Captain & Tennille

I wanna boogie with my baby on Christmas Eve
I wanna carol with him all night long
I'm gonna show him all the presents underneath the tree
I'm gonna sing his favorite Christmas song
And in the morning at the break of dawn
After Santa Claus has come and gone
Me and my baby we'll just boogie on
'Til next Christmas

Boogie-oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie
Boogie-oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie

I wanna boogie with my baby on Christmas Eve
I wanna kiss him 'neath the mistletoe
I'm gonna bake a batch of cookies and a great big pie
Just to show him that I love him so
And in the morning at the break of dawn
After Santa Claus has come and gone
Me and my baby we'll just boogie on

'Til next Christmas

Boogie-oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie
Boogie-oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie

I wanna boogie with my baby on Christmas Eve
I wanna kiss him 'neath the mistletoe
I'm gonna bake a batch of cookies and a great big pie
Just to show him that I love him so
And in the morning at the break of dawn
After Santa Claus has come and gone
Me and my baby we'll just boogie on
'Til next Christmas

Boogie-oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie
We'll just boogie
Boogie-oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie-oogie
'Til next Christmas
I wanna boogie with my baby on Christmas Eve

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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