[video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G0sOA6hTg0] The Captain and Tennille bring wedded bliss to the pop charts with their first hit record </h2> With divorce rates skyrocketing and the sexual revolution in full bloom, it seemed like dark days ahead for the American marriage in the mid-1970s . Even Sonny and CherAmerica's favorite husband and wifewere coming apart at the seams on national television, making an institution as old as society itself look very vulnerable indeed. And then along came the Captain and Tennille, just at the moment when it seemed America needed reminding that such a thing as wedded bliss might actually exist. Like a walking, talking, singing advertisement for the rewards of settled monogamy, Captain & Tennille burst onto the scene when their debut single, Love Will Keep Us Together, began its rapid climb up the U.S. pop charts on this day in 1975.[/video]