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The Captain and Tennille are a husband-and-wife pop duo who debuted on the pop charts with the top-selling single of 1975, a bouncy version of Neil Sedaka's "Love Will Keep Us Together." The single sold over 2.5 million copies and was awarded a Grammy for Record of the Year.
Toni Tennille began singing with her three sisters in their hometown of Montgomery, Alabama. Her father had sung professionally in the '30s, and her mother was a local television talk-show host. Tennille studied classical piano for nine years, and in 1964 she moved with her family to L.A., where she joined the South Coast Repertory Theater. There she cowrote a rock musical entitled Mother Earth, and during the play's run she met Daryl Dragon, a keyboard player in the house band. The son of conductor Carmen Dragon, Daryl plays synthesizer, organ, piano, and vibes, as well as bass. Before he met Tennille, he had also worked with the Beach Boys. When Tennille's play closed in 1971, after three performances, he hired her to tour as a keyboard player with the Beach Boys’ band. They were married on November 11, 1975.
In 1974 the two financed and produced a Tennille-penned single, “The Way I Want to Touch You,” which was first a regional hit. “Love Will Keep Us Together” followed, and upon its rerelease in 1975, “The Way I Want to Touch You” went to No. 4. Other hit singles included “Lonely Night (Angel Face)” ( No. 3, 1976), “Muskrat Love” (No. 4, 1976), a cover version of Smokey Robinson’s “Shop Around” (No. 4, 1976), “Can’t Stop Dancin’” (No. 13, 1977), “You Never Done It Like That” (No. 10, 1978), and “Do That to Me One More Time” (No. 1, 1980). From mid-1977 on, the duo’s misses outnumbered their hits; still they managed to sell over 23 million records throughout their career. During that time Toni Tennille provided backup vocals for Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Elton John’s “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me.”
They hosted their own prime-time series on ABC in 1976–77, and in the early ’80s Tennille hosted a daytime talk show. The couple moved to Northern Nevada in 1984, where Dragon worked in his home studio, producing records and film scores, and worked on an Internet enterprise. Tennille recorded five albums of standards, made guest appearances on television, and has performed on the musical stage.
A new direction for the Captain & Tennille began in October 2006 with the release of Cartoon Network's animated special Casper's Scare School. Not only did the duo record two songs for the movie, they voiced the dialogue for the characters who sang the songs. Tennille portrayed Aunt Belle and Dragon was Uncle Murray, who together formed a two-head-on-one-body being known as the Ankle. The two songs they performed, "Why Does Love Make Me Feel So Good" and "World Without Fear", were written by Magnus Fiennes, younger brother of popular motion-picture stars Ralph and Joseph Fiennes. Captain & Tennille's co-stars on the show included Phyllis Diller, Jim Belushi, Dan Castellaneta, and Bob Saget.
The couple sold their home in northwestern Nevada in 2006, where they had lived for more than a dozen years. During that time, Tennille had the honor of serving as Ambassador for the Arts for the state. They now have homes in both Southern California and Arizona. On October 9th, 2007, three new DVDs were released of the Captain & Tennille's ABC TV specials. The Captain & Tennille In Hawaii, The Captain & Tennille in New Orleans, and The Captain & Tennille Songbook. These were released individually or as a boxed set. Also released on DVD was The Captain & Tennille Christmas Show, taken from their 1976 ABC TV variety series. In November, 2007 brought the release of the Captain & Tennille's first Christmas album "The Secret Of Christmas" and is their first studio recording since 1995.
