Love Will Keep Us Together

Album: Love Will Keep Us Together (1975)
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  • Love
    Love will keep us together
    Think of me babe, whenever
    Some sweet-talking girl comes along, singing her song
    Don't mess around, you've just got to be strong, just stop
    'Cause I really love you, stop
    I'll be thinking of you
    Look in my heart and let love keep us together

    You
    You belong to me now
    Ain't gonna set you free now
    When those girl start hanging around talking me down
    Hear with your heart and you won't hear a sound, just stop (stop)
    'Cause I really love you, stop (stop)
    I'll be thinking of you
    Look in my heart and let love keep us together

    Whatever
    Young and beautiful
    But someday your looks will be gone
    When the others turn you off
    Who'll be turning you on?

    I will, I will, I will
    I will be there to share forever
    Love will keep us together
    I said it before and I'll say it again while others pretend
    I need you now and I'll need you then, just stop (stop)
    'Cause I really love you, stop (stop)
    I'll be thinking of you
    Look in my heart and let love keep us together

    Whatever, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, whatever
    I will, I will, I will, I will

    You better stop
    'Cause I really love you, stop (stop)
    I'll be thinking of you
    Look in my heart and let love keep us together
    Whatever, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, whatever
    I will, I will, I will, I will Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Capitol CMG Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 29

  • Bmg from Washington, DcI always thought I heard "Sedaka" at the end and now I know I was right! For reasons I won't go into I can't listen to their version anymore but I always loved hearing it. The note progression in "Look in my heart and let love" is much better, I think, in their version.
  • Kevin Stibbe from Brisbane, AustraliaCan anyone please identify the musical instrument that plays the solo section in 'Love Will Keep Us Together'? Thanks.
  • Jason Rebholz from Virginia Beach, VaGinger Rogers covered this song as the character Stella Logan on season 3 episode 11 of The Love Boat.
  • Seventhmist from 7th HeavenTurned out that love didn't keep them together, because Tennille divorced Dragon after 39 years of marriage because she couldn't deal with his deteriorating health.
  • Jennifur Sun from RamonaYoung and beautiful, someday your looks will be gone. great lyrics
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 20th 1975, the Captain and Tennille performed "Love Will Keep Us Together" on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'...
    Two months earlier on April 13th, 1975 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #98; and on June 15th it peaked at #1 (for 4 weeks) and spent 23 weeks on the Top 100...
    And on June 1st it also reached #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    Then on September 15th it peaked at #1 (for 4 weeks) on the Australian Kent Music Report chart...
    On August 10th the duo's "Por Amor Vivirermos" (the Spanish version) entered the Top 100 at position #86, and on that same week the English version was at #13...
    Between 1975 and 1980 the duo had fourteen records make the Top 100; seven made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, their other #1 was "Do That To Me One More Time" for 1 week in 1980.
  • Brian from Nictaux, NsThe spanish version of this song is called "Por Amor Viviremos" which means "Live by Love".
  • Brian from Nictaux, NsThe earliest releases of this single will read "Taken from the album 'The Captain And Tennille" this is because the single was released before they decided what to call the album.
  • Esskayess from Dallas, TxI'm glad these two were so happy, but when I heard that opening piano riff, my hand couldn't change the station fast enough.
  • Scotty from Cheyenne, WyAs a sports fan, I've heard a ton of renditions of the U.S. national anthem, but Toni Tennile did the best one I ever hear. I think it was at an L.A. Dodgers game back in the late '80s. Strong and pure.
  • Camille from Toronto, OhGreat upbeat song to remind me of my teenage days, great piano playing; once again, another song ending you always listen for when it comes on the radio: Toni sings "la, la, la, la...Sedaka is back! la, la, la la..."...hey, I always knew the line was in there, but my husband never heard it till decades later when I sang it to him.
  • Rick from Belfast, MeAwesome Julia!!!!! This was the song that my wife and I picked to be "our song" after we got engaged back in Sept 1975...after I graduated from USMC Parris Island, S.C....I still get worked up when I hear this song.....
  • Jesse from Madison, WiChris, you are the MAN! Someone else out there knows a synthesizer when they hear one. In fact this song has quite a bit of synthesizer in it. The Captain loved his E-mu modular synthesizer and as a result of his extensive use of it (and the sales it generated), was slated to receive E-mu Emulator Serial #001, but Stevie Wonder had better name recognition value to the company at the time of its release in 1981, so E-mu pulled a faux-pas and gave it to Stevie. But The Captain was an affirmed E-mu user throughout their career in the Top 40, AND throughout E-mu's own existence. Shame on them! Big business is NEVER fair...
  • Julia from Knoxville, TnThis was our wedding song
  • Guy from Woodinville, WaPhil, those "backup singer" are Toni! She did all her own backing vocals. It's fun to listen to her singing her own backing.
  • Dana from Greenwood, ScDon't forget the version by Mae West and Timothy Dalton in Sextette. I wish I could forget it...
  • David from South Sf, CaI love the bridge to this song.
  • Phil from Borrego Springs, CaAt the end of the song, the background singers are singing "Sedaka is back". Listen for it.

    Phil - San Diego
  • Moto from Pittsburgh, PaWonderful song. Its oh so 70's and that is what makes it cool. I remember this song very well as a child, when FM was still AOR and music was king.
    Glad I grew up in the 70's. Disco and bell bottoms forever!
  • Chris from Charleston, ScThere is a short synthesizer solo beginning at 2:17.
  • Jerry from Brooklyn, NyOn the Spanish version, only the main part was re-recorded. If you listen carefully, the background chorus from the English version is still used.
  • Robert from Puyallup, WaMy mother attended dance school with Toni Tennille (whose real name is Tennell, rhymes with 'fennel') in Montgomery, Alabama, where they both grew up.
    I love this song because it reminds me of the '70's. It was a rough, weird and silly decade, but it was a great time to be a kid.
  • Scott from Chicago, IlThe first time I heard this, I thought toni tenille was black....you have to admit the gal
    had some soul to her...another song that sounded
    great out of a transister radio, which is where
    I first heard it at a lakeside pier on vacation
    in Wisconsin in 1976
  • Dee from Indianapolis, InOne of my 1st songs I remember liking when I was a kid. I was around six when this was a hit and was starting to enjoy music, but my parents thought this kind of music was evil, so I had to sneak listening to it on a small transistor radio. Looking back on the songs from the 70's makes me laugh when you hear the lyrics of todays popular tunes which usually aren't very good.
  • Lynne from Sydney, AustraliaNickleback did a really good cover of this song for an australian radio show, i think it also featured as a bonus track on one of their cds any way its really good and worth a listen.
  • Stacey from Bailey, MsYEs i wish you play more seventies songs like captainand tennille and bee gees and alba and leif garrett more seventies i m a eight track tape collector these songs i grew up on !
  • Susan from Huntington Beach, CaI'm surprised no one has commented on Toni Tennille's "Sedaka's back..." at the end of the song - I always thought that was a nice acknowledgment.
  • Britney from Calabasas, CaWas featured on the show Will & Grace in the episode "Old-fashioned Piano Party". Will played it for Grace in the end to say he's sorry.
  • Jeff from Haltom City, TxAlso featured, more prominently, in the 1982 movie Stuck On You, directed by Michael Herz and Samuel Weil. Go to http://www.troma.com to order a copy of this movie.
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