The song made you smile, didn't it? No need to question it. It was the 70's. Groovy muskrats doin' their thing, man. I haven't heard this in probably 30 or 40 years, but it came right back to me. Songs live inside us!

@davidpotwin1691

4 ай бұрын

It’s all about the smile

@williamniver6063

4 ай бұрын

Made me gag, as if there were a mating pair of muskrats in my stomach.

@markrichards6863

4 ай бұрын

No, it used to make me change the radio station.

It was the 70s, we didn't question it we just embraced the weirdness of it all.

@williamniver6063

4 ай бұрын

Some of us actually had an understanding of music and lyricism and recognized this abortion of a song for the audio pablum it was. Ranks right up there "Disco Duck", "Ben", and the Starland Vocal Band.

@thebeardedseeker5633

4 ай бұрын

It was the 70s is probably the best explanation. It's one of those songs that probably made a lot of sense when writing during a contact high.

@redpine8665

4 ай бұрын

The only logic I can apply to it, is unlike most critters, Muskrats are monogamous, and the male stays with family and helps raise the young. There! - There's my attempt to make sense of it! lol

@gkitteringham

4 ай бұрын

@@williamniver6063 can't agree with you 100%. The lyrics certainly are a little weird, like a lot of 70's music but not as bad as some of the cr*& you hear today, but this version musically is garbage, as opposed to the acoustic musicality of the America original. But then, music is different for everyone.

@rachelwyatt9635

4 ай бұрын

hahaha very true!!

Toni Tennille could sing the phonebook and we'd listen, she and Daryl Dragon were something special in the 70's

As an elementary-school-aged kid, this song made perfect sense to me. After all, we were constantly being shown a romance between a pig and a skinny frog on the Muppet Show every week. LOL.

@DanalynTuthill-yl4hd

4 ай бұрын

An inter-species romance! No one questioned that. Wouldn't you think that would be forbidden? Lol. This comment section is killing me.

@moodyblues108

4 ай бұрын

So true.

I am a 50-year-old woman who has always been a fan of Captain and Tennille and I think this is the first time I've paid as close attention to this song as I have today. I'm dying.......LOL!!!!

@josephadiaz8343

4 ай бұрын

Same 😂🤣 and I'm 64.

@stlee25

4 ай бұрын

Same and I'm 52. LOL 🤣😂

@musicgrl100

4 ай бұрын

Same (53)! 😆 I love the Captain and Tennille, but I have never liked this song. 😂

This song was surprisingly a huge hit. I still can't explain it, other than it just sounded nice.

@garyseven5791

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I hear ya, kind of like Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict by Pink Floyd.

@tips_and_tricks_for_life100

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@onionhead5780

4 ай бұрын

Wasn’t this originally sung by America? I could swear it was on the Americas Greatest Hits 8 track we had but I could be wrong. I’m old and forgetful.

@ddgardner5671

4 ай бұрын

"Tickle your fancy" just means that something or someone has pleased you, and it's "they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed".

@Raeperk57

4 ай бұрын

What's wrong with hearing a cute song? It's no different than One Eyed, One Horned Flying Purple People Eater.

Kids in the 70s listening to this song totally got it. We'd been raised on cartoons of talking animals portraying every human emotion, behavior, thought process and action. No one questions a Warner Bros. cartoon about a big blowhard rooster courting a bonnet-wearing, widowed, single-mom hen with a brainy kid/chick who wore horn--rimmed glasses and didn't know how to play baseball, continually outsmarting the rooster with advanced mathematics (great Foghorn Leghorn classic, btw). So why not a 70s mood song about love, all the romance and emotional descriptiveness, all the musical themes and lyrical flourishes such a song would have in that era and genre, and have it all happen between the two anthropomorphized muskrats Sam and Susie? Makes perfect sense....! lol

@donjackson5522

4 ай бұрын

Makes sense. Just having that conversation with my daughter yesterday when she “discovered” Looney Tunes on You Tube. She forgets me showing her my collection years ago.

Nobody can explain the appeal of this song. It's a mystery.

