Captain & Tennille are getting divorced

EW ^ | January 22, 2014

[SMGFan]

“Love Will Keep Us Together” duo Captain & Tennille are divorcing after nearly four decades of marriage, People reports.

[mikrofon]

TT: "This Is Not the First Time you've cheated on me … don't you dare Do That to Me One More Time! ... If you really think You Need a Woman Tonight, why don't you just go Shop Around – and don't bother to Come in From the Rain! I hope whoever you find that you're both very Happy Together!!"

DD: "I'm on My Way!"

[billhilly]

The Captain must have a young deckhand.

[ETL]

[Revolting cat!]

Is Captain going to find Tenille II?
What about their soon expected next smash hit 45?

[Boogieman]

They actually moved to the town my parents retired to a few years ago. My folks met Tenille a few times, but they said the Captain was kind of a recluse and didn’t get around much.

[iowamark]

Yes, I suspect something like that. He has been ill for several years.

[dfwgator]

It’s been 40+ years, you’d think he would have made it to Admiral by now.

[bigbob]

2013:

Not too shabby

[ETL]

Amazing coincidence, I was just thinking the other day: What ever happened to Captain and Tennille?

So was I. About 2 days ago. And I hadn't heard or read anything about them in years.

[dfwgator]

Neil Sedaka co-wrote Love Will Keep Us Together, *in my best Johnny Carson voice* “I did not know that.”

[OCMike]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZQ_GRLLaZA

Interview from 2007. They discuss the longevity of their marriage and other stuff.

[x]

I guess love didn't keep them together ...

40 years of "muskrat love" can do that to a marriage ...

[eaglescout1998]

It is possible that this divorce might be “on paper” only, for health insurance reasons or as a means to keep the state/feds from draining every cent they have left as a married couple.

[skeeter]

Prince Charles is said to have called it ‘rather vulgar’. I tend to agree. That Moog and Farfasia synthesizer combo was a bit uncomfortable to listen to without feeling like an act of Voyeurism is being committed with you as a participant.

I hesitate to admit this, but I saw the Cap't & his wife perform in Tahoe (there wasn't anything else to do, honest) decades ago.

There was a little shadow puppet-type pantomime of two muskrats at the time of the synthesizer interlude where one of the rodents, presumably the male, had an gigantic erection. Provoked a ripple of uncomfortable laughter.

Maybe thats what the prince was referring to.

[massmike]

Sextette: ‘Love Will Keep Us Together’

The classic duet between Mae West and Timothy Dalton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVsaAaL6UnI

[The KG9 Kid]

Probably the most successful husband and wife lounge act ever. American women just adored that awful crap.

Can hardly believe they made it to the bigtime with that schtick, but the late 1970s was an intensely weird time in the USA.

[ETL]

Lol. I actually heard Johnny (seriously).

The song does sound just like a typical Neil Sedaka song. I saw him in 2010 at a free outdoor concert in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Brenda Lee was the other act that night.

http://www.examiner.com/article/brooklyn-s-own-neil-sedaka-kicks-off-seaside-concert-series

[A CA Guy]

Could be they had to divorce to be able to afford insurance under ObamaCare.

[GSWarrior]

Nooooooo.........

[null and void]

The Captain has a bad case of Parkinson's, so that might not be much of an option.

Coulda saved a lot of money on batteries...