Everything about Daryl Dragon totally explained
Daryl Frank Dragon (born
27 August 1942,
Los Angeles,
California) is a
keyboardist, known as
Captain in the successful
1970s pop musical
duo Captain & Tennille, with his
wife,
Toni Tennille.
He was also a
keyboard player with
The Beach Boys in the early
1970s, and got his nickname of "The Captain" from the group's lead
singer Mike Love. He perpetuated this nickname and image by wearing a nautical
captain's hat.
Dragon also made significant contributions with captivating keyboarding and scoring on the Beach Boy's twenty-third official album, their 1972 release
Carl and the Passions - "So Tough". Dragon's orchestrations on the tracks "
Make It Good" and "
Cuddle Up" translated the
melodic ideas that
Dennis Wilson was looking for.
Daryl Dragon is the son of
conductor,
composer, and
arranger,
Carmen Dragon.
Daryl Dragon is the older
brother of Dennis Dragon, a member of the
1960s pop combo The Dragons (which included Doug Dragon) and the
1980s surf band, the
Surf Punks. Daryl contributed vibes and melodica in the song "Wind n' Sea" by the band Farm, a group put together by brothers Dennis and Doug for the soundtrack to
The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun, a surf film directed by
George Greenough. Daryl also did session work with Dennis for the
Go for It soundtrack.
Charles Wright and the Wright Sounds
Charles Wright was born in 1940 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, before moving to Los Angeles in the early 1950s, playing guitar and singing in several doo-wop groups including the Turks, the Twilighters, the Shields and the Gallahads. He also briefly worked as an A&R for Del-Fi Records. In 1962, he formed his own band Charles Wright & the Wright Sounds which included future Watts Band member, John Raynford, along with Daryl Dragon, aka "Captain" of Captain & Tennille.
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