Daryl Dragon, the cap-wearing “Captain” of “Captain & Tennille” who teamed with then-wife Toni Tennille on easy listening hits “Love Will Keep Us Together” and “Muskrat Love,” has died aged 76.

Dragon died of renal failure at a hospice in Prescott, Arizona, according to spokesman Harlan Boll.

Tennille was by his side.

“He was a brilliant musician with many friends who loved him greatly. I was at my most creative in my life, when I was with him,” Tennille said in a statement.

Dragon and Tennille divorced in 2014 after nearly 40 years of marriage, but they remained close and Tennille had moved back to Arizona to help care for him.

Dragon and Tennille met in the early 1970s and soon began performing together, with Tennille singing and Dragon on keyboards. (He would later serve as Captain & Tennille’s producer). Their breakthrough came in 1975 when they covered the Neil Sedaka-Howard Greenfield song “Love Will Keep Us Together,” which Sedaka himself recorded in 1973 and had been released as a single in Europe.

The Captain & Tennille version topped the charts — and acknowledged Sedaka’s authorship by singing “Sedaka’s back” at the end of the song — and won a Grammy for record of the year.

They followed with a mix of covers such as “Muskrat Love” and “Shop Around” and original songs, including Tennille’s “Do That to Me One More Time,” which hit number one in 1980. They also briefly starred in their own television variety show.

Neil Sedaka tweeted that Dragon was “a great musician” and “friend for over 40 years.”

“He took “Love Will Keep Us Together”, made it his own with the magic of his playing and her incredible voice,” Sedaka wrote.

A Los Angeles native, Dragon was the son of Oscar-winning composer Carmen Dragon and singer Eloise Dragon and was himself a classically trained musician.

Before he was with Tennille, he played keyboards for the Beach Boys and was dubbed “The Captain” by singer Mike Love, who noted Dragon’s fondness for sailor’s caps. He is survived by his older brother, Doug Dragon, and two nieces, Kelly Arbout and Renee Henn.

Dragon’s death comes as Dr Hook & the Medicine Show vocalist and percussionist Ray Sawyer also died peacefully in his sleep at 81.

Sawyer, the eye patch wearing musician, had battled brief illness according to his wife Linda.

Earlier today comedian and actor Bob Einstein was also confirmed to have died at age 76, by his brother Albert Brooks.