Spotify randomly picked this. Thank you, Spotify; I’d forgotten it and how good it is.
Turns out to be the first song that Captain & Tennille recorded, according to Wikipedia. They did so after playing a small gig and attendees from a local FM radio station asked them if they had any records. They didn’t, so whipped into the studio to record Toni Tennille’s lovely song about her then-boyfriend (and band-mate) Daryl Dragon. They self funded and self promoted it. And the song just took off.
Her fine singing and the lovely, slightly jazzy chords are further enhanced by some quite good production. A magical, forgotten gem from the early 70s.
Fun trivia: they both played with the Beach Boys in their early 1970’s concerts. Mike Love, lead singer of the Beach Boys, used to call Daryl “Captain Keyboards”. The name stuck and he started wearing the nautical kit.