Song of Joy (album)
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Song of Joy is an album released by the Captain & Tennille
Captain & Tennille
Captain & Tennille are American pop music recording artists who achieved chart success from 1975 to 1980. The duo consists of husband and wife duo "Captain" Daryl Dragon , and Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille . They are best known for their singles "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Do That to Me...

 in 1976. The album included the top-ten singles "Muskrat Love
Muskrat Love
"Muskrat Love" is a pop song by written by Willis Alan Ramsey and introduced on his sole album the 1972 release Willis Alan Ramsey; the song had its highest profile via a 1976 remake by Captain & Tennille...

", "Lonely Night (Angel Face)
Lonely Night (Angel Face)
"Lonely Night " is a song written by Neil Sedaka, who first recorded the song for his 1975 album, The Hungry Years. The following year, the song was a hit single for Captain & Tennille, for whom Sedaka had written the duo's hit single, "Love Will Keep Us Together"...

" and "Shop Around
Shop Around
"Shop Around" is a 1960 single by The Miracles for the Tamla label, catalog number T 54034. It is notable as being the label's first #1 hit on the Billboard magazine R&B singles chart, and also hit #2 on the Hot 100....

".

Track listing

  1. "Song of Joy" (Billy Preston
    Billy Preston
    William Everett "Billy" Preston was a musician who gained notoriety and fame, first as a session musician for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and later finding fame as a solo artist with hits such as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from...

    , Reginald Rasputin Boutte)
  2. "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" (Neil Sedaka
    Neil Sedaka
    Neil Sedaka is an American pop/rock singer, pianist, and composer. His career has spanned nearly 55 years, during which time he has sold millions of records as an artist and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard...

    )
  3. "Mind Your Love" (Jerry Reed Hubbard)
  4. "Smile for Me One More Time" (Toni Tennille)
  5. "Shop Around" (Smokey Robinson
    Smokey Robinson
    William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...

    , Berry Gordy, Jr.)
  6. "Going Bananas" (Daryl Dragon)
  7. "Butterscotch Castle" (Toni Tennille, Daryl Dragon)
  8. "Muskrat Love
    Muskrat Love
    "Muskrat Love" is a pop song by written by Willis Alan Ramsey and introduced on his sole album the 1972 release Willis Alan Ramsey; the song had its highest profile via a 1976 remake by Captain & Tennille...

    " (Willis Alan Ramsey
    Willis Alan Ramsey
    Willis Alan Ramsey is an American singer/songwriter, a cult legend among fans of Americana and Texas country. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised in Dallas, Texas. Ramsey graduated from Highland Park High School in 1969, and was a prominent baritone in the High School's Lads and Lassies...

    )
  9. "Thank You, Baby" (Bruce Johnston
    Bruce Johnston
    Bruce Arthur Johnston is a member of The Beach Boys and a songwriter, remembered especially for composing "I Write the Songs". Johnston was not one of the original members of the band...

    )
  10. "The Wedding Song (There is Love)
    The Wedding Song (There is Love)
    "The Wedding Song " is a song written by Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary in the fall of 1969 and first performed at the wedding of Peter Yarrow to Mary Beth McCarthy at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Willmar, Minnesota...

    " (Paul Stookey
    Noel Stookey
    Noel Paul Stookey is a singer-songwriter best known as "Paul" in the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. He took the stage name "Paul" as part of the trio Peter, Paul and Mary, but he has been known as Noel otherwise, throughout his life...

    )
  11. "1954 Boogie Blues" (Toni Tennille, Daryl Dragon)

Personnel

  • Toni Tennille
    Toni Tennille
    Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille is one-half of the 1970s Grammy Award-winning duo Captain & Tennille. Tennille has also done musical work independently of her husband Daryl Dragon. Tennille has a contralto vocal range.-Biography:...

     - piano, duet vocals
  • Daryl Dragon
    Daryl Dragon
    Daryl Frank Dragon is a keyboardist, known as Captain in the successful 1970s pop musical duo Captain & Tennille, with his wife, Toni Tennille....

     - guitar, bass guitar, keyboards
  • Buddy Childers - trumpet
  • Bud Shank - saxophone
  • Hal Blaine
    Hal Blaine
    Hal Blaine is an American drummer and session musician. He is most known for his work with the Wrecking Crew in California. Blaine played on numerous hits by popular groups, including Elvis Presley, John Denver, the Ronettes, Simon & Garfunkel, the Carpenters, the Beach Boys, Nancy Sinatra, and...

     - drums, percussion
  • Frankie Capp - percussion
  • James Getzoff - concert master
  • Jim Horn
    Jim Horn
    Jim Horn is an American saxophonist and woodwind player. He was born in Los Angeles, and after replacing saxophonist Steve Douglas in 1959, he toured with member Duane Eddy for five years, playing sax and flute on the road, and in the recording studio...

     - baritone and tenor saxophone
  • Bobby Knight - trombone
  • Charles Loper - trombone
  • Jack Nimitz - saxophone
  • Tony Terran
    Tony Terran
    Anthony Terran or Tony Terran is an American trumpet player and session musician.Regarded as one of the most versatile trumpet players in the music business, Terran had an impact on the Los Angeles music scene for more than four decades as a specialist of many musical styles...

     - trumpet
  • Michael Wimberly - trombone
  • Clark Burroughs, Gary Sims, Jubilant Sykes
    Jubilant Sykes
    Jubilant Sykes is an American baritone. He has performed with Christopher Parkening and other artists, and has appeared in such venues as the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, London's Barbican Centre, the Apollo Theater, Hollywood Bowl, New Orleans Jazz...

    , Pat Miller, Jane Tennille, Louisa Tennille, Melissa Tennille, Andy Boettner - background vocals
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