![]() ![]() Such was the level of their popularity that they were given their own television variety show. After a long journey, the Queen fell asleep during their show. In July 1976, they were invited by First Lady Betty Ford to perform in the East Room of the White House in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II and President Gerald Ford during the country's bicentennial celebration. Over the next few years, Captain and Tennille released a string of hit singles mostly from their first two albums Love Will Keep Us Together (US #2, 1975) and Song Of Joy (US #9, 1976) including "The Way I Want to Touch You" (US #4), "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" (US #3), "Shop Around" (US #4), and "Muskrat Love" (US #4). Tennille and Dragon married on Novem(not on Valentine's Day 1974, as is often erroneously reported, for example, on the Februedition of Casey Kasem's American Top 40). Tennille and Dragon included renditions of several other Sedaka songs on their albums. Their Spanish recording of "Love Will Keep Us Together", "Por Amor Viviremos", also charted in 1975 it was the first time two versions of the same single charted simultaneously. Two of their other hit singles were the Sedaka co-writes "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" and "You Never Done It Like That". The duo successfully mined the Sedaka songbook a number of times over their chartmaking career. Tennille paid tribute to Sedaka in the recording when she sang the overdub "Sedaka is back" at the end of the song. It sold over 1 million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA on July 1, 1975. Their first hit single, a rendition of Neil Sedaka's and Howard Greenfield's "Love Will Keep Us Together", reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart nine weeks after its 1975 debut, and went on to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. This led to a recording contract with A&M Records. They started to become popular in the Los Angeles area, and their early version of the Tennille-penned "The Way I Want to Touch You" became popular on a local radio station. ![]() Realizing their collaborative potential when the tour was over, Tennille and Dragon began performing as a duo at the now-defunct Smokehouse Restaurant in Encino, California. She toured with them for a year, and has since been known as The Beach Boys' one and only "Beach Girl". ![]() Dragon was between tours when he heard about the opening, met Tennille in San Francisco to audition, and landed the gig.ĭragon later reciprocated by recommending Tennille to the Beach Boys when the band needed an additional keyboardist, and they hired her. When Tennille's show was preparing to move from San Francisco's Marines Memorial Theatre to Southern California's South Coast Repertory, a call was put out for a replacement keyboardist. ![]() At that time, Daryl Dragon (son of composer Carmen Dragon) was working as a keyboardist for the Beach Boys. In 1972, Toni Tennille was the co-writer of an ecology-themed musical, Mother Earth. They hosted their own television variety series on ABC in 1976–77. They have five albums certified gold or platinum and scored numerous hits on the US singles charts, the most enduring of which included "Love Will Keep Us Together", "Do That to Me One More Time", and "Muskrat Love". The husband-and-wife duo were "Captain" Daryl Dragon (August 27, 1942-January 2, 2019) and Toni Tennille (born May 8, 1940). Captain & Tennille were American recording artists whose primary success occurred in the 1970s. ![]()
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