Daryl Dragon, of 'Captain and Tennille,' dead at 76
NEW YORK — Daryl Dragon, the cap-wearing “Captain” of “The Captain and Tennille” who teamed with then-wife Toni Tennille on such hits as “Love Will Keep Us Together” died Wednesday at age 76.
Dragon died of renal failure at a hospice in Prescott, Ariz., according to spokesman Harlan Boll. Tennille was by his side.
Dragon and Tennille met in the early 1970s and soon began performing together, with Tennille singing and Dragon on keyboards. Their breakthrough came in 1975 when they covered the bouncy Neil Sedaka-Howard Greenfield song “Love Will Keep Us Together.”
The Captain and Tennille followed with a mix of covers such as “Muskrat Love” and “Shop Around” and original songs, including Tennille’s ballad “Do That to Me One More Time,” which hit No. 1 in 1980. They briefly starred in their own TV variety show before their careers faded in the 1980s.
