Anyone ever listen to the Captain and Tennille?

[KMOD]

[arcane1]

1. I have "Shop Around" in my collection :)

[reflection]

2. Love will keep us together....

[liberaltrucker]

7. Until it doesn't

Tennille filed for divorce from Dragon in the State of Arizona on January 16, 2014, after 39 years of marriage. Dragon was unaware of this until he was served with the divorce papers.[9] The divorce documents referenced health insurance or health issues, and Tennille had written on her blog in 2010 that Dragon's neurological condition, similar to Parkinson’s, was characterized by such extreme tremors he could no longer play keyboards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_%26_Tennille

[Frank Cannon]

29. This actually could be for financial reasons.

If he has to go to long-term care for a long time, that would wipe them out unless they protect their assets by having her clean him out in a "divorce". People do this all the time.

[hunter]

49. God Bless America!

[Frank Cannon]

50. Is this a great country, or what?

It blows my mind how many Ayn Randian Masters of the Universe don't consider for a second that almost overnight, they, too, can contract some strange and devastating illness that will leave them well and truly fucked. And all of their hard work and "genius" will have been for absolutely nothing.

[KamaAina]

18. That was one of the first 45s I ever bought

at Sam Goody in Westport, Conn. (Yes, I know I'm dating myself. ) It may have been the first.

[KMOD]

23. what's a 45?

[KamaAina]

26. Get off my lawn, whippersnapper!

[KMOD]

28. hahaha

I was just kidding with ya. We are probably very close in age. I think my first 45 was How Deep is Your Love, but I can't remember much anymore, so I'm mostly guessing on that.

[Paladin]

3. Not in the last 30 years or so..... (nt)

[steve2470]

4. way back in the day, sis nt

[Hoyt]

5. Oh Lord, I had to go to one of their concerts 30 years ago or so.

It was in a really nice old theater where the sound is good, if only the music had been.

I'm more of a Dylan, CSN&Y, folk musicians, type fan. But, sometimes you get dragged to such stuff -- I would not have paid for sure.

[Brother Buzz]

6. Sure, on the AM radio, but they never made it to my road trip songlist

Muskrat Love?

[trof]

9. Here ya go:

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[Brother Buzz]

10. Here ya go, my road trip songlist:

I borrowed it from John Sanford's Lucas Davenport novels. Feel free to use and amend it to your taste; it's just a righteous starting point.

Note: The Beatles have been intentionally omitted because they have their own iPod, augmented with all my classic surf music


Lucas Davenport's "Best Songs of the Rock Era" list, in no particular order, except that, as any intelligent person knows, any decent road trip will start with ZZ Top.


