1. Toni Tennille performed musical work independently of Dragon, including solo albums and session work.
18 Facts About Toni Tennille
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Toni Tennille was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, and has three younger sisters.
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Toni Tennille had been a singer with Bob Crosby's Bob-Cats.
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Toni Tennille graduated from Sidney Lanier High School and then for two years attended Auburn University in Alabama, where she studied classical piano and sang with a local big band, the Auburn Knights.
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In 1959, after her father's furniture store failed, Toni Tennille's family moved from Montgomery to Balboa, California, where she worked first as a file clerk and then as a statistical analyst for North American Rockwell Corporation.
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In 1971, Toni Tennille met her future husband Daryl Dragon in San Francisco during auditions for Mother Earth.
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Toni Tennille played electric piano with the band during their 1972 tour, and it is during this time that Toni Tennille composed "The Way I Want to Touch You".
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Such was the level of their popularity that they were given their own television variety show, The Captain and Toni Tennille, which featured Toni Tennille and Dragon performing musical numbers and comedy sketches with various guest stars.
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Toni Tennille appeared as a backing vocalist on tracks by Art Garfunkel and the Beach Boys, as well as Pink Floyd for whom she performed backing vocals on The Wall.
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Toni Tennille ran off to find a friend who had brought the LP to the show, and looked at the back to see if my name was really on there.
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On July 8,1980, Toni Tennille sang the national anthem at the Major League Baseball All-Star game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
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Toni Tennille made two guest appearances on "The Love Boat": Season 2 Episode 6, which aired on October 21,1978, and Season 4 Episode 28 which aired on May 16,1981.
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Toni Tennille performed with orchestras throughout the country and subsequently recorded several solo albums including More Than You Know, and All of Me.
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In November 2003, Toni Tennille performed a benefit concert for the Reno, Nevada Chamber Orchestra, where her surprise guest was Dragon.
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Toni Tennille married her first husband, former drummer Kenneth Shearer, in June 1962 at the age of 22.
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Toni Tennille stated that their accountant told them they would do "a lot better with taxes" if they were married.
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In 2015, Toni Tennille moved to Florida at the suggestion of her sister Jane.
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Dragon stated in a February 2017 interview with People that Toni Tennille had returned to Arizona to assist him following a serious health-related incident he had experienced the previous year.