Love Will Keep Us Together (album)


Love Will Keep Us Together is the first release by the duo Captain & Tennille. It was released in 1975 by A&M Records in both stereo and CD-4 quadraphonic versions. The album would peak at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart, while the title song, "Love Will Keep Us Together", won the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year and was nominated for Song Of The Year.
The cover of the album features a photo of Toni Tennille and Daryl Dragon sitting with two of their bulldogs.

Songs

The title song from the album, "Love Will Keep Us Together", was written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, first appearing on Sedaka's 1973 LP The Tra-La Days Are Over.
The Captain & Tennille cover would reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending June 21, 1975. It spent four weeks at number one and was ranked by Billboard as the number one single of the year, and also spent one week at number one on the Adult Contemporary chart. "The Way I Want To Touch You" became another million-seller, reaching #4 on the Hot 100 and topping the AC chart for two weeks. Both tracks were also top 40 hits in the U.K. although they did not replicate their Stateside success there.
Dragon and Tennille first met in 1971 while Dragon was keyboardist for The Beach Boys, whom Tennille would soon join as an additional keyboardist. The album includes three songs written or co-written by The Beach Boys: "Cuddle Up", which was co-written by Dennis Wilson and Daryl Dragon in 1972; "God Only Knows", co-written by Brian Wilson and "Disney Girls", written by Bruce Johnston.
The album includes the first album release of the song "I Write the Songs", also written by Beach Boy Bruce Johnston. Later in 1975, Barry Manilow released a version of the song which became a No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit.

Track listing

  1. "Love Will Keep Us Together"
  2. "Disney Girls"
  3. "The Way I Want to Touch You"
  4. "Cuddle Up"
  5. "The Good Songs"
  6. "God Only Knows"
  7. "Honey Come Love Me"
  8. "Feel Like a Man"
  9. "Broddy Bounce"
  10. "Gentle Stranger"
  11. "I Write the Songs"

    ''Por Amor Viviremos''

While the song "Love Will Keep Us Together" was topping the charts in the summer of 1975, Captain & Tennille released a Spanish version of the song, "Por Amor Viviremos". "Por Amor Viviremos" rose to number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, inspiring them to release their May 1976 album Por Amor Viviremos, a Spanish track-for-track rerecording of their Love Will Keep Us Together album.
Track listing
  1. "Por Amor Viviremos"
  2. "Mi Mundo Irreal"
  3. "Como Yo Quiero Sentirte"
  4. "Vivir Asi"
  5. "Mis Canciones"
  6. "Lo Sabe Dios"
  7. "No Te Levantes"
  8. "Sentir Señor"
  9. "El Rebote de Broddy"
  10. "Dulce Extraño"
  11. "Es La Canción"

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