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Captain & Tennille are U.S. pop music recording artists who achieved success during the second half of the 1970s and into the early 1980s with a repertoire of mostly sophisticated hit songs.

The duo consists of "Captain" Daryl Dragon (born August 27, 1942), and Toni Tennille (born May 8, 1940).

They were married on November 11, 1975. Captain & Tennille are best known for their single, "Love Will Keep Us Together."

Both Dragon and Tennille came from musical families. Tennille's father was singer Clark Randall (aka Frank Tennille), a member of the band Bob Crosby's Bobcats who had given up his music career to run his family's furniture store in Montgomery, Alabama; her mother was a local TV talk show hostess there. Dragon's father was the legendary Los Angeles Symphony conductor, Carmen Dragon. Daryl's younger brother, Dennis Dragon, was the founder of the popular 1980s band, the Surf Punks.

When they met in 1971 in San Francisco, Dragon had been performing for a few years as a keyboardist for The Beach Boys, and Tennille was staging a musical she had written called Mother Earth at the Marines Memorial Theatre. Tennille hired Dragon as a musician for the production after which, in turn, Dragon helped Tennille land a gig as a touring keyboardist with The Beach Boys.

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