Shop Around The Captain & Tennille

During the 1970's family acts were all the rage - The Jackson 5, The Partridge Family, The Osmonds, and then the brother sister act The Carpenters, specified the use of relatives as pop stars. The husband/wife duos were also fashionable in those wholesome years of pop culture, beginning with Sonny and Cher and followed by The Captain & Tennille, who shot to fame in 1975 with "Love will keep us together" a couples song if ever there was one, but curiously did not actually marry until the end of 1975. Their debut sold over a million copies went to #1 around the world and won a Grammy for Record of the Year (but even at the time, the Academy's choice was considered a bit suss). R&J Stone and Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jnr were subsequent husband/wife teams to scale the top of the charts in the mid 70's.

For the next five years Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille (aka The Captain and Tennille) were mainstays on the Top 40 with their pop confections which were often cheesy and sometimes sensual: "The Way that I want to touch you" and "Do that to me one more time" among their biggest successes. My favourite has always been "Shop Around", and although i was unaware of the Motown legacy then, I knew what I liked, and there was something cheekily fun and catchy about this track. Not one of their biggest hits downunder, but it was another Top 5 for them in America. Written by Motown founder Berry Gordy and Smoky Robinson, it had been a #1 hit 16 years earlier for the Miracles.

The Captain and Tennile still tour and are still married. Love has it seems kept them together!
Enjoy!

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