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Captain & Tennille
"Ultimate Collection: The Complete Hits"
© Hip-O Records
Year of Release: 2001
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track listing
Love Will Keep
Us Together
The Way I Want
To Touch You
Disney Girls
I Write The Songs
Lonely Night
(Angel Face)
Shop Around
Muskrat Love
Wedding Song
(There Is Love)
Song Of Joy
Can't Stop Dancin'
Come In From The Rain
Circles
I'm On The Way
You Never Done It
Like That
You Need
A Woman Tonight
Do That To Me
One More Time
Love On A Shoestring
Happy Together
(A Fantasy)
Gentle Stranger
Keeping Our Love Warm
We Never Really
Say Goodbye
Por Amor Viviremos
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Captain & Tennille
"Ultimate Collection: The Complete Hits"
I have very fond memories of the Captain & Tennille. Their TV show was
one of my favorites, as practically every musician in the 1960s and 1970s had
their own television series. One episode of their show was where Daryl Dragon
(Captain) had a wide assortment of different instruments, all idle in the
particular scene. He would walk around and play a few chords and melodies
from each instrument. By the time he was done, it sounded like an entire band
playing in unison; just only the instruments themselves. Daryl Dragon was a
fellow keyboardist (like myself), and his wife, Toni Tennille, was a very nice
sight for the eyes. Recently, a collection of their hits from two major
record label was released. Previously, only a greatest hits of their A&M
recordings were available. Now, both of their labels (A&M and Casablanca)
combines their most memorable recordings.
The first four songs were from their first album, Love Will Keep Us
Together. 2 of the 4 were obvious hits: The title track, (co-written by
Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield), and "The Way I Want To Touch You."
"Disney Girls" wasn't a song I remember, however, the fourth song was
very popular for Barry Manilow: "I Write The Songs."
The next five songs were from their second album, "Song Of Joy."
Neil Sedaka wrote "Angel Face (Lonely Night)" (he also co-wrote the duo's
most popular hit, "Love Will Keep Us Together." The remake of Smokey
Robinson & The Miracles' "Shop Around" was also a popular hit.
"Muskrat Love" was also covered by another 1970s band, America.
"Wedding Song (There Is Love)" has been a wedding favorite, and the
title track "Song Of Joy" may not be remembered as the previous hits
mentioned, but it is also a good Adult Contemporary song.
Their third album, Come In From The Rain has 3 songs, of which none
I can vividly remember: The upbeat "Can't Stop Dancin'" the tender
title track ballad, yet "Circles" has a strong resemblance to a song
that the Carpenters could covered, although Toni Tennille wrote this song
herself.
Their fourth and final album for A&M Records, Dream, contains 3
songs, the upbeat "I'm On My Way," the Neil Sedaka-Howard Greenfield
penned "You Never Done It Like That" (which kinda rings memory bells;
maybe the Neil Sedaka version might be the one I'm thinking of), and "You
Need A Woman Tonight."
By 1980, the Captain & Tennille signed to a new record label, Casablanca,
and their first album on the new label, Make Your Move, achieved the
duo's last #1 hit record, which was written by Toni Tennille: "Do That
To Me One More Time." (When I was researching the #1 songs from Billboard
Magazine, this particular #1 was unavailable on CD. When emailing for info, it
was mentioned that they were working on a deal to contain all the hits from both
labels they had recorded for.) Soon after, there was a "Best Of" Casablanca
Records CD.) "Love On A Shoestring" is a nice Adult Contemporary song,
and the Turtles remake "Happy Together (A Fantasy)" definitelhy has a
different sound that that of the #1 original hit.
Keeping Our Love Warm was their next Casablance album, and from it,
another nice tender song, "Gentle Stranger," written by Toni Tennille.
The title track (also written by Tennille), is also contained on this
Ultimate Collection, and is another soft, lite rock number.
Fans of their TV show will remember "We Never Really Say Goodbye,"
a song Toni sang to close their show each week. It's nice to hear this song in
its full form on this collection. This song (written by The Captain & Tennille),
was originally from their 1977 A&M release, Come In From The Rain.
Like The Beatles in the 1960s, they would record their big hits in different
languages. The Captain & Tennille did this as well, with "Love Will Keep Us
Together," sung in Spanish -- "Por Amor Viviremos". (I vividly
remember this version as well, as the words "I Will, I Will" in Spanish were
always X'd in my mind, when hearing this song when it first came out, and
listening to it again, decades later.)
A very good assortment of their entire career on two major record labels,
Ultimate Collection: The Complete Hits captures 22 recordings, with
most easily remembered, for those who followed their career, and/or watched
their TV show. Toni Tennille would later record albums of 1930s and 1940s
standards, and looking at their
web site, all of their original albums on A&M and Casablanca are reissued
on CD, likewise new recordings. Also, their TV show was only on for one season,
and reading on Amazon.com,
their TV show is now on DVD.
The Captain & Tennille has always been one of my favorites, and it was
truly a treat going down memory lane, remembering their hits and their TV show,
while listening to this complete compilation.
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