Posted on 07/27/2011 10:41:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
It sounded so innocent when she sang it.
The double-entendre went over everybody’s heads. If that’s what it actually was...
>>Wasn’t that the Captain and Tennille?<<
They recorded the version most people heard. I used to hang around with Daryl Dragon’s brother when I was in college in Malibu. We had a group that would get together at his house in the hills to watch the original “BattleStar Galacticala” when it was broadcast...
We called ourselves “the Encampment of Wayward Boys.”
Mebbe Hollywood should have dusted it off for the movie “Hidalgo”?
Nahh, too mellow for a swashbuckling melodrama.
LOVED America. Totally underrated.
“They recorded the version most people heard. I used to hang around with Daryl Dragon’s brother when I was in college in Malibu.”
I didn’t care for the Captain and Tennille’s music, but I thought Toni Tennille was hot.
“The double-entendre went over everybody’s heads. If that’s what it actually was...”
Totally over my head.
He left the band in 1975. He got into Christian music. Although he recorded some of his Christian songs with the other two guys from America.
It’s Raining Again ???
Bunnell and Beckley now doing Time Life commercials for 70’s music.
Time flies.
It said he spent his last few years in quiet semi-retirement.
He was only sixty! There must have been something wrong with him.
I hate it when an artiste gets born again and it kills his art.
Why am I suddenly thinking of that South Park ep when Cartman molds the gang into a Christian Rock band?
>>I didn’t care for the Captain and Tennille’s music, but I thought Toni Tennille was hot.<<
She was cute — they recorded once at Pepperdine and I saw her up close and personal.
There is a nostalgic quality of 70’s/80’s pop that always makes me smile a little, even though I admit I slammed the next radio station button in my combo 8-Track/AM/FM under-dash unit when I heard it back then.
I bought the first album American put out and liked their music. I saw them at Red Rocks just outside of Denver in the early 80’s.
RIP Dan Peek. Condolences to his family.
Goes right along with the Beatles’ “urethane” girls.
>>Mebbe Hollywood should have dusted it off for the movie “Hidalgo”?
Nahh, too mellow for a swashbuckling melodrama.
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LOL — I know we should not laugh about such a young death, but when I go I would want people to laugh about the implications of the contributions my life made to culture.
In that spirit, I salute your post :)
Do you know where in Missouri he lived?
Muskrat Love
Saw them in concert in 1976. Always liked their music.
Hey! Even the likes of The Village People and KISS are nowadays seen as beloved nostalgic icons of the Age of Innocence.
I wore out several America cassettes in the 80’s. Lots of good music and memories.
R.I.P.
Tennille actually provided backing vocals for Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”...believe it or not.
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