Kenny Loggins FACTS

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

1. He was signed initially as a solo artist by Columbia but was young and clueless and leaned on producer Jim Messina so much they became a duo/band. The first album was called "Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sittin' In"

2. Eddie Money was among the singers in I'M ALRIGHT ("Cannonball right away" "It makes me feel good!") but Kenny forgot to give him a performer credit. Money vowed to knock him out

3. His son Cody Loggins is 6 feet, 9 inches tall

4. Kenny left his first wife for his new-age therapist

5. Melissa Manchester co-wrote "Whenever I Call You Friend" but Kenny never considered dueting with her with Stevie Nicks available. Loggins opened for Mac on the Rumors tour.

[Edgy MD]

Kenny Loggins question: Did he do the complex, layered vocal arrangements at the top of "Whenever I Call You Friend" and the bridge of "I'm Alright"?

For my money, those are the two best bits of his career.

[Lefty Specialist]

Played an animated version of himself on Archer, singing 'Danger Zone'.

[TransMonk]

He has won a Grammy and an Emmy and also been nominated for an Oscar and a Tony. That's pretty rarefied air in the entertainment business.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Loggins co-wrote "What a Fool Believes" with Michael McDonald and released a version of it before the Doobie Brothers' more successful version was released and went to No. 1

Had the title cut on "Footloose," but for me, his "I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)" is the better song on the soundtrack album.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Kenny Loggins question: Did he do the complex, layered vocal arrangements at the top of "Whenever I Call You Friend" and the bridge of "I'm Alright"?

For my money, those are the two best bits of his career.

He says he came up with that intro on his own. I don't know if he sang it. That is a sweet song.

The Doobies kicked Loggin ass on What a Fool

[Edgy MD]

My Five Kenny Loggins Facts

1. Is the cousin of Dave Loggins, but they didn't know each other and only learned about their relationship after their mutual careers had gotten going.
2. For a skinny, hairy, bearded guy from northern Washington, he swims awfully well.
3. Probably owes The James Gang some money.
4. "Whenever I Call You Friend" was co-written with Melissa Manchester, but was instead recorded with Stevie Nicks, but ... it was billed only to Loggins, despite clearly being a duet. Officially, in fact, it was Loggins' "solo" debut, despite being far less of a solo performance than many of his Loggins & Messina traxx. So he kind of screwed over two different women with that one.
5. Is the subject of a conspiracy theory — believed by only me — that he developed his post-Loggins & Messina high, breathy, R&B voice by moving in the same LA studio circles as Michael Jackson.

[Fman99]

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

[*]For a skinny, hairy, bearded guy from northern Washington, he swims awfully well.

Holy shit. I don't think I ever saw that. Kenny's family moved to Socal when he was like 6 years old.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

When I was growing up this song was a staple of NY rock radio. Today no Kenny Loggins or L&M song even made it to this year's top 1043. It's been forgotten, sacrificed to grunge and hair metal replacements in the modern Klassik Rawk canon

[Edgy MD]

[*]For a skinny, hairy, bearded guy from northern Washington, he swims awfully well.

Holy shit. I don't think I ever saw that. Kenny's family moved to Socal when he was like 6 years old.

If I do nothing else in my time on this planet, I'm bringing back the Rock 'n' Roll Sports Classic.

[MFS62]

Why this thread?
Did he die?
Later

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Here's a bonus fact: he stabbed his left hand in a whittling accident which made him strictly a rthym guitarist

[batmagadanleadoff]

L&M made last year's set:

[Frayed Knot]

Why this thread?

Because the Non-Baseball Forum was criminally devoid of Kenny Loggins material.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He really is kinda facsinating.

Not the world's biggest talent but shifted from the SoCal country rock scene of Poco and the early Eagles to become a blue-eyed R&B West Coast jazzer; then the King of 80s Movie Soundtracks and then kind of a joke, but one he can laugh about. He's like 74 years old now, still soft-rockin

[whippoorwill]

Kenny Loggins question: Did he do the complex, layered vocal arrangements at the top of "Whenever I Call You Friend" and the bridge of "I'm Alright"?

For my money, those are the two best bits of his career.

He says he came up with that intro on his own. I don't know if he sang it. That is a sweet song.

The Doobies kicked Loggin ass on What a Fool

I alternated between thinking they were saying
‘Sweet love flowing almost Ev-ER-y night’

And
‘Sweet love flowing every Sat-tid-dy night’

Of course now since I can look it up, I know

[Edgy MD]

I occasionally hear "Sweet love flowing on Assem-bi-ly Night!"

[TransMonk]

Kenny Loggins Announces Farewell, "This Is It Tour" kicks off in March

Strangely, I don't see any northeastern dates.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He's protesting being left out of the Q104.3 top 1,043 classic rock countdown.

I mean they completely wiped him. Solo stuff, Mama Don't Dance, nothing.

[Edgy MD]

How many of those Q104.3 acts got sampled onto Paul's Boutique? The Beatles and the Eagles, maybe, but not many others. (Mountain?) But Loggins & Messina made the cut.

[Edgy MD]

If Kenny Loggins didn't exist, and they made a movie in 2023 about some fictional guy named "Kenny Loggins" who played Live Aid in 1985, the film would have dressed his band EXACTLY as they turned out to be dressed. I'd watch the film and think "That's TOO on the nose. No way EVERYBODY in the band would look so stereotypically 1985."

But alas ...

[Frayed Knot]

That night, after the set was over the the day had cooled down a bit, Kenny and the band threw on their
Members Only jackets and popped a couple of Zimas to celebrate their fine set.
Because, if you're gong to party like it's 1985, you might as well go all the way.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Kenny recounts choas backstage at Live Aid and being rushed onstage, announced as "Mr. Footloose." He was unhappy with how the sound came out.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, the first minute of "Footloose," there, the organ is WAY up high.