Kenny Loggins

Songwriter: Kenny Loggins

Producer: Bruce Botnick Kenny Loggins

I got a letter from my love, It said exactly what I'm thinking of
No words can say, Well darling I'll find away
You see your diamond ring, I' here to say that doesn't mean a thing
Without your love, And if that's all we got then take it off take it off

Swear your love say you don't need no diamond baby
If some piece of papers keepin us together I ain't buyin it baby
Swear your love all your really got after it's said and done
Is what you tell each other when it's one on one
Darlin won't you swear your love

I know a lady in spokane, She thought that happiness would find her when she
Caught a man, security second-hand
She got her diamond ring It's sad to say that was the only thing
I guess she forgot, you gotta believe enough to swear your love

Swear your love say your're with me forever baby
No legal paper pressure from your friends will ever keep us together
Swear your love that's the way to hold on babe
Promise me you'll be my only lady, Darling won't you swear your love

This ain't no ticket out , Is that what you think our love is about?
Think twice before you call, Girl get it straight or don't get it at all
Swear your love swear you love

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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