Kenny Loggins

Songwriter: Keith Diamond Kenny Loggins

Producer: Peter Wolf (Producer)

Somewhere out in space
A moonlit face was watching
Lookin' to find a time to become
Slowly two lovers lay hypnotized
Holding the moment in their eyes
World in changes
Lightly one by one
We try to hide the mirrors
But baby they just keep turnin' up
And I know you can't look away from you
When you're lookin' in into

Isabella's eyes
Shine your light and make your mama smile
All our angels come
To welcome the awakening one
Awakening wonder

Once I met a man who knew where he was goin'
And let everybody tag along
But suddenly love had another plan
Shook him and took him by the hand
World in changes
'N' there's a boy I know
Believes that he's in danger
He'll never give up without a fight
If you open your heart
There's no way to lose
So just surrender to

Isabella's eyes
Shine your light and make your mama smile
All our angels come
To welcome the awakening one
Awakening wonder

Millions of dreams are part of the plan
But you are the one dream that's real
This changes everything
Now that I am
In the spell of Isabella's eyes

Isabella's eyes
Shine your light and make your mama smile
All our angels come
To welcome the awakening one
Awakening wonder

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Kenny Loggins has enjoyed more than three decades of success in the music business, as a songwriter and performer, mostly in a soft rock vein. He was born Kenneth Clarke Loggins in Everett, WA in early 1948, and the family later moved to Detroit, and finally to Alhambra, CA when he was in his teens. He initially turned to music as a way of compensating for his extreme shyness, and found that he was, indeed, a talented guitarist and had a voice. For a time in the late ‘60s he was based in Pasadena, studying at Pasadena City College. At the end of the decade, Loggins passed through the lineup of a band called Gator Creek, who were good enough to get signed to Mercury Records. The group recorded one self-titled album, which was issued in 1970 and included an early version of “Danny’s Song,” a track that he later recorded again as part of Loggins & Messina. He also spent time with a short-lived group called Second Helping, and was a member of the stage incarnation of the Electric Prunes during a later phase of that group’s history.

Loggins was proficient on the guitar and piano, but it was his songwriting that allowed him to make his first lasting impression on the music industry. He took a job as a staff writer for Wingate Music, for $100.00 a week, and later that year four of his songs ended up on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy. This event was particularly fortuitous, as that album was the first release by the newly reconstituted version of the group, and included what proved to be their biggest hit, “Mr. Bojangles.” The presence of the latter helped make Uncle Charlie one of the group’s biggest selling long-players; and the exposure generated a second hit in the form of Loggins’ own “House at Pooh Corner.”

The success of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s recordings brought Loggins to the attention of former Poco member Jim Messina, who was working as a staff producer at CBS. It was Messina’s intention to produce Loggins' debut album, but he also ended up playing and singing on the record, and it worked out so well that the two ended up in a duo. Loggins & Messina were among the most popular folk-based soft rock acts of the first half of the ‘70s and enjoyed a four-year string of successful albums.

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