Daryl Dragon of the duo the Captain & Tennille, died Tuesday in Prescott, Arizona aged 76.
Dragon’s ex-wife, Toni Tennille, was at his side.
“Love Will Keep Us Together,” the title track from the duo’s 1975 debut album, reached No. 1 in July of 1975 and won the top Record of the Year prize at the following year’s Grammy Awards. “Do That to Me One More Time,” the last of their big hits, also reached the top of the chart, in 1979. In the interval, the Captain & Tennille reached the top 10 with “Muskrat Love,” “The Way I Want to Touch You,” “Lonely Night (Angel Face)” and “Shop Around.”
His stage name was said to have been coined by Mike Love when Dragon was a keyboard player for the Beach Boys, always wearing his signature Captain’s hat.
