Come in From the Rain

Captain & Tennille | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Respond 2
• ASIN: B000B9E2EK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,177 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Come In From the Rain

2. Sad Eyes

3. Let Mama Know

4. Easy Evil

5. Can’t Stop Dancin’

6. Don’t Be Scared

7. Circles

8. Ladybug

9. Happier Than the Morning Sun

10. Ka-Ding-Dong

11. We Never Really Say Goodbye

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About the Artist

Keyboardist / arranger / producer Daryl "The Captain" Dragon and singer / pianist Toni Tennille became one of the most successful pop music duos of all-time as Captain & Tennille. The husband and wife team kicked off their recording career in style when their debut single Love Will Keep Us Together went straight to # 1 and won the 1975 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The hits kept flowing with more top 40 singles, including The Way I Want to Touch You, Shop Around, Lonely Night (Angel Face,) Muskrat Love, Can’t Stop Dancin’, You Never Done It Like That and another chart-topper in 1980 with Toni Tennille’s Do That To Me One More Time.

The couple met in 1971, when Dragon was the keyboard player for a musical revue composed by Tennille. Daryl is the son of conductor Carmen Dragon and his mother was a singer. In 1967, he was playing and touring with the Beach Boys - where he was dubbed "Captain Keyboard" by lead singer Mike Love for always wearing a captain’s hat on-stage. Additionally, he appeared on a few Beach Boys albums of the period.

Toni Tennille, born Cathryn Antoinette Tennille – is the daughter of Frank Tennille, a big-band singer and Cathryn Tennille, who became a local television talk-show host. In 1965 Toni moved to California and became involved in theater, which led to her toward writing music for the ecologically minded revue, Mother Earth. The show was performed in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where Dragon joined the band. After it closed, Dragon returned to the Beach Boys and arranged to have Tennille hired as a pianist and backup singer. "Captain Keyboard" and the "Beach Girl" toured with the Beach Boys for a year, while becoming romantically involved. The couple was married shortly thereafter and began performing in Los Angeles clubs as a duo called Captain & Tennille.

In September 1973, they financed their own recording, Tennille’s composition of The Way I Want to Touch You and released it on their own Butterscotch Castle label. The song earned significant airplay in Los Angeles and the duo was signed by A&M Records. For their major-label debut they covered the Neil Sedaka/Howard Greenfield tune Love Will Keep Us Together. The song quickly went to number 1 on the Billboard charts, and the rest is pretty much pop-music history.

Amidst a continual flurry of hit songs, 1976 also brought the Captain & Tennille’s weekly television show, which only lasted one season. In 1979, Captain & Tennille left A&M for Casablanca records, a move that placed them atop the Billboard Hot 100 once again, this time with Toni’s song Do That To Me One More Time.

Toni Tennille continues on with a solo career as a singer of traditional pop, performing with big bands and symphonies and has released numerous solo recordings to the praise of critics. She’s also become involved in stage musicals, having starred in the touring company of Victor/Victoria. Daryl Dragon continues to produce Toni’s and Captain & Tennille records and he also ran Rumbo Recorders, the recording studio they built in Los Angeles in 1979 – and sold in 2003.

These days there’s no place like home for the couple, as they much prefer their own surroundings to life on the road. Now, 30 years after their chart debut they’ve recorded two new holiday songs, "Saving Up Christmas" and "Tahoe Snow."

Product Description

The duo’s third release, COME IN FROM THE RAIN was a bit more mellow, featuring some gorgeous ballads like the title track, written by Melissa Manchester & Carole Bayer Sager. The "mellow" exception being the frantic, keyboard-driven single "Can’t Stop Dancin’." Daryl Dragon wails on the keys for this hit song (featured recently on FOX's dance competition show, So You Think You Can Dance.) The disc concludes with the song they closed their TV variety show with each week - "We Never Really Say Goodbye." Digitally remastered and available domestically on CD for the first time, with all-new packaging and liner notes by Toni Tennille.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Solid & Cohesive Effort....With Great Lyrics & Melodies...., December 2, 2005

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David Patrick (Prattville, Alabama) - See all my reviews

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I just finished listening this CD tonight. I didn't own it in its original vinyl pressing, so this was my first time hearing the entire album, and there are some great, sweet songs here. Among the favorites I already knew ("Come In From The Rain" and "Circles" among them) I was pleasantly treated to "Let Mama Know," which is becoming a new favorite after only a few repeated listenings. To these add "Ladybug" and "Happier Than The Morning Sun," a song about a very contented relationship -- such a central theme in much of Captain & Tennille's music. If you long for the sounds of a more innocent time, and appreciate genuine musical talent along with tender yet intelligent lyrics, you won't be disappointed.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Warm & Cozy, November 16, 2005

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The music on Captain and Tennille's third album fits well with the warm, cozy and quiet album cover photo. This is a great mellow album filled with wonderful music. "Come In From The Rain" is one of their all-time best songs. "Ladybug" is a song about respecting and appreciating nature and Toni and Daryl do an awesome job on the Stevie Wonder song "Happier Than The Morning Sun." "Circles", penned by Toni and one of the best pure pop songs I have ever heard (and I've heard lots), should have been a major hit. It's funny, the only song that does not fit well on this album was the hit "Can't Stop Dancin" -- it's fun, but should have been left off this album because it is just too frantic for the mellow mood cast by the rest of the songs. This album is great and it's about time it has been released on CD. Here's hoping C & T will record a new album sometime soon!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Group, May 3, 2009

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Rondall Banks "Rondall Banks" (Toccoa, Georgia) - See all my reviews
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If you ever loved the Captain & Tennille or if you did not this has got to be one of their best cd's around to bad I never got my copy of this cd then that way I could have had all six cd's but I don't so come in from the rain and enjoy this great husband and wife team.

Rondall Banks