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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsCaptain & Tennille divorcing. Custody of the muskrat is up for grabs. Cross-posted to LBN.
Love WON'T Keep Us Together
42 minutes ago BY TMZ STAFF
http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/22/captain-and-tennille-divorce/
Say it ain't so ... there's no Muskrat Love left for Captain & Tennille ... they're getting divorced ... and the Captain tells TMZ he didn't see it coming.
Toni (Tennille) filed legal docs in Arizona. They've been married for 39 years.
If you don't know ... you should. They had a string of hits in the 70s, including "Love Will Keep Us Together," "Muskrat Love" and "Do that to Me One More Time."
Daryl Dragon (The Captain) is 71. Yeah, it's Dragon.
Daryl tells TMZ ... "I don't know why she filed. I gotta figure it out for myself first." He also said they're still living together in the same house.
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)Noooooo!!!!!
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)"The muskrat"?
I thought there were two of them...
Muskrat Susie and Muskrat Sam!
Did the muskrats break up too?
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)I'm glad to hear that!
There's almost nothing sadder than seeing broken hearted muskrats crying in their beer...
Yavin4
(35,420 posts)people did a lot of drugs in the 70s. A lot of drugs.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Many, many years ago, I was in the Spirit Room in Jerome, Az, high on acid.
Muskrat Love came on the jukebox. The chirping almost made me insane. I had to go outside.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)at a White House dinner back in 1976. The news stories at the time reported that the queen was not amused
orleans
(34,039 posts)and those that did couldn't stand that stupid song!
(people who just drank a lot seemed to like it though)
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Not that America's version is any better.
Stupid, annoying song.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Willis Alan Ramsey at Threadgill's in Austin, TX (2008). Photo by Ron Baker.
"Muskrat Love" is a pop song by written by Willis Alan Ramsey depicting a romantic liaison between two anthropomorphic muskrats named Susie and Sam. The song was first recorded by Ramsey himself on his sole album release Willis Alan Ramsey (1972) on which the song was entitled "Muskrat Candlelight" referencing the song's opening lyric. A 1973 cover version by America - re-entitled "Muskrat Love" for the lyrics which close the song's chorus - was a minor hit: a 1976 remake by Captain & Tennille afforded the song its highest profile peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskrat_Love
orleans
(34,039 posts)Burma Jones
(11,760 posts)Maybe this is all a flashback.......
surrealAmerican
(11,357 posts)... apparently, love could only keep them together for a limited time, at least it was a pretty long time at that.
trof
(54,256 posts)Dern.
Ptah
(33,019 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I always thought that was an odd breakup request.
orleans
(34,039 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)of this!
Aristus
(66,275 posts)Their music exemplifies for me the breezy sun-drenched pop of the 70's.
Toni Tenille attended dance class with my mother in Montgomery, Alabama when they were both kids.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,131 posts)My dad was totally blindsided by it. But she had put up with his alcoholism and bipolar disorder enough. She told him she would leave if he quit taking his meds and kept drinking. Guess what? He didn't take his meds and he kept on drinking, yet he was shocked when she had the papers served. The Captain may not have seen it coming, but maybe he should have.
Yavin4
(35,420 posts)rurallib
(62,373 posts)in the "who cares" file.
orleans
(34,039 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)Courage.
tavernier
(12,368 posts)years ago and almost caused an international incident!!!
GReedDiamond
(5,310 posts)...who owns the PUBLISHING?!
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)If I have to guess, that's the reason. And I have seen her in concert by herself, and she is amazing.
Wish them both the best.
Jesus. Daryl Dragon 71 years old.
Sancho
(9,067 posts)"Love will keep us together"!!
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)mockmonkey
(2,805 posts)"Ya wanna take a bath?"
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Always loved that little "cameo."
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I guess now's the time for me to make my play for him