@thomastimlin1724

4 ай бұрын

Apparently there was population explosion of Muskrats who bought radios and records that year...

@alansmith7626

4 ай бұрын

I believe it is just the melody along with Her voice, OMG, just so.....her voice just makes it feel so intimate and fun...but does it really matter? lol

@davidhuggan6315

4 ай бұрын

I am nearly 50 and I have never heard of it before

@littleaeros4063

4 ай бұрын

Maybe it’s a “ you had to be there” thing. I love this song

@brucedillinger9448

4 ай бұрын

I can explain. There is NO appeal. Lol😂

There is no greater Love than Muskrat Love.

@jrox6091

4 ай бұрын

😅😂

@juanitadiemer64

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@andreadeamon6419

4 ай бұрын

Nothing like seeing the happiest little rodents sitting there with little hearts floating around ♥️😊

@pattyrosales1249

4 ай бұрын

They are just lucky they weren't Dead Skunks in the middle of the road...🦨

@seanswinton6242

4 ай бұрын

Michael Jackson loved the rat "Ben" around that time. So much so, he was nominated for an Oscar! 😂😂

Ya'll are thinking "making love" not innocent sweet love. Kids love this song, not only because it's about love, but also because of the muskrat sound.

@terri2494

4 ай бұрын

I always thought of it as being more wholesome, like puppy love.

@seanswinton6242

4 ай бұрын

​@terri2494 I forgot about "Puppy Love" by Donny Osmond. There was also "Ben" about a rat from Michael Jackson.

@dougbrowning82

4 ай бұрын

@@seanswinton6242 Paul Anka wrote and recorded "Puppy Love" in 1960. At the time, he had a crush on Annette Funicello.

@DanalynTuthill-yl4hd

4 ай бұрын

My mind didn't go "there" when America did this song.

so bizarre even 4 decades later but cracking up at y'all's reaction!!

this song was HUGE. the 70s were a weird, weird time.

@andreadeamon6419

4 ай бұрын

Compared to today's time - I'm glad i grew up in those years!!

@phantomcollector1976

4 ай бұрын

TODAY SOCIETY IS WHAT'S WEIRD THE 70S WERE AMAZING

@mildredpierce4506

4 ай бұрын

Yes it was a weird time. It gave us disco and disco duck and disco Rilla

@bobsebring2819

4 ай бұрын

It wasn't that big. They surely couldn't top Thier #1 hit record

@wiltchamberlainisthegoat13

4 ай бұрын

Man, there’s weird stuff…..and songs…..in EVERY time period…..not just the 70s. 🙄🙄 I mean…..somebody explain how Justin Bieber became popular. 😵‍💫😵‍💫

This was a huge song. The Captain and Tenille's tv show was very popular, and their live performance of this helped drive its success on the charts. That kind of synthesizer play was new and fun! We all loved it. The 70s for all its modernity still had some innocent, carefree moments.

@dougbrowning82

4 ай бұрын

The Captain had an ARP, similar to the instrument used to make the R2-D2 noises in "Star Wars".

This made me think, You guys should react to Kenny Loggins; "Return to Pooh corner". It's a really sweet song. 😊🐻

@jrox6091

4 ай бұрын

And it's NUTHIN' like Muskrat Love 😂

@richardkint6531

4 ай бұрын

Or the original "House On Pooh Corner". It was Kenny's first written song that became a hit for Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

@VicMikesvideodiary

4 ай бұрын

Animal to animal though, if it's Kenny Loggins - " I'm alright", and the gopher scene in Caddy Shack.

@carolynphelan6734

4 ай бұрын

"Pooh Corner" and the desire to return to the innocence of our youth makes WAY more sense than this piece of weirdness.

@wendyoliver2438

4 ай бұрын

Love Return to Pooh Corner. Kenny Loggins and Amy Grant sounded great together.

Ya'all were too cute on this one! That laugh/ scream that you let out, Amber, cracked me up! 😂😂😂

“I’m not putting words in Muskrat Mouths” 😂 😂 😂 , Amber that’s too funny !!!

