Captain & Tennille

Songwriter: Toni Tennille

I'm keeping our love warm
Keeping myself on cool
Keeping our love warm
Living by the lovers' rules

I know we have to be apart
That's just the way we have to live
But darling
That can't change my heart
You're the only one that I give my love to

And I'm keeping our love warm
Holding myself in check
I'm keeping our love warm
Wanting to hold you every second

You know I'm always waiting here
Saving it all for you
You never need to have a fear
There's no other one that I'd give my love to

Ooh, hoo, ooh, ooh
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Ooh, hoo, ooh, ooh
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

I dream about you every night
Think of you everyday
You know
I'm gonna do you right
You're the only one that I give my love to

She's keeping our love warm
(Keeping our love warm)
Keeping herself on cool
(Keeping myself on cool)

She's keeping our love warm
(Keeping our love warm)
Living by the lovers' rules
(Living by the lovers' rules)

She's keeping our love warm
(Keeping our love warm)
Keeping herself on cool
(Keeping myself on cool)

She's keeping our love warm
(Keeping our love warm)
Living by the lovers' rules
(Living by the lovers' rules)

Keeping our love warm

In 1972, Toni Tennille was a co-writer of the musical Mother Earth. Daryl “Captain Keyboard” Dragon, who got his nickname while touring with the Beach Boys from his signature skipper’s cap, took a job as the keyboardist for Mother Earth and the two hit it off romantically and musically, forming a nightclub act that charged $70 a night.

When two radio DJs urged the duo to record their cover of the Beach Boys song “Disney Girls” in 1974, they also recorded an original song “The Way I Want to Touch You” which attracted interest from several record labels. A&M Records, home to the platinum-selling male/female duo The Carpenters who had scored ten top 5 hits in the US from 1970-1974, signed them.

Captain & Tennille’s 1975 debut album featured seven originals, three Beach Boys covers and – at the suggestion of A&M’s A&R man – a cover of Neil Sedaka’s “Love Will Keep Us Together”. The latter was released as their first single and found massive success in North America. It reached #1 in the US & Canada, won a Grammy for Record Of The Year, and was the biggest song of of the year in the US. Even their Spanish version of the song “Por Amor Viviremos” reached #49 in the US. A&M followed it up with “The Way I Want to Touch You” and it reached #4 in both the US and Canada. Both songs also found success in New Zealand and the UK. The two married in November 1975.

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