Bob Andelman - Mr. Media: The Tony Tennille Interview

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Media: The Tony Tennille Interview Author: Bob Andelman Narrator: Tony Tennille, Bob Andelman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 20, 2016 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: ÒToni Tennille: A MemoirÓ is an okay title for the Alabama nativeÕs life story, but once you read it to the end, you might agree with me that ÒToni Tennille: Happy At LastÓ is more fitting. I cannot deny that I had low expectations as I began reading the autobiography of this singer who I always adored as a teen and held on to over the decades as a guilty pop pleasure. The glamour, the celebrity friends, parties, etc. Ð ho-hum, weÕve certainly heard it all before. But trust me, you havenÕt heard this story. If, like me, you are old enough to remember The Captain and Tennille as a top of the charts recording and touring sensation, youÕll remember Toni TennileÕs soaring vocals, her Southern charm and her big as all-outdoors smile. As for The Captain Ð Daryl Dragon, the former keyboardist for The Beach Boys Ð what youÕll recall of him was that he rarely spoke while glowering at his wife and everyone else most of the rest of the time. He always wore a hat, eventually hiding behind sunglasses, too. I spent a lifetime thinking it was an act. Toni Tennille spent a lifetime wishing it was an act. Turns out, The Captain was a miserable wretch of a human being and spent decades treating his wife like crap. Reading ÒToni Tennille: A MemoirÓ is a soul-crushing experience; turning each page youÕll find yourself screaming, ÒToni! Get away from that bastard!Ó But as anyone who has ever suffered emotional abuse at the hands of a spouse knows, itÕs not always easy to make a clean break. IÕm glad I read Toni Tennile: A Memoir; IÕm even happier to know that the subject of the book is finally free.