When I first listened to this song in 1976, I thought it was peculiar but sang so beautifully by Tennille that I liked it a lot.

lol...My neighbor has muskrats that have burrowed and made a home under his garage. Every year a few babies emerge and I think of this song.

@kathy1013

4 ай бұрын

This made me happy for some strange reason. 😉

@Carrie-so3ro

4 ай бұрын

You should play this song for him next time muskrat babies emerge. 😂

The synthesizer is supposed to be mimicking the sounds of muskrats, uh, mating. LOL 😂

@sarahburford5938

4 ай бұрын

Yes, I was just a child at the time but as I remember it, they recorded this novelty song to show off just what Daryl Dragon could do with the synthesizer. I believe it was considered very creative at the time. Some of their other songs from this album I haven't seen mentioned yet, included "Butterscotch Castle" and the "Wedding Song (There is Love). I think "Wedding Song" was played at every wedding I attended for about 5 years after it came out. When we bought our first house, I played, "Butterscotch Castle" for my husband and he played "Our House" by CSNY for me. I am guessing you all would like all three of these songs.

@seanswinton6242

4 ай бұрын

​@@sarahburford5938Daryl Dragon was brilliant! Great sense of humor! 😂😂 R.I.P. Daryl Dragon.

@sarahburford5938

4 ай бұрын

@@seanswinton6242 Agree 💯

@user-sm3ii5dk1u

4 ай бұрын

Uhh, cuddling, not mating. It was the 70s, nobody did more than cuddle on radio!

Muskrat Susie and Muskrat Sam fell in muskrat love.

@user-zy1ku2he1n

4 ай бұрын

Yea totally legit for us huh?

Back in the 70s, the concept of "identifying" as a muskrat never occurred to us.

@donjackson5522

4 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@marshalljackson9796

4 ай бұрын

LOL

@cacu3989

Ай бұрын

DEAD😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

A MUST HEAR Classic,, America "Muskrat Love" ❤

@memorylane7068

4 ай бұрын

Don't listen to the America one either. It's not much better. Too many other great America songs to cover.

@randytorres8211

4 ай бұрын

Muskrat Love by America is also a cover. The song was written by Willis Alan Ramsey. The song was first recorded in 1972 by Ramsey for his sole album release Willis Alan Ramsey.

@user-ze2vq2tm3w

4 ай бұрын

The original titled Muskrat Candlelight by Willis Allen Remsey 1972 America recorded it in 1973 titled Muskrat Love Captain & Tennille did a recording of Muskrat Love September 1973

@happymethehappyone8300

4 ай бұрын

@@randytorres8211 Yes it is,, I should have been more clear on that.

@happymethehappyone8300

4 ай бұрын

@@user-ze2vq2tm3w And my mom did a cover of it in 1974 titled "Muskrats Do The Nasty"

Muskrats are a common aquatic rodent found in Texas. Willis Alan Ramsey, who wrote the song and first recorded it under the title "Muskrat Candlelight," is a legendary Texas singer-songwriter who only released one album (in 1971). He pretty much spent his entire career performing in and around his Northeast Texas roots. One of the studio musicians who worked on America's albums brought the song to their attention, they had a minor hit with it in 1973. Of course, it was Captain and Tennille that made it into a huge hit a couple years later.

@NavvyMom

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the backstory.

I saw them at Six Flags Over Texas as a teenager around 76 or 77. It was a late afternoon show and we needed a break from walking and rides. During the Muskrat sounds at the end, the Captain was doing extra long version/solo. At one point he stood up, then acted like he was stomping on the Muskrats. Everyone laughed, then some banter between C & T.

5 yr old me loved this song and 50yrs later still do 🥰 Also husband just walked through and said “Woah! This was one of my favourite songs when I was a kid!” So there’s that 😂

This song is the perfect example that it didn't matter what she sang , Toni Tennille's voice was just smooth and appealing.

