Talk:Toni Tennille

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This page has been added to greatly (and unencyclopedically) by Marine Jourdan. Here is just some of the information I removed:

This reference is being made here (as it is on the C & T Wiki page) just to demonstrate the wonderful impact that Toni and Daryl have had on fans. Marine resembles Toni and her singing voice is so much like Toni's (Toni heard Marine many years ago sing a few bars of two songs, exactly like her and dubbed Marine, "My Sing-A-Like" (due to training for hours a day for many years to C & T records) in a lot of instances, you can't even tell the difference if you were to be blind folded and listening. Although self taught, she gives so much credit to Toni and Daryl both for the influence in her music career and it was only Toni Tennille that taught her how to develop the rich smoky, torch tones, that Toni Tennille is famous for, that a devoted fan picked up from loving their music for so many years. Not only have the Captain & Tennille given great music, they have also influenced a generation and at least one fan owes her existence as a singer, all to Toni Tennille. So, Marine kids around and notes that she's the self-proclaimed fifth Tennille sister or alternatively, the only child that Daryl and Toni never had (free of labor pains, cravings and college tuition). It's entirely a coincidence that her first name is also part of the name of the place that C & T first met, if she opened up her own Memorial Theater, well that would be just totally NOT happening. Just a few mentions will be made of how this dynamic duo touched the hearts of many (this page is all about them, afterall), particularly, their #1 fan, to show that behind the music, Toni and Daryl have influenced more than just music fans, they did so as fine human beings. As for the genre of music that Toni performs in her solo career, she opened up a whole new world for fans, particularly Marine who performs tributes to them both from time to time, in the C & T format and Toni's solo work.

It still needs more work, as does, I imagine Captain & Tennille. BCorr|Брайен 13:01, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

The Odd Couple

Do you realize, if she'd kept her father's stage name, she could've been Toni Randall? Trekphiler 19:44, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Merge?

Is there any reason to keep this article separate from Captain & Tennille which has the same content? --Wtshymanski 02:48, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Children

They have no kids (adopted or otherwise) despite 31 years of a wonderful marriage. What's up with that statement? 1 in 10 couples don't/aren't able to have children. Some couples are very sad about their inability to have their own children and don't really want to adopt, but would love to have children.

I feel the statement is inappropriate and may even have an element of insensativity related to it.

I recommend it be removed for its complete lack of tact and lack of kindness towards the accomplishments of this couple. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.131.24.245 (talk • contribs)

Age contradiction

Deadoraliveinfo.com [1] also lists her b'year as 1940 and he's usually right on the money--Phyllis1753 (talk) 22:35, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

On the 8 May anniversary page, it states that Toni was born in 1943. Meanwhile, her article states that she was born in 1940. Which is correct, and can we fix the contradiction? --Paploo 12:48, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

1940 is correct. Toni explains it on her blog on the C n T website. She is a few years older than Daryl and the publicists or whoever were releasing 1943 at the time thought that an older woman in a marriage was not good for the image. Another error was their marriage date, they were not married on Valentines Day, that was another creation by publicity people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheDivineDiva (talk • contribs) 20:22, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

And yet somehow her birthdate as currently listed shows a birth year of 1834. She's pretty well preserved, don't ya think? I've changed it to 1940. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carrellk (talk • contribs) 17:36, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Deleted

I've deleted this article per WP:BLP because it was completely unsourced. I also had an email from a party who is in contact with Tennille saying they no longer wanted the content on wikipedia (as they had contributed a lot to the article). Can we try and get the article back up to scratch, sourced and from regular editors? Ryan Postlethwaite 02:45, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Height

I believe that this is the first time I've seen the subject's height cited in a Wiki article; if no objections are presented, I shall remove it. LorenzoB (talk) 17:05, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

@LorenzoB: I second removing any reference to her height. If it can clearly be demonstrated that her height was solely (or, for that matter, even at least partly) related to her career success, then I'd say sure keep the reference. However, I have no idea how it adds anything of importance or is at all significant to the article, especially as it is currently worded.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Marchjuly (talk • contribs) 12:03, 23 January 2014‎

Education and divorce

Are the sections Education and Divorce really necessary?

Education is only a single sentence about where she graduated from high school. Is that enough for an entire section? It seems to me this information could easily be added to Biography, perhaps right before the sentence mentioning Auburn University.

I am also not sure why a separate section is needed for her divorce; There is no section Marriage and there is no separate section for her first divorce. Why not also include this information somewhere in Biography? A mention is already made there that she filed for divorce from Dragon, so it seems natural to include the information there. If the divorce becomes really contentious and takes on a life of it's own, then I agree that it probably deserves it's own section. At this time, however, that doesn't seem to be the case. What do others think?. Thanks in advance - Marchjuly (talk) 04:29, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Reorganize?

IMO, I think this article would be much better organized if it were divided into Career and Personal Life sections instead of one all encompassing section called Biography. Not only would this make it easier to follow, but it would also make it easier to add and organize new information later on.

I think the first section after the lead should be Career and this should be entirely devoted to Toni Tennille's professional life and accomplishments. The next section should be Personal Life and this could include everything else, e.g., family, education, marriage, divorce, etc.

Right now, the Biography section seems to be trying to do too much and, as a result, is becoming harder to follow as more information is added. This is just a suggestion and I'm really interested in hearing what others think. Thanks in advance. - Marchjuly (talk) 04:55, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Not sure if there's enough infomation to do this, but maybe the article could be reorganized as follows: Early life, Career, and then Personal (Life). That's seems to be a commonly followed format for articles about entertainers.- Marchjuly (talk) 23:02, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Pink Floyd/The Wall

The article states that she was credited as singing background vocals on Pink Floyd's The Wall, but that all of her parts were scrapped except for the groupie monologue on "One of My Turns". However, the groupie dialogue is actually performed by Trudy Young. The source link is also dead. Seems like the source can't be trusted to me. I think the article should be edited to just say that she was credited for the background vocals. If someone can find a credible source for the part about her background vocals being scrapped, then that can be added at that time. Aoa8212 (talk) 11:24, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

That seems like an acceptable improvement to me. I believe I was the one who originally added that content and source. It was right around when I started Wikipedia and wasn't really familiar with WP:UGC. The source was somebody's website so it is unlikely to be considered a RS. -- Marchjuly (talk) 18:16, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Not sure that singing background vocals on one album (that apparently were not even used), constitutes her being associated with Pink Floyd - if so, why isn't she also listed as associated with Art Garfunkel and Elton John? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.48.160 (talk) 11:47, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

There quite a bit of unsourced information which has been in the article for some time. I removed some of it and will try to find citations for some of the other stuff. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:59, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Sisters?

What does this even mean? How can her sister be based upon someone else? Is she a human or is she a invented imaginary figment?

QUOTE Her other sister, Melissa Tennille, is based on Melissa Reed, a GirlSense character and the older sister of Halle Reed. UNQUOTE — Preceding unsigned comment added by Al Legato (talk • contribs) 20:16, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Not sure what that is supposed to mean as well. It was added by an IP without explanation. FWIW, I think much of the information about her sisters should probably be removed since its a bit promotional and unsourced. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:49, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

We are related, my maiden name was Tennill. Would very much like to meet you. Not because you are popular, but because you are family, and i can show you where your great uncles resided

Please contact me 2600:100A:B126:3F08:748F:ED5B:9903:C635 (talk) 04:41, 18 June 2022 (UTC)