Captain & Tennille

Released: January 1, 1980

Songwriter: Stevie Wonder Clarence Paul Morris Broadnax

Producer: Daryl Dragon

Oh, you don't call anymore
I sit and wait in vain
I guess I'll rap on your door
Tap on your window pane
I wanna tell you baby
The changes I been going through
Missin' you, listen' you
Until you come back to me
That's what I'm gonna do
Why did ya have to decide
You had to set me free?
I'm gonna swallow my pride
Beg ya to please... baby, please see me
I'm gonna walk by myself
Just to prove that my love is true
All for you baby
Until you come back to me
That's what I'm gonna do
Livin' for you my dear
Is like livin' in a world of constant fear
Hear my plee, i've got to make you see
Our love is dying (our love is dying)
Although your phone, you ignore, somehow I must...
Somehow I must explain
I'm gonna rap on your door (rap on it)
Tap on your window pane (tap on your window pane)
I'm gonna camp on your steps
Until I get through to you
I got to change your view, baby
Until you come back to me
That's what I'm gonna do
(Instrumental)
...Hear my plea, i've got to make you see
Our love is dying (our love is dying)
Although your phone, you ignore, somehow I must...
Somehow I must, somehow I must explain
I'm gonna rap on your door (rap on it)
Tap on your window pane (tap on your window pane)
I'm gonna camp on your steps
Until I get through to you
I got to change your view, baby
Until you come back to me
That's what I'm gonna do
Until you come back to me
That's what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna rap on your door
(Rap on it)
Tap on your window pane
(tap on your window pane) Let me in, baby
I'm gonna rap on your door
(Rap on it)
Tap on your window pane
(tap on your window pane) yes I am
I'm gonna rap on your door
(Rap on it)
Tap on your window pane
(tap on your window pane) Hear me knockin' baby
I'm gonna rap on your door
(Rap on it)
Tap on your window pane
(tap on your window pane)
(fade)

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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