1. Sharp-Dressed Man · ZZ Top
2. Legs · ZZ Top
3. Mustang Sally · Wilson Pickett
4. Superman's Song · Crash Test Dummies
5. Rock On · David Essex
6. Radar Love · Golden Earring
7. Heart of Glass · Blondie
8. White Rabbit · Jefferson Airplane
9. Somebody to Love · Jefferson Airplane
10. Layla · Derek and the Dominoes
11. Roadhouse Blues · Doors
12. House of the Rising Sun · Animals
13. Sweet Emotion · Aerosmith
14. Dude (Looks Like a Lady) · Aerosmith
15. Dancing in the Dark · Bruce Springsteen
16. Born to Run · Bruce Springsteen
17. Thunder Road · Bruce Springsteen
18. Every Breath You Take · Police
19. Heart of Saturday Night · Tom Waits
20. Hot for Teacher · Van Halen
21. Won't Get Fooled Again · Who
22. Hotel California (cover the Eagles) · Gipsy Kings
23. Give Me One Reason · Tracy Chapman
24. Down on the Corner · CCR
25. Lyin' Eyes · Eagles
26. Life in the Fast Lane · Eagles
27. Skateaway (Roller Girl) · Dire Straits
28. Mary Jane's Last Dance · Tom Petty
29. Me 'n Bobby McGee · Janis Joplin
30. Black Water · Doobie Brothers
31. I Love Rock 'n Roll · Joan Jett
32. Jack and Diane · John Mellencamp
33. The Wall (Part 2) · Pink Floyd
34. Money · Pink Floyd
35. Piano Man · Billy Joel
36. After Midnight · Eric Clapton
37. Lay Down Sally · Eric Clapton
38. You Shook Me (All Night Long) · AC/DC
39. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap · AC/DC
40. Long Cool Woman · Hollies
41. Like a Rolling Stone · Bob Dylan
42. Knockin' on Heaven's Door · Bob Dylan
43. Subterranean Homesick Blues · Bob Dylan
44. Satisfaction · Rolling Stones
45. Brown Sugar · Rolling Stones
46. Sympathy for the Devil · Rolling Stones
47. Anarchy in the UK · Sex Pistols
48. Sugar Magnolia · Grateful Dead
49. Slow Hand · Pointer Sisters
50. Sweet Dreams · Eurythmics
51. Jailhouse Rock · Elvis Presley
52. Ziggy Stardust · David Bowie
53. Night Moves · Bob Seger
54. Bye-Bye-Love · Everly Brothers
55. Purple Haze · Jimi Hendrix
56. Lola · Kinks
57. Tender is the Night · Jackson Browne
58. Louie Louie · The Kingsmen
59. Bad to the Bone · George Thorogood
60. Turn the Page (covers Bob Seger) · Metallica
61. Sweet Home Alabama · Lynryd Skynyrd
62. We Will Rock You · Queen
63. Ramblin' Man · Allman Brothers
64. Rock 'n Roll · Led Zeppelin
65. What's Love Got to Do With It · Tina Turner
66. Born to Be Wild · Steppenwolf
67. With or Without You · U2
68. Paranoid · Black Sabbath
69. Blue Morning Blue · Foreigner
70. White Wedding · Billy Idol
71. Sweet Child o' Mine · Guns 'n Roses
72. Paradise City · Guns 'n Roses
73. Knockin' on Heaven's Door (covers Dylan) · Guns 'n Roses *
74. Walk on the Wild Side · Lou Reed
75. Feel Like Makin' Love · Bad Company
76. Rock of Ages · Def Leppard
77. Brown Eyed Girl · Van Morrison
78. Devil With a Blue Dress · Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
79. Respect · Aretha Franklin
80. I'm in the Mood · John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt
81. I Got You (I Feel Good) · James Brown
82. Unchained Melody · Righteous Brothers
83. Little Red Corvette · Prince
84. Roll Over Beethoven · Chuck Berry
85. Mr. Tamborine Man (covers Dylan) · Byrds
86. Ohio · CSNY
87. Peggy Sue · Buddy Holly
88. Great Balls of Fire · Jerry Lee Lewis
89. Pretty Woman · Roy Orbison
90. Runaway · Del Shannon
91. Walk This Way · Aerosmith / Run-DMC
92. (Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay · Otis Redding
93. Smells like Teen Spirit · Nirvana
94. Still Crazy After All These Years · Paul Simon
95. Who Do You Love? · Bo Diddley
96. One Toke Over the Line · Brewer and Shipley
97. I Wanna Be Sedated · Ramones
98. Should I Stay or Should I Go · Clash
99. Burning Down the House · Talking Heads
100. Waltz 2 / Jazz Suite · Dimitri Shostakovich

* Yeah, yeah, I know it's on the list twice.

[gratuitous]

34. I find your lack of Bruce Cockburn . . .

Disturbing.

[Brother Buzz]

35. The list is a work in progress, a starting point, so feel free to add to it

I found it disturbing there wasn't any Beach Boys on it either, so I added Good Vibrations.

What Cockburn song would put up for consideration? (remember, road trip)

[gratuitous]

40. There's a lot of good stuff on the list

So I wouldn't want to displace too much of it, but I'd suggest "Wondering Where the Lions Are" for accessibility, "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" for roadworthiness, or "The Tibetan Side of Town" for its traveling theme.

[Brother Buzz]

42. I thought long and hard and determind Cockburn doesn't make the cut for my 'Road Trip' songlist

Bruce Cockburn's music is great, but it's kick-back decompression music best suited for listening to after a long hard day on the road.

I need to be jacked up and stay edgy for a proper road trip; I got a reputation to maintain.

[gratuitous]

43. You are, of course, entitled to your own insane opinion

[hunter]

51. Young Hunter didn't need music on his road trips...

... the music was all inside his head, probably implanted there by the same pink beams from outer space that Philip K. Dick experienced.

I also had a car, and gasoline was cheap.

Drugs, you say? Hell no, the music in my head was always playing, the voices were always singing. Modern meds and therapy have quieted them a bit, but I still here them in the background, along with the fucking NSAID induced tinnitus.

Here's the sad thing: I often made more money as a mad-eyed itinerant laborer than PKD was making as an established writer. I once flunked an organic chemistry class because I was too busy moving furniture. My phone would ring at five in the morning and I'd get to choose between school that day, or 80 to 100 dollars working, sometimes paid in cash. I never did scab work or crossed picket lines either. I met a few odd characters on the road who did, mostly to support their hookers-and-drugs lifestyle, and most of those guys are dead now.

