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In Reply to: How about Muskrat Love by Captain and Tennile 1976 yuck! posted by mg16 on March 10, 2023 at 07:22:34:
Various Internet Tidbits:
1) Despite Captain & Tennille's stated uninterest in highlighting "Muskrat Love" as an item in their repertoire, it was the song they chose to sing at a July 1976 White House dinner honoring Queen Elizabeth II: the press subsequently ran a statement from a dinner guest who opined it was "in very poor taste" to sing of mating muskrats before the Queen. Toni Tennille responded to this charge saying: "only a person with a dirty mind would see something wrong. It's a gentle Disneyesque kind of song."
2) The male half of the 1970's duo Captain and Tennille, who isn't a Captain and whose real name is Daryl, grew up Catholic but did so far away from any muskrat stew, in southern California. Both he and his wife/musical abettor Toni Tennille were vegetarians when they released their hit cover of "Muskrat Love" in 1976. And speaking of 1976--and of raccoons!--that same summer, Tennille went to a coke party at Gordon Lightfoot's house where everyone was blasted out of their gourds and oblivious to the fact that a large family of raccoons had taken over Lightfoot's kitchen.
{Blasted out of their "gourds"--a pun on the nickname "Gord."}
3) Being short one track for Song of Joy, Captain & Tennille made an impromptu decision to record "Muskrat Love", including the synthesizer generated sound effects that Dragon had created for the song's performance in their nightclub act, these sound effects meant to evoke the imagined sound of muskrats mating: the eventual 7-inch single version of Captain & Tennille's "Muskrat Love" would feature an "endless loop" of these sound effects created by having the song's end run into the locked groove of the 45.
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Follow Ups
- Gerald Ford had Captain and Tenille sing "Muskrat Love" for Queen Elizabeth at a State Dinner - John Marks 09:49:11 03/10/23 (0)
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