Daryl Dragon, the Captain of Captain and Tennille, died of renal failure in hospice care on Wednesday at age Associated Press reports the cause of death as renal failure. He was All but two of the albums they released in the Seventies were certified gold or platinum. Dragon was born on August 27th, in Los Angeles, the son of classical composer and conductor Carmen Dragon and singer Eloise Dragon. With music in his blood, he went on to learn the piano, organ, vibes, synthesizer and bass. He met Tennille when he joined the house band of a rock musical Tenille had co-written, Mother Earth , as part of L. After it closed, he hired her to play keyboards with the Beach Boys alongside him. The song became a runaway hit and won them the record of the year Grammy and sold more than 2. They married on November 11th,
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Forever No. But of course, it was "Love Will Keep Us Together" that caught on first, snowballing into one of the biggest hits of the '70s, and setting the course for the duo's next couple years of massive popularity. The genre's breakout in the late '70s had completely shifted the center of popular music, and by , well over half the year's No. That play-acting was taken even further with the album's barnstorming "Happy Together A Fantasy ," which attempted to do with the Turtles' No. There's no doubt in my mind that's going to be your first single. It's not hard to see what drew him to the song: Aside from its instantly captivating melody -- like "Love Will Keep us Together," the song kicks right off with its title and strongest vocal hook -- "Do That to Me One More Time" was an instant attention-grabber for its lustful, borderline-explicit-sounding lyrical conceit. Would they be a fixture on quiet storm radio playlists today? The Biz premium subscriber content has moved to Billboard. To simplify subscriber access, we have temporarily disabled the password requirement.
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More commonly known as the Captain, Dragon was a member of the Beach Boys from to before forming a duo with Tennille in Dragon and Tennille met in the early s and soon began performing together, with Tennille singing and Dragon on keyboards. Dragon and Tennille divorced in after nearly 40 years of marriage.
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