The song is about a couple fighting to keep their flame alive, but Sedaka says that he and Greenfield were really writing about each other. They wrote “Love Will Keep Us Together” in 1973 - during their last-ever co-writing session, before Greenfield moved to California. It didn’t make financial sense for them to keep working together. Sedaka and Greenfield were both creatures of the Brill Building era, but that era was long over. He and Greenfield had co-written countless songs over the years, including “ Breaking Up Is Hard To Do,” the doo-wop jam that had been Sedaka’s first #1 way back in 1961. Things weren’t going so well for Neil Sedaka when he and his old co-writer Howard Greenfield wrote “Love Will Keep Us Together.” Sedaka had fallen so far that he couldn’t even keep an American record deal. People willingly subjected themselves to this! How? Why? And still I look at this piece of unbearably chintzy gloop, sung by this toothy and sparkly Broadway-voice lady while this boating-hat doof plays piano and looks on, and I feel like I’m staring at a relic of some alien civilization. This was also an era when every pop star seemed to be auditioning to host a variety show, and these two were apparently likable enough that they got their own shot at it in 1976. Early-’60s pop artisans like Neil Sedaka, who co-wrote the song, were coming back Sedaka had just scored a big hit with “ Laughter In The Rain.” Stevie Wonder and Elton John were introducing synth sounds to mainstream pop, and there are plenty of those in “Love Will Keep Us Together.” As a duo, the Captain And Tennille were industry-connected both of them had worked as touring keyboardists for the Beach Boys. Soft rock was absolutely huge in the mid-’70s. Of course, “Love Will Keep Us Together” has its own context, too.
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