I always liked this song, it was a refreshing lite tune that made me smile, it didnt need any explaination it just was fun

Jay & Amber, you'll love their "The Way I Want to Touch You" !! (for your 4th song from them)

No explanation needed. It’s exactly what you think….two muskrats gettin’ it on. 😂 Believe it or not, I actually love this song. I find it relaxing. Maybe I’m in the minority, because it’s been so maligned over the years, but it’s one of my guilty pleasures. Don’t judge me too harshly. 😂😂😂😂

😮⛵️😮🎹🎹🎹😮 also done by America😮 The Muskrat sound done by Captains keyboards was high-tech back then😮 but its context is along the lines of puppy love in comparison. You can find love n joy everywhere in life.

@4508bluesky

4 ай бұрын

This was America’s song, and this is a cover, though this was the hit…

@thomasmacdiarmid8251

4 ай бұрын

@@4508bluesky I so much prefer America's version.

@4508bluesky

4 ай бұрын

@@thomasmacdiarmid8251 I’ve actually only heard America’s version once… someone that I knew had their greatest hits album… it’s hard for me to hear different versions sometimes… ha…

@4508bluesky

4 ай бұрын

@@thomasmacdiarmid8251 Most of C&T’s hits were covers, I think? Love Will Keep us Together is a Neil Sedaka tune, Shop Around was a Miracles song, etc…

@kathimoore6527

4 ай бұрын

Willis Alan Ramsey wrote the song and it’s also on his only album.

Dude just let it flow over ya, don’t worry bout the words, they just sort of fell into place…peace

Your reaction is so funny. This was a very popular song in the’70’s. We just went with it. Love your expressions❤

I used to love this song when I was kid.

Another strange 70's hit that you wouldn't expect from the singer is The Carpenter's "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"

@bjdefilippo447

4 ай бұрын

So true!

@MarkMcLT

4 ай бұрын

LOVE it!!!

@dougbrowning82

4 ай бұрын

Calling Occupants was written by Canadian group, Klaatu, for World Contact Day 1976. It is basically the text of a message sent out into space annually (March 15) by the International Flying Saucer Bureau since 1953.

@David-ng7cr

4 ай бұрын

Like both versions. I didn't know it was written by a Canadian 😊​@@dougbrowning82

The Captain & Tennille were invited to the White House for a state visit by Queen Elizabeth back in the 70s and this is the song they performed! Now, if you want to hear my favorite Captain & Tennille hit (besides Love Will Keep Us Together), check out their top 10 hit, "You Never Done It Like That." I think you'll be quite surprised as it's unlike any of their other hits.

Originally written and recorded by Willis Alan Ramsey, America had a modest hit with "Muskrat Love" in 1973 - three years before Captain & Tennille. I am partial to America's version.

@dougbrowning82

4 ай бұрын

The Captain & Tennille added the song to their nightclub routine after hearing America's version on the radio.

I remember when this song came out. I was scratching my head.

When I first heard it, I was perfectly aware that they were talking about muskrats. At one point, there was a group that attempted to have the song banned; the judge responded by dismissing the case it, stating "you've GOT to be kidding me!"; I heard this from a popular radio DJ at the time.

🤣🤣🤣 Muskrat Suzie, Muskrat Sam. Remember the lyrics to the song On and On by Stephen Bishop, “Lonesome sue, she's in love with ol' Sam Take him from the fire into the frying pan”. Muskrat Sam better watch his back he may end up on a plate. Sorry I couldn’t resist, just some of my silly humor

@Kathe255

4 ай бұрын

That was good!

Haha… Jay, a popular line in tv shows and movies was referencing getting stuck listening to the muzak version of Muskrat love in an elevator.

"Muskrats deserve love"... Words to live by! Thanks for the laugh.

Y’all are too cute. This was a fun reaction! 😂

This song was meant to be a sweet & whimsical love story of a young muskrat couple,, IMHO,, America was the best at providing that exact feel.

This song by them was a big hit for them in 1976, but it's actually a cover, it was originally called "Muskrat By Candlelight" and was by 'Willis Alan Ramsay' in 1972, then shortly after in '73 it was covered by the band 'America' they renamed it "Muskrat Love", then 'Captain and Tennille' covered it in '76.

I love this song. I have this on my download list and it shuffles on this every once in awhile. It cracks my wife and kids up.

