Captain & Tennille

Released: January 1, 1980

Songwriter: Isaac Hayes David Porter

Producer: Daryl Dragon

Don't have to beg you to hold me
Somebody else will
You don't have to love me when i want it, no
Somebody else will

Your fine friends say you don't need it
When all the time they're tryin' to get it
Look out

Your good thing
Well it's about to come to an end
Your real good thing
Well it's about to come to an end

All those times i watched the four walls
I did not have to watch them all alone
And if some man said he wants me darling
I did not have to tell him i was your very own

You've got all the love that i've got
Even ice melts to water and gets hot
Look out

Your good thing
Well it's about to come to an end
Your real good thing
Well it's about to come to an end

Gettin' myself back together
Is going to be a hard thing i know
But when that man says he wants me darling
You can bet, you can bet i won't tell him no

You've been running around leaving me alone
Next time you don't look darling
I won't be home
Look out

Your good thing
Well it's about to come to an end
Your real good thing
Well it's about to come to an end darling
I said real good thing
Your gonna want me, your gonna miss me
Your real my love
Your real good thing
Whoa, whoa
Well it's about to come to an end

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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