Unions kept wages up for everyone, union or not. That meat puppet Ronald Reagan is in hell, along with everyone who ever had their hand up his ass making his lips move.

Another sad thing: People today doing what I did then are still paid 80 to 100 dollars a day, even though those dollars are worth much less. My share of the rent in various places I lived was never more than $300. (Well, whenever I wasn't dysfunctional, homeless, or taken off the streets by family or siblings.)

[jakeXT]

8. I just watched Christmas in California

I thought the Captain would sink in this conversation, but he got some words in and he got a praise from Tenille

[bikebloke]

11. Way back in the radio days.

When we didn't have much choice except to change stations.

[elias49]

12. Words from my mouth!

[2naSalit]

44. Same here.

The only thing I liked about them was that they put a second wind in Neil Sedaka's notoriety. He was a good song writer.

[Generic Brad]

13. Ad nauseum

I loved their album when I was in junior high

[Xipe Totec]

14. Good God, there goes my PTSD nt

[hobbit709]

15. Not if I could avoid it.

[lastlib]

16. Oh, GOD! not if I can ever help it!!

Brain Bleeeaaaccchhhhhhh!!!

[2naSalit]

45. +1!

[eShirl]

17. looks like Muskrat Looooo-o-ove

[hibbing]

19. Didn't they have a TV show back in the day?

Or maybe it was just a tv special, it was special alright with those clothes.


Peace

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Not Willingly

But since my first car didn't have an FM radio until i could afford to add one with a tape deck, WLS and WCFL was all we had in the car and they played their hits at least once an hour.

Was never a fan. And Daryl Dragon can't play none.

[Aristus]

21. Yeah, for the nostalgia value.

Also, my mother attended dance class with Toni Tennille in Montgomery, Alabama when they were both kids...

[KMOD]

24. Really?

That's pretty cool.

[Iggo]

22. Couldn't avoid it back in the day.

I think Toni Tennile had it bad for Neal Sedaka.

[KMOD]

25. Sedaka is back

dadadada

[Paper Roses]

41. Speaking of old timers...Neil? Yikes.

When I was in college, back in 1962(ouch), Neil had a cousin who lived in my dorm. He came to visit once and of course, everyone came to the reception hall to see him.
His words? Never forget it.

"Hi everyone, I'm Neil Sedaka, it rhymes with 'cracka'. OK, we were in Massachusetts but even we do not cay 'cracka'.

Not impressed then, not now either. He is going to perform in a nearby town soon. Guess who will not be going?

[Frank Cannon]

31. I always thought she was kind of hot.

Maybe because I was at a tender age and she often went braless.

[Iggo]

32. Yes, and Yes.

[Trajan]

27. Nobody has ever listened to Captain and Tennille

Ever!

[Frank Cannon]

30. If you've listened to Pink Floyd's "The Wall", you've listened to Tennille.

She and Bruce Johnson of the Beach Boys sing back-up on "Waiting for the Worms".

[Manifestor_of_Light]

33. Yes.

They were OK.

Daryl Dragon's dad was Carmen Dragon, who was a famous conductor in Hollywood. He did the arrangement of "America the Beautiful" that they used to use on TV stations when they signed off at night. He takes an old saw and makes it interesting.


He changes keys, has counterpoint, and moving parts, and must have been a master orchestrator to put in the variety he did. If you're not old enough to remember late-night TV sign offs, go ahead and listen to this anyway. It's fabulous:

I performed under him as an orchestra conductor at my high school music camp one week, and he was just as warm and friendly as anyone I've seen. We were all nervous because we didn't know if we were good enough for this well known conductor, and it was the first week.

We were playing the finale of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony which is a real bitch. When he told the tympanist to really beat on his drums, he said "Son, you're supposed to be one of the most virile men in the orchestra!" Because crazy Russians write music where nobody gets to rest, and LOUD IS GOOD.

[sakabatou]

36. This guy?

j/k

[Joe Shlabotnik]

38. When the captain speaks,

I for one am enthusiastically ready to "to Get it on!"

[sakabatou]

39. Loved that show

[Skittles]

37. SCHEDULING KMOD FOR ASS KICKING

"MUSKRAT LOVE" STUCK IN HEAD; *EGREGIOUS*

[2naSalit]

46. Me too!

AAaaAaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Okay, now I have to crank up the old boombox and listen to something to get that worm out of my head.

[Special Prosciuto]

47. They were somewhat tolerable until "Muskrat Love."

Someone at that time also put up a "hit" about Shirley and Squirrely. More than I could take, thank you.

[Luminous Animal]

48. If I was trying to make myself vomit.

[LiberalEsto]

52. Why?