What's the deal with Muskrat Love?

[megoscott]

YouTube - Captain and Tennille - Muskrat love

This reached #4 on the music charts in 1976. Please explain. Don't ask me how I ended up on this, but it's even Mego related, so ya know...

I remember loving the Captain and Tenille show---but this is one of the stupidest songs ever recorded...

[thunderbolt]

Is it like gerbilling??

[Mikey]

Strangely, this is one of the few songs I absolutely HATED WITH A PASSION when it was first released ........... But after 30+ years I can now at least tolerate it ... I guess for nostalgia's sake

[grayhank]

Muskrat Love by the Captain & Tennille was just a cover version of a song that was written and released a few years earlier by the group America. C&T recorded the song to score a hit record, because America had been quite successful with their pop singles and they had never released the song as a single themselves. Kudos to C&T because it worked for them!

[Marvelmania]

I can remember being in the 5th grade and our teacher having us sing that song over and over. That and Thank God I'm a Country Boy. Child abuse!