The Captain and Tennille - Muskrat Love (The Toni Tennille Show)

Captain & Tennille are American recording artists whose primary success occurred in the 1970s and early 1980s. The husband-and-wife duo consists of "Captain" Daryl Dragon (born August 27, 1942) and Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille (born May 8, 1940). They have five albums certified gold or platinum and scored numerous hits on the US singles charts during their highest period of popularity, the most enduring of which included "Love Will Keep Us Together," "Do That to Me One More Time and "Muskrat Love." They hosted their own television variety series on ABC in 1976--77. In 1972 Toni Tennille was the co-writer of an ecology-themed musical called Mother Earth. At that time, Daryl Dragon (son of composer Carmen Dragon) was the keyboardist for The Beach Boys. When Tennille's show was getting ready 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. Dragon was in between tours when he heard about the opening, met Tennille in San Francisco to audition, and landed the gig. Reciprocating in kind, Dragon later suggested Tennille to The Beach Boys when the band needed an additional keyboardist, and they hired her. She toured with them for a year, and Toni Tennille has since been forever known as The Beach Boys' one and only "Beach Girl". When the tour was over, and realizing their collaborative potential, they began performing as a duo at the legendary (but now-defunct) Smokehouse Restaurant in Encino, California and started to make a name for themselves in the Los Angeles area. During this time, an early version of a Tennille-penned tune they had recorded, "The Way I Want to Touch You", became a hit on a local radio station and led to a recording contract with A&M Records Their first hit single was a cover of Neil Sedaka's and Howard Greenfield's "Love Will Keep Us Together". The song went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart nine weeks after its debut in 1975, and it went on to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Tennille paid tribute to Sedaka in the recording when she overdubbed her own voice during the outro of the single, singing "Sedaka is back." The duo successfully mined the Sedaka songbook a number of times over their chartmaking career, including "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" and "You Never Done It Like That." [3] A Spanish recording of the single ("Por Amor Viviremos") also charted that same year. This was the first time two versions of the same single charted at the same time. Tennille and Dragon married on November 11, 1975. Over the next few years, Captain and Tennille released a string of hit singles mostly from their first two albums entitled Love Will Keep Us Together (US No. 2, 1975) and Song Of Joy (US# 9, 1976) including "The Way I Want to Touch You" (US No. 4), "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" (US No. 3); "Shop Around" (US No. 4); and "Muskrat Love" (US No. 4). Such was the level of their popularity that they were given their own television variety show. The Captain and Tennille TV show aired from September 1976 to March 1977 on ABC. The show featured musical numbers and comedy sketches performed with various guest stars. However, despite solid ratings success, the duo wanted to focus on their music and touring career and, after one season, asked to be released from their contract. The duo's third album Come in from the Rain (US No. 18, 1977) produced three singles: "Can't Stop Dancing" (US No. 13); the title track (US No. 61); and "Circles," which did not reach the Hot 100 chart. A&M Records later released a Greatest Hits album (1977) which peaked at No. 55 on the US Top 200 albums chart. The duo released their fourth studio album Dream (US No. 131, 1978), although their first single "I'm on My Way" (US No. 74) failed to become a major pop hit. However, their second single, and third Sedaka title, "You Never Done It Like That," fared much better at No. 10. A third single was "You Need a Woman Tonight" (US No. 40). Dream would be the last Captain and Tennille studio album released by A&M. In 1979, Neil Bogart signed them to a contract on his Casablanca Records label. The album Make Your Move (US No. 23, 1979) rose much higher on the charts than the act's previous release, and the first single "Do That to Me One More Time" reached the summit in January 1980, becoming their second No. 1 single. However, subsequent singles "Love on a Shoestring" (US No. 55) and "Happy Together (A Fantasy)" (US No. 53) only achieved moderate success. Keeping Our Love Warm (1980) was the duo's second Casablanca release, and sixth studio album overall, but failed to crack the Top 200 albums chart. PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads among multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948's oldies classics. LINK: http://john1948.wikifoundry.com/page/John1948%27s+Youtube+Index

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