After all these years I still have questions about this song 🤣 I wonder if David Attenborough has ever heard this 🤣🤣

@Carrie-so3ro

4 ай бұрын

That's too funny! Love it!

I liked it back then but never thought it was about real muskrats. She has a sweet voice and it was a calming kind of song.

This is the sweetest song!!!!!! I just loved it. I never put much to it, just sweetness.

Rumor has it the backing musicians were Alvin and the Chipmunks.

@kathy1013

4 ай бұрын

Good one! 😂

I was born in 67. When this song came on the radio - it got turned up real loud!!

@seanswinton6242

4 ай бұрын

Same here. Yes, I did the same thing. Ironically, Michael Jackson's "Ben," you remember, the song about the rat from "Willard" that was Oscar nominated, was also popular. That was the very first 45 single I ever bought! 😂

@andreadeamon6419

4 ай бұрын

@@seanswinton6242 my first 45 was cliff Richard devil woman. Then people would ask me what i wanted for my birthday it would be a Michael lp. They would ask - do you want anything else i would always reply - no thank you. I grew up (and it still happens at times) ear issues and i would lose my hearing and be down with ear infections. That's also why I'm an elvis fan. Mom would put in her lp and i would stay nothing the words - you can say i felt the songs. The bass and the drums. Started knowing what songs were being played by how they felt. You don't feel a guitar or keyboards. A bass player friend of mine understood what i was saying after he thought about it. Actually he said Holy 💩 you're right. So hearing songs like muskrat love was so sweet to my ears hearing a story about critters - i loved it. Knowing i wouldn't be able to hear hurt just as much as the infection. Saturday mornings i loved watching the Jackson 5 cartoons. Those were the best.

@andreadeamon6419

4 ай бұрын

@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee you missed out or you don't understand when you're little and you can't hear. Don't take things for granted. What you have today - you might not have tomorrow ✝️

This was such a big hit, never questioned that it was muskrats in love.. Capt and Tennille were very popular.

The muskrats deserve to have their love respected!

Often overlooked/forgotten MUST HEAR classics,, The Buoys "Timothy",, Stealers Wheel "Star",, Smith "Baby It's You",, The Blackbyrds "Walking In Rhythm"

@SamCarter-stp

4 ай бұрын

Isn't "Timothy" the song about cannibalism? I'm sure they'll love that one. lol

@happymethehappyone8300

4 ай бұрын

@@SamCarter-stp Yes,, well sort of,, their managers at the time suggested that they leave out an important bit of information,, making the song more shocking & causing a much bigger impact/popularity,, But that ended up working too good & most radio stations refused to play it,, But after the radio stations were being constantly flooded for requests for the song,, they finally gave in,, began to play it & it became a huge hit..The important bit of information was that "Timothy" was actually their mule,, NOT another person with them.

I never really got into this song when it came out, but I could watch your reaction to it over and over. Thanks for the laughs!!

Captain is the one playing the piano, that was his part of most all of their music ♥️🙏✝️✌️😎

It was a big hit. You can't take it so literal.

Never thought anything strange about this in the 70’s, different times

There’s no explaining the attraction of this song. When it came out I was a dyed in the wool hard core rocker, but I fell in love with track the first time I heard it and have loved it ever since. It’s the magic in the music ✌️

I first heard this a few years before Captain & Tennille covered it by the group, AMERICA. Loved both versions! Just a sweet, cute little love song.

Luv this cute and just sweet luv America sings this too😅😂❤

I hope this song doesn't scare you off from more Captain 'n Tennille song reactions. They have quite a few catchy, fun songs, like Do That To Me One More Time, and Love Will Keep Us Together 😊

@ronnix23

4 ай бұрын

And You Never Done It Like That.

@suegreene7841

4 ай бұрын

They did both of those already

@lynaiagreenfield2751

4 ай бұрын

You better shop around. Very fun and catchy.

@kev7161

4 ай бұрын

@@ronnix23 My favorite.

@57doodoo

4 ай бұрын

Should have done "Lonely Night (Angel Face)."

Muskrats need love, too. 🦫

Some things in this world you just can't explain.

when this song came on the radio way back when,I wanted to throw my transistor out the window.

