Kenny Loggins

Released: April 13, 1977

Songwriter: Patti Austin

Producer: Phil Ramone Bob James

You've got the music in your heart
I know just how to make it start
You know the song that makes me sing
You know the tune, so play my strings

'Cause I've got the melody deep in my heart
I could sing it alone, but I'd rather not
You've got the harmony deep in your soul
If we sing it together, our love will hold

It sounds just like a symphony
Something composed by you and me
I hear the music that we make
The sound of love is what it takes

To coax out a melody straight from our hearts
Let us sing it together, don't ever stop
Let's add the harmony straight from our souls
'Cause if we sing together now
We sing together now
We sing, we sing

You've got the music in your heart
I know just how to make it start
You know the song that makes me sing
You know the tune, so play, play, play
I've got the melody deep in my heart
I could sing it alone, but I'd rather not
You've got the harmony deep in your soul
If we sing it together, our love will hold
Sing it together and love will hold

Let's sing the melody straight from our hearts
Let us sing it together, don't never, ever stop
Let's add the harmony straight from our souls
'Cause if we sing together
We sing together
We sing, we sing

I've got the melody deep in my heart
I could sing it alone, but I'd rather not
You've got the harmony deep in your soul
If we sing it together, our love will hold

Let's sing the melody straight from our hearts
Let us sing it together, don't never, never, never stop
Let's add the harmony straight from our souls
'Cause if we sing together, our love will hold

Let's sing the melody, let's sing the melody
Let us sing it, come on sing it
Don't never, never, never stop
Let's add the harmony, let's add the harmony
'Cause if we sing together, our love will hold

Let's sing the melody straight, let's sing the melody
Let, let's sing it, let us sing it
Don't never, never, never stop
Let's add the harmony, let's add the harmony
'Cause if we sing together, our love will hold

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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