Love Didn't Keep Them Together: Captain and Tennille Calling It Kaput After 39 Years

[ValuJet]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-captain-and-tennille-are-getting-a-divorce/

Daryl Dragon, 71, and Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille, 73, filed the papers in Prescott, Ariz., on Jan. 16, the court clerk said.

The couple met in 1972 when Tennille was the co-writer of a musical and Dragon was the keyboardist for The Beach Boys. She joined The Beach Boys on tour as an additional keyboardist.

The couple began performing together and their act was discovered by Neil Sedaka. They released their first album in 1974.

The couple married in 1975 and scored the biggest chart hit of that year with the soft-rock love song "Love Will Keep Us Together." They had a string of hits in the mid- to late 1970s and sold more than 23 million albums.

At 73 and 71, why not just hang in there until the end?

For the record, Tennille was born and raised in Montgomery and was a barner.

 

[alabama mike1]

Sad to hear of anyone getting a divorce but especially sad when someone has been married 39 years and they are in their early 70's.

 

[SavannahDare]

Yeah, with that much time invested, don't you just keep on keepin' on?

I met these two back in the late '80's when they performed in a show I was working at EPCOT. They were lovely to everyone and seemed to be quite the pair back then. I wonder which one of them actually pulled the trigger on this whole divorce thing and why.

I know of a couple that divorced after 34 years of marriage. The husband said at the time, "I'm 64 years old. How many years can I have left - 10 to 20? I'd like to see if I can actually be happy and at peace during that time." And this was a couple that, to the outside world, seemed like best friends and very happy with each other, but he was miserable.

You just never know.

 

[jthomas666]

For the record, Tennille was born and raised in Montgomery and was a barner.

Yup. My uncle dated her while they were at the barn.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Last year had a couple at our church in their late sixties that husband walks in and finds a note on the frig saying his wife of over 40 years was gone. Long story short he told me when he finally got in touch with her she had gone back to her home town of Missouri and said she told him she woke up one morning and decided "I don't want to be married anymore" within a year of that revelation, left. The entire church has been floored.

I've talked to him on and off since and he said he's asked her a million times since what was the reason and she continues to stick to her story. That is was nothing he did or that it was "someone else". She just was tired of being married and wanted out. Simple as that.

Yeah, with that much time invested, don't you just keep on keepin' on?

I met these two back in the late '80's when they performed in a show I was working at EPCOT. They were lovely to everyone and seemed to be quite the pair back then. I wonder which one of them actually pulled the trigger on this whole divorce thing and why.

I know of a couple that divorced after 34 years of marriage. The husband said at the time, "I'm 64 years old. How many years can I have left - 10 to 20? I'd like to see if I can actually be happy and at peace during that time." And this was a couple that, to the outside world, seemed like best friends and very happy with each other, but he was miserable.

You just never know.

 

[Bodhisattva]

If I'm unhappily married after 40 years I'm going to stay with the wifey just out of spite.

 

[ValuJet]

In April, the wifey and I will have racked up 15 years. I can say our relationship is stronger than ever. I just enjoy her company.

At 40 years, if I live that long I'm certain I will have taken much more out of our marriage. I try to give as much back, but sometimes I think the scales are tilted the other way.

As for the Captain, he was quoted as saying he was surprised that she filed the papers. Surely there were signs.

He may have trouble finding a new babe unless he ditches the hat.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

In April, the wifey and I will have racked up 15 years. I can say our relationship is stronger than ever. I just enjoy her company.

At 40 years, if I live that long I'm certain I will have taken much more out of our marriage.

As for the Captain, he was quoted as saying he was surprised that she filed the papers. Surely there were signs.

He may have trouble finding a new babe unless he ditches the hat.

I thought that women loved a man in uniform. Are you telling me I have to get rid of my captain's hat?

 

[ValuJet]

I thought that women loved a man in uniform. Are you telling me I have to get rid of my captain's hat?

Heh.

I guess some sweet girl came along, singing a song.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

In April, the wifey and I will have racked up 15 years. I can say our relationship is stronger than ever. I just enjoy her company.

At 40 years, if I live that long I'm certain I will have taken much more out of our marriage. I try to give as much back, but sometimes I think the scales are tilted the other way.

As for the Captain, he was quoted as saying he was surprised that she filed the papers. Surely there were signs.

He may have trouble finding a new babe unless he ditches the hat.

I think in many cases there are signs. But there are cases where people are just able to mask their unhappiness very well then reach a tipping point and bail.

 

[92tide]

Yup. My uncle dated her while they were at the barn.

did he take any pictures?

 

[92tide]

Surely there were signs.

maybe she found her Shirley?

 

[ValuJet]

Maybe one of them had an operation and the flatulence got unbearable.

 

[bamabelle1991]

I grew up listening to them and had NO idea they were married. Sigh. I guess that makes this divorce no surprise either? *facepalm*

 

[bamachile]

So Muskrat Love lasts 39 years. Interesting.

 

[ValuJet]

Didya hear what Toni said when the Captain said "Do it to me one more time?"

"That ship has sailed, Cap'n."