Dream (Remastered) Captain & Tennille

• 1I'm On My Way02:49
• 2You Never Done It Like That03:19
• 3Dixie Hummingbird03:59
• 4You Need A Woman Tonight03:14
• 5Love Me Like A Baby03:36
• 6Love Is Spreading Over The World04:03
• 7"D" Keyboard Blues04:02
• 8Good Enough04:02
• 9If There Were Time03:52
• 10Back To The Island04:36
• 11Dream03:26
• Total Runtime40:58

Info for Dream (Remastered)

Dream is the fourth album by the duo Captain & Tennille and their final album with A&M Records. The album was recorded at A&M Recording Studios (Hollywood, California) 1977; A&M Recording Studios "A" 1977; Captain & Tennille's Private Studio, (San Fernando Valley) 1977; The Record Plant (Los Angeles) 1977; Wally Heider Recording Studios (Hollywood, California) 1977.

After their last two singles released from their prior album failed to enter the Billboard Top 40, two singles released from this album returned them to the Top 40. "You Need A Woman Tonight" peaked at #40, and "You've Never Done It Like That" took them back to the Top 10, peaking at #10.

"Dream was Captain & Tennille's fourth album in as many years and with it the duo concluded their hit-filled association with A&M Records. The title track is a version of the Johnny Mercer classic covered by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, and even Ringo Starr on his Sentimental Journey disc. This LP is a sort of sentimental journey, with Mercer having passed on two years before this 1976 release. It's an interesting album, not only because it yielded yet another Neil Sedaka/Howard Greenfield hit in "You Never Done It Like That," but in the fact that there are two more Greenfield offerings -- a 1970 co-write with Sedaka, "Love Is Spreading Over the World," and a rare collaboration with Toni Tennille, "Love Me Like a Baby," copyright 1978. Howie Greenfield was only 39 at the time and had achieved status as one of the all-time great Brill Building lyricists. Within ten years he would be gone as well, making the Dream album a rather substantial one for that reason and more. Tennille sings "Love Me Like a Baby" with just her piano as accompaniment, an interesting journey deeper into the adult contemporary world that their Come in From the Rain album from the year before addressed so perfectly. Rod McKuen and Bruce Johnston's "If There Were Time" sounds as close to a '40s standard as Ron Miller's "For Once in My Life." Leon Russell's "Back to the Island" is more like what listeners would expect from Johnston, a nod to Captain & Tennille's Beach Boys past. With Johnston and Tennille on backing vocals, it is really a great lost Beach Boys track -- capturing "Kokomo" ten years before that song shot to number one. It is really an extraordinary find and why A&M didn't push it with all they had is the mystery. "You Never Done It Like That," originally recorded by Sedaka on his George Martin-produced A Song album from the year before, reached the Top Ten for the husband and wife in September of 1978, while Dana Merino's "You Need a Woman Tonight" was the weakest of all their nine Top 40 hits, only reaching number 40 in January of 1979. "Back to the Island" would have been the ticket back to chart supremacy, which they would achieve once they moved to Casablanca Records. "Dream" concludes the album with that show tune/'40s standard flavor Tennille." (Joe Viglione, AMG)

Toni Tennille, piano, lead and background vocals
Daryl "Captain" Dragon, bass guitar, keyboards, electric guitar, tambourine, percussion
Michael E. Mathis, drums, percussion
Hal Blaine, drums, percussion
Ron Tutt, drums, percussion
Shelly Manne, drums, percussion
Carolyn Willis, backing vocals
Melissa Tennille, backing vocals
Gene Merlino, backing vocals
Louisa Tennille, backing vocals
Gary Sims, backing vocals
Gene Morford, backing vocals
Ron Hicklin, backing vocals
Bruce Johnston, backing vocals

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Toni Tennille
Keyboardist / arranger / producer Daryl "The Captain" Dragon and singer / pianist Toni Tennille became one of the most successful pop music duos of all-time as Captain & Tennille. The husband and wife team kicked off their recording career in style when their debut single Love Will Keep Us Together went straight to # 1 and won the 1975 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The hits kept flowing with more top 40 singles, including The Way I Want to Touch You, Shop Around, Lonely Night (Angel Face,) Muskrat Love, Can’t Stop Dancin’, You Never Done It Like That and another chart-topper in 1980 with Toni Tennille’s Do That To Me One More Time.

The couple met in 1971, when Dragon was the keyboard player for a musical revue composed by Tennille. Daryl is the son of conductor Carmen Dragon and his mother was a singer. In 1967, he was playing and touring with the Beach Boys - where he was dubbed "Captain Keyboard" by lead singer Mike Love for always wearing a captain’s hat on-stage. Additionally, he appeared on a few Beach Boys albums of the period.

Toni Tennille, born Cathryn Antoinette Tennille – is the daughter of Frank Tennille, a big-band singer and Cathryn Tennille, who became a local television talk-show host. In 1965 Toni moved to California and became involved in theater, which led to her toward writing music for the ecologically minded revue, Mother Earth. The show was performed in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where Dragon joined the band. After it closed, Dragon returned to the Beach Boys and arranged to have Tennille hired as a pianist and backup singer. "Captain Keyboard" and the "Beach Girl" toured with the Beach Boys for a year, while becoming romantically involved. The couple was married shortly thereafter and began performing in Los Angeles clubs as a duo called Captain & Tennille.

In September 1973, they financed their own recording, Tennille’s composition of The Way I Want to Touch You and released it on their own Butterscotch Castle label. The song earned significant airplay in Los Angeles and the duo was signed by A&M Records. For their major-label debut they covered the Neil Sedaka/Howard Greenfield tune Love Will Keep Us Together. The song quickly went to number 1 on the Billboard charts, and the rest is pretty much pop-music history.

Amidst a continual flurry of hit songs, 1976 also brought the Captain & Tennille’s weekly television show, which only lasted one season. In 1979, Captain & Tennille left A&M for Casablanca records, a move that placed them atop the Billboard Hot 100 once again, this time with Toni’s song Do That To Me One More Time.

Toni Tennille continues on with a solo career as a singer of traditional pop, performing with big bands and symphonies and has released numerous solo recordings to the praise of critics. She’s also become involved in stage musicals, having starred in the touring company of Victor/Victoria. Daryl Dragon continues to produce Toni’s and Captain & Tennille records and he also ran Rumbo Recorders, the recording studio they built in Los Angeles in 1979 – and sold in 2003. These days there’s no place like home for the couple, as they much prefer their own surroundings to life on the road. Now, 30 years after their chart debut they’ve recorded two new holiday songs, "Saving Up Christmas" and "Tahoe Snow."

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