Kenny Loggins

Released: April 13, 1977

Songwriter: Eva Ein Kenny Loggins

Producer: Phil Ramone Bob James

Why do people lie?
Lyin' only breaks their hearts
And tears their lives apart
Makin' 'em cry
Tell me why

Even if I try
Even if I lie to little babe
I know she'll never leave me
She'll stay by my side

Tell me why do the people say
"She ain't lovin' you anyway
So while you keep believin' it brother
She'll keep makin' her time
Right before your eyes."?
Tell me why they gotta lie

When I looked I had to look again
In my eyes a revelation
In her arms the fascination
Of a friend

When I looked I had to look again
In my eyes a revelation
In her arms the fascination
Of a friend

Now I let 'em know
When people say "I told you so."
I say, "Learnin' don't come easy, baby."
I've been makin' like a fool

Tell me why
Why is it true?
Why?
Tell me why do people lie?

Tell me why
Why do they lie?
Oh, why do they lie?
Tell me, tell me why
Why do people lie to me
Somebody here is lyin' to me
I just don't know whether to believe them
Whether to give them an account
To form a doubt, don't want to be counted out
Follow your heart, babe
Follow your heart, yeah
Follow your heart, right on
Follow your heart

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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