@earth2kosmickitty

4 ай бұрын

Oh no not the transistor radio! 😭😭😭

@timandmonica

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha! Me, too!

@reneerocha1796

4 ай бұрын

😂yes.

@richardkint6531

4 ай бұрын

I thought about throwing my transistor but did not, until I heard Disco Duck!

@thomastimlin1724

4 ай бұрын

I wanted to open my car window and throw up. Muskrats are creepy animals anyway...

Whoever suggested this, I hope you're proud of yourself...lol. It's actually a song by America. The Captain and Tennille were so popular at the time that even a song like this couldn't fail! You should check out Lonely Nights (Angel Face) by the Captain and Tennille.

@scorpiouk5914

4 ай бұрын

America was the originator of this awful song? I love America! SMDH. Yes, the band America.

@magneto7930

4 ай бұрын

@scorpiouk5914 they didn't write it. They just recorded it a few years before the Captain and Tennille. I love America, but I take this song out of the equation when I listen..

@scorpiouk5914

4 ай бұрын

@@magneto7930 Thank you for that! Gives me some consolation.

@magneto7930

4 ай бұрын

@@scorpiouk5914 Ha, a little bit, anyway.

@DanalynTuthill-yl4hd

4 ай бұрын

​@@scorpiouk5914 If I remember correctly, I think even America had doubts about recording this. It sounds a lot more innocent with Gerry Beckley singing it.

I thought we got spared earlier - - oh well,

@sandrahughes8645

4 ай бұрын

😂

I love this wonky song. ❤ LOL! (I honestly don't remember all that chittering.)

It's kind of like the song Afternoon Delight, such a pleasing, cheery vibe that most people probably didn't think too hard about the lyrics. Afternoon Delight was a huge hit on the radio as well. 🙂 Thanks for sharing this one!

I actually bought the 45RPM single when this came out around 1976, and I still have it. It's just a cute song from the 70s when easy listening songs were probably at their peak. Don't overthink it. Just enjoy it for what it is.

This was the very first album that I saved up my allowance for and went and bought it at JCPenney and I adored muskrat love did I get made fun of it even into adult hood? Yes I did, but it didn’t matter if my love came on while I was at the grocery store. You can better believe I sang along. Now the funny part was to call a DJ when you still made dedications and try and get them to play Muskrat love on Valentine’s Day! it’s a sweet song and you just have to love it. Another thing is you gotta understand that synthesizers were really just coming out in the 80s and people that could play of like the captain did we’re just beautiful in their artistry and the captain was known for being able to play the synthesizer so you just kinda have to go back in time and know that he was playing a love song, and for those of us that appreciated it, it came out in the fifth grade we just adored it! Long live, muskrat, Sally and muskrat Sam! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I used to watch the Captain and Tennille show and when they introduce this song it was with a video of muskrats so the song is about muskrats butt is beautifully sung

I absolutely LOVE this song, there's nothing wrong with this song

They had their own show, husband & wife…Captain & Tennille. This song was one of their hits, but this sounds like a remake, I could be wrong, it’s been so long ago. They ended up divorcing later on. I don’t remember all those muskrat sounds. 😂😂💜💜

@DanalynTuthill-yl4hd

4 ай бұрын

America did it before them and the original artist first.

I’m guessing the Captain was fooling around on his keyboards, decided he was making “muskrat” sounds and thought, “Hey, let’s not waste these sounds”, and Muscrat love was born.

Captain and Tennille were all about Tennille's voice and the Captain's genius with a synthesizer. Back when this came out it was just another facet of their personality. I don't remember anyone overthinking it.

@dougbrowning82

4 ай бұрын

They were both part time keyboardists for The Beach Boys before they were famous.

@CassieLopez

4 ай бұрын

@@dougbrowning82 I didn't know that -- cool!

Loved the looks on your faces when you were listening to this one!! Jay I believe you were blushing!!!

Everybody makes fun of this song, cause of the title, but I’ve always loved the tune on this one 🎵🎶

@walterrutherford8321

4 ай бұрын

And Tennille’s voice.

