My Seventies Music

Tag: Elton John

  • The Captain & Tennille – “Love Will Keep Us Together” And “Do That To Me One More Time”

    The Captain & Tennille single "Love Will Keep Us Together" (1975)

    The Captain & Tennille certainly picked the right song when they sang “Love Will Keep Us Together” back in 1975 – not only did the record go to Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 nine weeks after its debut, the husband and wife team really are still together.

    “Do That To Me One More Time” also did pretty well for them. It too went gold and reached Number 1 in 1979.

    “Captain” Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille married on 11 November 1975, and the following year they sang in the White House for Queen Elizabeth II and President Gerald Ford during the American Bicentennial celebration.

    Toni Tenille was also involved as a session singer on albums by top artists such as The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Elton John and Art Garfunkel.

    Here’s the Neil Sedaka/Howard Greenfield song “Love Will Keep Us Together” that did so well for The Captain & Tennille in 1975 (looks like she’s going to jump off the chair any minute…):

    And their 1979 hit “Do That To Me One More Time”, written by Toni Tennille, at a somewhat more sedate pace:

    Nice beach.

    Paul

  • Elton John – “Rocket Man”

    When I think of “Rocket Man” from Elton John I think of 1975.

    Probably because it reminds me of a guy at (boarding) school I roomed with for part of that year, whose nickname was connected with a slightly adapted version…

    The man himself, i.e. Elton John AKA Reginald Dwight, first came to my attention in 1973 with “Crocodile Rock”, and the following year I took in his “Yellow Brick Road” double album quite extensively, I even have the sheet music of the album.

    I finally saw Elton John live some time in the Eighties or Nineties in the Festhalle in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where I was living at the time.

    (Just in case you were wondering, this particular Frankfurt, the one everybody knows, is on the banks of the river Main, pronounced “mine”, and this differentiates it from the city of Frankfurt an der Oder near the German-Polish border in what was previously East Germany; there is even a tiny village in northern Bavaria/Franconia most Germans don’t even know, called Frankfurt an der Hecke…).

    Anyway, here is a live version of “Rocket Man” at Wembley, London/England, from 1977:

    Rock(et) on…

    Paul

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