# Captain and Tennille Divorcing! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2014, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495 "2014-01-23T02:25:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/61 "2014-01-23T23:26:14Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > My parents were fans. I will never forgive them for Muskrat Love. Worst damned song ever recorded. sounds like real entertainment compared to American Pie. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/62 "2014-01-24T03:06:50Z")
-nm-. Redundant. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/63 "2014-01-24T03:08:59Z")
I Rear up and Command these un-Warrented puns to cease. Seriously, condolences Mr. and Mrs. Dragon. They sound like good sorts, who’ve suffered some bad luck. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/64 "2014-01-24T03:39:50Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > My parents were fans. I will never forgive them for Muskrat Love. Was this “Muskrat Love” some sort of twisted punishment you were subjected to as a child? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/65 "2014-01-24T03:49:39Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Was this “Muskrat Love” some sort of twisted punishment you were subjected to as a child? > mmm I think we all were, although I was a teenager when it came out. Everyone’s parents held it up as a shining example of _good_ rock ‘n’ roll, not those awful Beatles or Rolling Stones. At least in West Texas. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/66 "2014-01-24T18:51:31Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Maybe some sweet-talkin’ girl came along, singing a song. This is probably what everyone would be assuming if she was the one with Parkinson’s. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/67 "2014-01-24T23:26:06Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Don’t blame them. IIRC the song was actually written and originally recorded by America. Minor nitpick. It was a small hit for America, but it was written and originally recorded by Willis Alan Ramsey. A Texan. My god! My state can’t catch a BREAK! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/68 "2014-01-24T23:35:51Z")
> [@BrassyPhrase](#): > > Minor nitpick. It was a small hit for America, but it was written and originally recorded by Willis Alan Ramsey. A Texan. > > My god! My state can’t catch a BREAK! 🙂 No kidding. I’ve never lived there, but even I can see it. A while back I was in a grocery store and saw in the frozen section a box labeled: New York brand the _Original Thick Slice_ Texas Toast ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/69 "2014-01-25T01:09:20Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I just watched the first 30 seconds of a clip where Andy Griffith was trying rip off Rita Moreno, then Leonard Nimoy rode in on a toy horse to save the day. > > At this point, my brain exploded. It's absolutely excruciating!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/70 "2014-01-25T02:55:39Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > When was their last hit? It doesn’t last forever, and sales are constantly declining. I’d imagine their last substantial source of income would be playing concerts, and it doesn’t sound like Daryl has been able to play music for quite some time. Reading the Wikipedia article, she’s been the primary breadwinner since the 90s. While both are songwriters, their big hits were covers of songs by people like Neil Sedaka. The only one of their hits that they wrote was _Do That to Me One More Time_, and the real money in that is in other people covering it, and that happened only a handful of times. > > From one of the reports, they just had to sell their vacation house. She has had a significant career in the cabaret/jazz standard genre. The sales would be nothing like the '70s, but steady enough. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/71 "2014-01-25T20:36:41Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > It's absolutely excruciating!:eek: great galloping rohans! that outfit at the very end! unspeakable! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/72 "2014-01-25T20:42:46Z")
The Muskrat…is Dead. Film at 11. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/73 "2014-01-26T06:55:43Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > I Rear up and Command these un-Warrented puns to cease. I couldn’t agree more. Enough is enough already. Getting back on topic, have you heard the rumours of martial infidelity? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/74 "2014-01-26T08:46:06Z")
Didn’t the Queen of England have a fit about how obscene **Muskrat Love** was after some royal performence back int the day? ---
**Author:** ![jonesj2205](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/75 "2014-01-26T13:15:10Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Didn’t the Queen of England have a fit about how obscene **Muskrat Love** was after some royal performence back int the day? Almost - per [wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskrat_Love): > [@](#): > > Despite Captain & Tennille’s stated disinterest 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.” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/76 "2014-01-27T02:01:50Z")
Said the woman who was singing about slutty muskrat lust. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495/77 "2014-01-27T03:08:24Z")
TMZ read the filings and made a lot of fuss over the unusual healthcare clause. Captain is in his 70s and is in failing health. They speculated that perhaps the Captain will get better health coverage if he was single. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-and-tennille-divorcing/679495.md?page=3)