Captain & Tennille

. Sarah Connor had a baby boy called Tyler with Natural's Singer Marc Terenzi on 2 February 2004. On the TV show MXC, the character "Captain Tenneal" is a spoof of the name of their act. "Bounce" was selected as the first single from this album and has been a top 40 hit in the UK, Australia and even the United States. Tennille has also worked as a session singer (most frequently partnered with Beach Boy Bruce Johnston), performing backup on no less than three Elton John albums including "Caribou," "Blue Moves," and "21 At 33" (some vocally arranged by Dragon) and most notably (and prominently) on the classic "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me." She also appeared as a backup vocalist on tracks by Art Garfunkel and The Beach Boys, as well as Pink Floyd for whom she performed backing tracks on The Wall album. A self-titled album was released in 2004 in an attempt to establish Connor in English-speaking countries. Dragon's father was the legendary conductor, Carmen Dragon. So far, it has had a couple of hit singles from it including.

Her mother was a talk show hostess in Montgomery, Alabama. In November 2003, Sarah Connor released her third album in Europe called Key To My Soul which debuted in the top ten in Germany. Tennille's father was singer Clark Randall (aka Frank Tennille), a member of the legendary Bob Crosby's Bobcats. The album has featured a number of other European hits including:. Additional trivia:. Unbelievable was another smash achieving gold record status in Germany within 48 hours. The couple still reside in Northern Nevada where Tennille was appointed "Ambassador For The Arts" by the governor of the state. Wyclef Jean wrote, produced and sang on the first single from the album "One Nite Stand (Of Wolves And Sheep)" which was another top 5 German hit and reached the Top 40 in the Netherlands, New Zealand and Austria.

Not available on commercial websites, the double-CD, "An Intimate Evening with Toni Tennille," can be acquired solely through the Reno Chamber Orchestra website, http://renochamberorchestra.org. A second album Unbelievable was released in 2002 in Europe. This was the first time they had publicly performed as Captain & Tennille in many years and, as a result, a live recording (their first) was released to commemorate the event. In the middle of 2002, Connor won an Echo Award for "Female National Rock/Pop Artist". In November 2003, Tennille performed a benefit concert for the Reno Chamber Orchestra where her surprise guest was none other than Dragon. The singles all came from her Green Eyed Soul Album which reached number 2 on the German album charts selling 450,000 records in that country and also selling well in other parts of Europe going top 10 in Finland, Greece, Poland, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal. The latter contains what was originally their final album in 1982, "More Than Dancing," which at that time was released only in Australia, and is combined with selected tracks from their 1995 "20 Years Of Romance," originally on K-Tel (re-recordings of their songs and cover versions of others), as well as five tracks never-before-released on vinyl or CD. A third single "French Kissing" went top 20 in Germany and top 40 in Austria.

Nevertheless, Captain & Tennille's popularity remained evident in the release of their "Ultimate Collection: The Complete Hits" on Hip-O (a subsidiary of Universal Records) in 2001 and "More Than Dancing...Much More," a 2002 CD. The follow up single "From Sarah With Love" went to number 1 in Germany selling 750,000 copies and Switzerland and top 10 in Austria. She also enjoyed a year as the star of the Broadway tour of "Victor/Victoria." At the end of that project she and Dragon were to have embarked on a 25th anniversary tour; however, the stresses of the road proved too demanding and Captain & Tennille instead put an indefinite hold on their career as a performing duo. Producer TQ produced her first single "Let's Get Back To Bed, Boy" in 2001 which went top 5 in Germany and Austria, top 10 in Switzerland and top 20 in the UK. She released several albums and performed with orchestras throughout the country, which she still does to this day. In 2001 she was finally signed to Sony Music under her new pseudonym Sarah Connor. At the same time throughout the '80s and '90s, Tennille enjoyed a 2nd career as a big band and pop standards singer, mimicking the success of pop colleague Linda Ronstadt. Inspired, she quit school in 11th grade and started sending off demo tapes to record labels and producers under the name "Sarah Grey".

One of their most legendary appearances occurred when they played a one-time-only date at The House Of Blues on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1995 as part of their 20th anniversary as an act. Her first big break came at 17 when she was picked from her school to sing at a Michael Jackson concert in Germany. They continued to perform various concert dates for years at venues around the world and, increasingly, in Lake Tahoe, which was close to where they lived in Northern Nevada. She also sang gospel music in a church choir at an early age and started appearing in school musicals. They signed with CBS Records but, not being able to find a niche there, were released from their contract. Connor grew up listening to soul music under the influence of her grandfather who was born in New Orleans. Subsequent singles achieved only moderate success, and when Bogart died in 1982, the company went bankrupt, and the duo were left without a record company. Sarah Connor was born in Delmenhorst (Lower Saxony) near Bremen in Germany as Sarah Lewe.

Neil Bogart signed them to a contract with Casablanca Records and they reached number one with their first single "Do That To Me One More Time". Sarah Connor (born June 13, 1980) is a German pop music singer who has enjoyed a great deal of success on European pop charts in the early 2000s. They also left A&M when it began to turn its attentions to the newly signed punk rock act Sex Pistols at the expense of acts such as Carpenters and themselves. All Music Guide Sarah Connor page (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDMISS70311071654390588&sql=Bqlf4zff2eh2k/). Such was their level of success that they were given their own television show, but they were not happy with its format and asked to be released from their contract. Sarah Connor Sony page (http://www.sarahconnorusa.com/). Over the next few years they released a string of hit singles including "The Way I Want To Touch You", "Lonely Night (Angel Face)", "Shop Around", "Muskrat Love", and "You Never Done It Like That". Sarah Connor page (http://www.sarah-connor.com/indexeng.php/).

In November of 1975, they got married. Sarah Connor (2004). They also received a Grammy Award for Record of the Year for this recording, which also gave Sedaka his first Grammy. Key To My Soul (2003). Their first single, a cover version of Neil Sedaka's "Love Will Keep Us Together" spent four weeks at number one in the US in 1975 and became the top selling single of the year. Unbelievable (2002). Their popularity as a musical duo reached unprecedented heights for The Smokehouse which, after Dragon & Tennille released a single on their own label (Butterscotch Castle Records) as Captain & Tennille, eventually led to a recording contract with A&M Records. Green Eyed Soul (2001).

They soon discovered they made a great team on their own and began performing on a regular basis at The Smokehouse club in Encino, CA (Los Angeles), initially billed as The Dragons. boyband Natural. Tennille hired Dragon as a musician for the production after which, in turn, Dragon helped Tennille land a gig as a touring keyboardist with The Beach Boys. It features the U.S. When they met in 1971 in San Francisco, Dragon had been performing for a few years as a keyboardist for The Beach Boys and Tennille was staging a musical she had written called "Mother Earth" at the Marines Memorial Theatre. "Just One Last Dance" has reached number 1 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and reached top 40 on a composite World Top 40. The duo consists of "The Captain", Daryl Dragon (born August 27, 1942) and "Tennille", Toni Tennille (born May 8, 1943). "Music Is The Key" featuring New York a capella singers Naturally 7 went to number 1 in Germany, number 2 in Switzerland, top ten in Austria and top 40 on composite European and world dance/trance charts; and.

The Captain & Tennille are a husband and wife US pop music duo who achieved success during the 1970s. "Bounce" went top 20 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. "He's Unbelievable" went top 20 in Germany and Austria; and. "Skin To Skin" went top 10 on a composite European top 10 chart, as well as Germany, Austria and Portugal;.