Captain & Tennille

Songwriter: Garry Bonner Alan Gordon

Producer: Daryl Dragon

Imagine me and you, I do
I think about you day and night
It's only right

To think about the one you love
And hold her tight
So happy together

If I should call you up
Invest a dime
And you say you belong to me
You'd ease my mind

Imagine how the world
Could be so very fine
So happy together

I can't see me
Loving nobody but you
For all my life
When you're near me
Baby, the skies'll be blue
For all my life

Me and you and you and me
No matter how they
Toss the dice, it had to be

The only one for me is you
And you for me
So happy together

If I should call you up
Invest a dime
And you say you belong to me
You'd ease my mind

Imagine how the world
Could be so very fine
So happy together
Happy together
Happy together

I can't see me
Loving nobody but you
For all my life
When you're near me
Baby, the skies'll be blue
For all my life

I can't see me
Loving nobody but you
For all my life
When you're near me
Baby, the skies'll be blue
For all my life

I can't see me
Loving nobody but you
For all my life
When you're near me
Baby, the skies'll be blue
For all my life

All my life!

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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