Kenny Loggins

Released: July 7, 1980

Songwriter: Kenny Loggins

Producer: Bruce Botnick Kenny Loggins

[Chorus]
I'm alright
Nobody worry 'bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight?
Can't you just let it be? (I'm alright)

I'm alright
Don't nobody worry 'bout me
You got to gimme a fight
Why don't ya just let me be?

[Verse 1]
Do what you like
Doin' it naturally
But if it's too easy
They're gonna disagree

It's your life
Isn't it a mystery?
If it's nobody's business
It's everybody's game

[Pre-Chorus]
Got to catch ya later
No now, cannonball it right away
Some Cinderella kid
Get it up and get you a job
(Dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip)

[Chorus]
I'm alright
Nobody worry 'bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight?
Can't you just let it be? (I'm alright)

I'm alright
Don't nobody worry 'bout me
You got to gimme a fight
Why don't ya just let me be?

[Verse 2]
Who do you want?
Who you gonna be tonight?
Who is it really
Making up your mind?

You wanna listen to the man
Pay attention to the magistrate
And while I gotcha in the mood
Listen to your own heart beatin'
Own heart beatin'
Own heart beatin', own heart

[Pre-Chorus]
Don't it get ya movin' m-m-m-m-man
It makes me feel good
Some Cinderella kid
Well, get it up and get you a job
(Dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip)
I'm (boom boom boom)

[Chorus]
I'm alright
Nobody worry 'bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight?
Can't you just let it be?
(Be the ball, be the ball)

I'm alright
Don't nobody worry 'bout me
You got to gimme a fight
Why don't ya just let me be?

I'm alright (I'm alright)
Nobody worry 'bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight?
Can't you just let it be? (Oh-oohhh)

[Outro]
I'm alright
I'm alright
I'm alright
Just let me be

I'm alright
I'm alright
I'm alright
Just let me be
Everybody let me be

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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