video talk show host. Tennille as well studied pianissimo and occasionally appeared on her mother's prove as a baby. She accompanied Auburn University, perusal music. In 1965, she moved to California, where she married and divorced drummer Kenneth Shearer and became involved in the South Coast Repertory theater group, which lED to her writing the music for an ecologically minded revue, Mother Earth. The show was performed in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where Dragon joined the banding. After it closed, Dragon returned to the Beach Boys and arranged to get Tennille hired as a pianist and backup singer. (Mother Earth finally earned a Broadway production that open on October 19, 1972, and closed after 12 performances. Tennille was no yearner involved with it at that microscope stage, just she was credited for its music under her married diagnose, Toni Shearer.)
Draco and Tennille toured with the Beach Boys for a year, meantime becoming a romanticist couple (they married in 1975), then left and began acting in Los Angeles clubs as a couple called Captain & Tennille. (Draco insists that the appoint is non "The Captain & Tennille," although it is ofttimes printed that way.) In September 1973, they financed their possess debut single, Tennille's wild-eyed ballad composing "The Way I Want to Touch You," pressing up 500 copies on their possess Butterscotch Castle Records label and earning airplay in Los Angeles. "The Way I Want to Touch You" was purchased by the prominent autonomous A&M Records, which re-released it and signed Captain & Tennille to a contract, obviously viewing them right as a more or less harder rocking, slightly sexier reading of the Carpenters, world Health Organization as well recorded for the label. For their succeeding single, Captain & Tennille covered Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield's "Love Will Keep Us Together," a song that had appeared latterly on Sedaka's American riposte album,
Sedaka's Back, regular tattle "Sedaka is back" at the oddment of the cut. The disk became a number peerless, gold-selling hit, launching Captain & Tennille's life history.
For the adjacent two eld, they could do no wrong commercially. (Rock critics, predictably, pink-slipped their centrist pop style.) The
Love Will Keep Us Together album fatigued two eld in the charts and went gold. "The Way I Want to Touch You," released a third time, gave them their arcsecond atomic number 79 single. "Lonely Night (Holy man Face)," written by Sedaka and released in January 1976 in advance of their second album,
Vocal of Joy, made that trey gold singles. In February, "Love Will Keep Us Together" won the 1975 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
Call of Joy was a gold album upon release and later on went atomic number 78, spawning deuce more gold singles, a get across of the Miracles' "Shop at Around" and Willis Alan Ramsey's "Muskrat Love."
In September 1976,
The Captain & Tennille, a weekly hourlong musical miscellany serial publication, debuted on the ABC telecasting network, which obviously viewed them incorrectly as an answer to CBS' Sonny & Cher. The show proved to be Captain & Tennille's first false step, weakness to bring in heights ratings and, in Dragon's legal opinion, overexposing the duet and thusly hurting their record gross revenue. Although ABC was uncoerced to strain the series, the couple demurred, and the designate went off the gentle wind after only one season in March 1977. "Can't Stop Dancin'," their disco-oriented new single, made the Top 20, only skint their drawing string of Top Ten, gold-selling singles, and
Add up In from the Rain, their third album, as well pronounced a set down in gross revenue, although it went gold. The duet embarked on a four-month national turn in May 1977, playing 90 cities through September. In November, A&M released the profit-taking
Chieftain & Tennille's Greatest Hits, suggesting that the label felt their topper years were already behind them.
Pipe dream, their fourth record album, released in July 1978, never reached the Top century, although it stayed in the charts doubly as long as
Come In from the Rain, buoyed by the Top Ten success of the Neil Sedaka composing "You Never Done It Like That." Captain & Tennille left A&M for Casablanca Records, a move that off out to be unwise, since the erst voguish label (known for Donna Summer and Kiss) was ingress a decline. Nevertheless, their label debut,
Make Your Move, released in the fall of 1979, returned them to gold phonograph recording position, featuring the chart-topping stumble "Do That to Me One More Time," written by Tennille. By 1980, however, Casablanca was closely moribund and was non able to promote Captain & Tennille's sixth album,
Keeping Our Love Warm, which failed to regular pass the charts.
Maitre d' & Tennille in brief stirred to CBS, only the deal concluded without whatsoever records existence released. In 1982, they recorded an album called More Than Dancing for the midget Australian label Wizard Records, which released it in Australia only in 1984. (It was reissued in Australia by Raven in 2002 with incentive tracks as
More Than Dancing...Much More). Thereafter, they basically retired as a transcription represent spell still playing episodic shows. Tennille went on to a solo calling as a isaac Merrit Singer of traditional pop, acting with handsome bands and releasing the albums
More Than You Know (1984),
All of Me (1987),
Do It Again (1990),
Never Let Me Go (1992),
Things Are Swingin' (1994),
Tennille Sings Big Band (1998), and
Incurably Romantic (2001), spell Dragon produced her records and ran Rumbo Recorders, a recording studio he had built in Los Angeles in 1979 that hosted major acts, including Guns N' Roses. (Dragon sold the studio apartment in 2003.) In 1995, the iI re-recorded some of their hits along with standards like "Unchained Melody" for the Captain & Tennille reunion record album
XX Years of Romance.
In the second base half of the nineties, Tennille became progressively mired in stagecoach musicals, stellar, for exercise, in a touring company of Victor/Victoria in 1998, spell Dragon joined ex-Beach Boy Al Jardine's "Beach Boys Family and Friends" company in 1999. Increasingly, nevertheless, the mates preferable to remain at their home in northern Nevada rather than execute on the road. In November 2003, Tennille gave a concert benefiting the Reno Chamber Orchestra. Dragon was her limited invitee, and the two performed half a twelve songs in concert, including several Captain & Tennille hits. The render was recorded, resulting in the double-CD An Intimate Evening with Toni Tennille, the first record album to feature of speech Captain & Tennille live performances, released alone by the Reno Chamber Orchestra through its website, hypertext transfer protocol://renochamberorchestra.org.
