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Nobody’s FoolKenny Loggins

Songwriter: Michael Towers Kenny Loggins

Producer: Dennis Lambert

[Verse 1]
I know you think
I'm no match for you, baby
You like making it rough on me, don't you?
My, my, my (Ha, ha)
Back to the shack, oh, oh yeah
And nothing suits me better than that

[Pre-Chorus]
If time has taught me anything
You've got to learn to be the ball
And I can't keep from laughing at it all
Oh, I'm going now

[Chorus]
I'm going all the way
Sooner or later gotta love somebody
I don't care how long it takes
Like a shot to the heart
I've got news for you
I may not look so smart
But I'm nobody's fool

[Verse 2]
On a roll
That's enough for me, baby
Taking it slow
It's too much for me to analyze
Still all right
Heading into the rhythm of the summer lights

[Pre-Chorus]
Winds of wild insanity
Blow with me tonight
Saddle up all you cowboys
Gonna ride
I'm going now

[Chorus]
I'm going all the way
Sooner or later gotta love somebody
Don't care how long it takes
You can turn up the heat
But I'm playing it cool
I know it's hard to believe
I am nobody's fool
I'm going all the way (All the way)
Sooner or later gotta love somebody (I don't care)
Don't care how long it takes
You might think that
I'm not going to school on you
Baby, like it or not
I ain't nobody's fool

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]
My illumination
May come as some surprise
You may try to deny it
You're amazed when the clown
Slaps you in the face
Leaves you dumbfounded
There in his wake, yeah

[Chorus]
I'm going all the way (Yeah)
Sooner or later gotta love somebody (Love)
Don't care how long it takes
Like a shot to the heart
I've got news for you
Baby, I'm not so smart
But I'm nobody's fool

[Outro]
I'm going all the way (Yeah)
I'm going all the way
(Nobody's fool, baby, nobody's fool)
Don't care how long it takes
(I don't care, listen to the band)
I'm going all the way
(Who's fooling who?)

Kenny Loggins

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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