@tomflorio3639

4 ай бұрын

No, plenty of us make fun of it bc of the song

Another quite different but also somewhat similar song from the early 70s was Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road. I am sure all of you who remember Muskrat Love when it was released also remember Dead Skunk!

Captain: "hey hun I have a great idea for a love song" Tenille: "what's it about?" Cap: "Rats f-ing" Tenille: 🤯

It's just a cute, sweet song about 2 muskrats in love, and those odd noises in the middle of the song are supposed to represent the sweet nothin's that the muskrats say to each other. It was the 70's...ya had to be there.

A lot of their music was very suggestive, even though their sound was very tame(?)

The melodic softness and tenderness of the song plus, the Captain's synthesizer riff help carries the lyrics......"chomping on bacon, nippling on cheese.".......

Lol, remember it was the 70’s. But I do love Tennille’s voice.

Muskrat love each other. Susie and Sam. Lol😂❤

This was one of my favorite songs as a kid! I had this album and would listen to it over and over!

You have to understand the context of many love songs in the 70s. It wasn't thought of as dirty but rather just romantic and this particular song uses anthropomorphism to illustrate that.

I was in elementary school when this song was released. Absolutely loved it. Being a kid and an animal lover, I just thought it was a neat song about little critters. I'd seen muskrats down by the creek, so I could see them in my mind's eye while listening to the song. Incidentally, The Captain and Tennille was my first concert. They were playing in the nearest big city and my mother and one of her workmates took her daughter and me to see them. Around 50 years later, I still remember it.

The Captain & Tennille were a great husband & wife pop duo with lots of hits in the 70's. "Love Will Keep Us Together" was their biggest hit but they had other songs such as "The Way I Want To Touch You", "Do That To Me One More Time", "Lonely Night (Angel Face)", "You Never Done It Like That", "Circles", "Shop Around", "Come In From The Rain" etc. Sadly Daryl Dragon (The Captain) passed away in 2019. The group "America" did a version of "Muskrat Love" in 1973.

Muskrat love. Ok Rob Squad

@jaysiegel4742

4 ай бұрын

apparently THAT's what the people want.........

Had you asked me, I would have told you to stroll right on past this unexplainable hit in Captain & Tennille's catalog! Their best songs are Love Will Keep Us Together, Shop Around, Lonely Night (Angel Face), You Never Done It Like That and Do That To Me One More Time.

I love this song. It's silly but cute and her voice is incredible.

I remember this song, it was so sweet

Hold it together, ya'll. You're getting close to losing it completely.🤣

Yeah. This was played so many times a day back in the 70s. It is just a mellow, sweet tune. Daryl Dragon had such a way with the synth, and Toni Tennille just had a pleasant voice. Total mystery what the appeal was/is, maybe it is just a sweet, upbeat, little love song and sometimes you just need a little sweetness to smooth out your day.

That sound towards the end was the Muskrat motorboating.

Hahaha!!! I laughed like crazy when you stopped the song to discuss the fact that it's about muskrats! Yeah, whyyyyy? It's not a song I prefer despite her beautiful voice. My sister never fails to mention how much she hates this song. One reason some couples consider this their song (I guarantee it's just the women😅) is nostalgia. That's gotta be it! Maybe it was played at their high school prom. Be blessed❤

@loristone9242

4 ай бұрын

Ugh. I agree with your sister. I detested this song when it came out. Even as a kid I understood the cringe. 😂I much prefer their other songs.

It's just a cute love song. It could be about Mickey and Minnie mouse, or anybody. Love is universal....

The captain was a keyboard player for the Beach boys and often wore a Captains hat thus his nickname, his wife Toni Tennille was a backup singer for Pink Floyds The Wall in 1979

😂😂 Don’t hold that one against us!! All I know is, anybody putting that on in our bar jukebox would’ve been out faster than Jimmy Stewart and his angel from the bar in “it’s a wonderful life!“😂

Because it's fun and silly! We call my sister Suzette, Susie, and sing this to her 💚 Plus you've got the great vocals of Toni and those keys from the Captain. Can't go wrong 🎶🎵