įollowing a December 1979 pilot, from September 1980 to February 1981 Tennille hosted her own syndicated television talk show, The Toni Tennille Show. On July 8, 1980, Tennille sang the national anthem at the Major League Baseball All-Star game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. In 1979, she sang backing vocals on Pink Floyd's The Wall. In 1974, Tennille sang background vocals on Elton John's Caribou album. The duo recorded a cover version of the Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield song " Love Will Keep Us Together" in 1975 that became a huge success and eventually went on to win the 1975 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. In September 1973, they released their self-financed debut single, " The Way I Want to Touch You", which was a local hit and helped them to get a record contract with A&M Records. In 1973, Tennille and Dragon left to form Captain & Tennille and began performing at local clubs. Tennille played electric piano with the band during their 1972 tour. After Mother Earth ended, Dragon returned to the Beach Boys and introduced Tennille to the band. Dragon had previously toured with the Beach Boys and had recorded with them as a studio musician. In 1971, Tennille met her future husband Daryl Dragon in San Francisco during auditions for Mother Earth. Although Tennille was no longer associated with the musical by the time it reached Broadway, she was credited as the composer under her married name, Shearer. The musical was a success locally, went on the road to San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1971, and eventually made it to Broadway for a few dates at the Belasco Theatre in October 1972. Ron Thronsen, one of the directors of the repertory, asked Tennille in 1969 to write the music for a new rock musical he was working on called Mother Earth. While living in Corona del Mar in Newport Beach, California, during the late 1960s, Tennille was a member of the South Coast Repertory. Tennille performing in the White House in 1976 In 1959, after her father's furniture store failed, Tennille's family moved from Montgomery to Balboa, California, where she worked first as a file clerk and then as a statistical analyst for North American Rockwell Corporation. Tennille graduated from Sidney Lanier High School and then for two years attended Auburn University in Alabama, where she studied classical piano and sang with a local big band, the Auburn Knights. For five years, her mother, also named Cathryn (née Wright), hosted a daily television show in Montgomery. : 2 He had been a singer with Bob Crosby's Bob-Cats. : 2 Her father Frank owned a furniture store and also served in the Alabama Legislature from 1951 to 1954. Tennille was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, and has three younger sisters. Tennille also did musical work independently of Dragon, including solo albums and session work. Cathryn Antoinette " Toni" Tennille (born May 8, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist, best known as one-half of the 1970s duo Captain & Tennille with her former husband Daryl Dragon their signature song is " Love Will Keep Us Together".
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