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| 1. Song of Joy |
| 2. Lonely Night (Angel Face) |
| 3. Mind Your Love |
| 4. Smile For Me One More Time |
| 5. Shop Around |
| 6. Going Bananas |
| 7. Butterscotch Castle |
| 8. Muskrat Love |
| 9. Thank You, Baby |
| 10. Wedding Song (There Is Love) |
| 11. 1954 Boogie Blues |
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."
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Miss This Gem!,
By NHgboy (Southern Maine) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Song of Joy (Audio CD)
This is Captain & Tennille's follow-up to their first album (Love Will Keep Us Together). Released in 1976, this album featured 3 top-10 singles: "Lonely Night (Angel Face", "Shop Around", and the love-it-or-loathe-it "Muskrat Love".Also included is the glorious title track that is brimming with soul; your hair will stand on its end at the conclusion of this song. "Mind Your Love" is a frenetic song with a swing & big band feel to it. "Smile For Me One More Time" is a simple, elegant and sweeping vocal performance that was written by Toni as a tribute to Daryl. Two more gorgeous melodies on this album are: "Wedding Song (There Is Love)" and "Thank You, Baby". This album shows the versatility and true muscal talents of Daryl and Toni and is a delightful mixture of original songs and those written by others. Toni (and Daryl) wrote 4 of the songs on this album. Although I bought this album on vinyl when I was 12 years old, all of the songs "hold up today" and aren't really dated with the 70's sound. "Lonely Night (Angel Face)", one of my favorite songs of the 1970's, could still be a hit today if it were re-released. Highly recommended!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Captain & Tennille's second album builds on the success of the first,
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (COMMUNITY FORUM 04) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Song of Joy (Audio CD)
This is the album that makes me most grateful that we now live in the age of the compact disc rather than suffering with the technological limitations of the album and the record player. First off, I freely admit that I loathe rather than love the version of "Muskrat Love" done by the Captain & Tennille. You probably remember first hearing the song done by America, but it is actually the first song that group did that they did not write themselves. The song that is so sweet it goes beyond saccharine to the pure syrup tapped right from the tree, was written by Willis Ramsey and made it to #67 on the singles chart for America in 1973, but the Captain & Tennille made it all the way to #4 in 1977. When you played the LP the only way to skip the song was to get up, go over to the record player, pick up the arm, and move it ahead to "Thank You, Baby." Of course you did get some exercise racing over to do that. With a CD player you can program it to skip the song.The other great thing about CD players is that you can program it to repeat. From time to time a song will get stuck in your head (right now I keep finding Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version of "Over the Rainbow" being the default sound in my brain), and the only way to purge that puppy is to listen to it a couple of dozen times in a row. One night back in the late 1970s I was unable to sleep because "Lonely Nights (Angel Face)" was stuck in my mind (hey, the chorus even insists "I can't get you outta my mind"). I could set up the record player to play all night (move the arm holding the records off to the side and it will just go back and play the album again), which meant I could listen to the song every sixth one, laying there awake, waiting for the side to end so that it would go back to the beginning where all I had to do was listen to "Song of Joy" and then get to the song I needed to hear. Today you just program your CD player to repeat the song and you can begin your exorcism program knowing it will be successful sooner or later. The Captain and Tennille exploded on the music scene in the last half of the Seventies in the same sort of way that the Carpenters did at the start of the decade. The similarities were obvious, with Toni Tennille doing the singing while spousal unit Daryl Dragon, who had played keyboards with the Beach Boys, playing anything with a keyboard. The big differences, of course, were that Tennille played piano instead of the drums and the couple were married instead of siblings. Musically the signature sound of the Captain and Tennille were their vibrant harmonies, courtesy of background vocals that usually include sisters Melissa and Louisa Tennille. Their first album, "Love Will Keep Us Together" included a cover of Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield's title song, which went to #1 and won the 1975 Grammy for Best Song. Their second album, "Song of Joy," continued to build on this initial success. "Lonely Night (Angel Face)," another Sedaka song, was released before the album and gave the duo their third gold single in a row (#3). The streak would make it to five with two other songs with another pair of covers, "Shop Around" (#4) by the Miracles and the aforementioned so let us hear no more about it "Muskrat Love." Like the two hit singles off their first album, all three of these songs also made it to #1 on the Adult Contemporary Billboard chart. However, the best song on the album is arguably one that was never released as a single, but should have been. The song is listed as being "public domain" on the liner notes, but Paul Stookey is the one that wrote "The Wedding Song (There is Love)," and it features Dragon and Tennille playing keyboard and piano respectively in a nice duet (I saw them do it live on television doing it that way too). I know this song was fairly popular as wedding music, quite appropriately so, but if this had been a single it probably would have exploded. The "Song of Joy" album made it to #9 on the Billboard chart, so that is decent enough exposure, but it could have been bigger. Dragon is once again playing every time of keyboard he can get his hands on, while Tennille and her sisters do the vocals, and Hal Blaine handles drums and percussion. There are some horn players on a few tracks, most noticeably "1954 Boogie Blues," one of two original tracks by the couple along with "Butterscotch Castle." Toni Tennille's voice combines tenderness and maturity, with a touch of southern sultriness that obviously contrasted with the more cynical rock `n' roll singers of the time. If you have followed her career at all during the last two decades then you know the woman can sing just about anything. Daryl Dragon was never compared to Elton John, but his keyboard playing always added a nice musical contrast to his wife's voice.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
70's Classic In All It's Glory,
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This review is from: Song of Joy (Audio CD)
The Captain and Tennille were very popular in the 70s and had some great hits showcasing the excellent vocals of Toni Tennille. Their albums sometimes had unneeded filler mixed in with some great tracks. But this album, SONG OF JOY, was a masterpiece and represents their career 100%. It followed their succesful debut LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER and for me, a teenager at the time, this album ruled.I loved SONG OF JOY, SMILE FOR ME ONE MORE TIME, THANK YOU BABY and WEDDING SONG. The standouts though are the hits - an amazing LONELY NIGHT, awesome MIND YOUR LOVE and the exuberant SHOP AROUND. These tracks are not dated at all today and this cd is digitally remastered with amazing clarity. Uptempo, jazz and ballads are eclectically micxed here for a true showcase of Captain and Tennille at their best. Highly recommend this cd. Buy it and relive some memories while you enjoy some quality music. One of the best releases of the 70s.
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