Kenny Loggins

What you want
Baby you know I've tried
Girl it's been one hell of a ride
Getting' over you
It'd be so much easier for you
If I could just make believe I've made it on through
Fast as you want me to
By the way things go
Is beyond your control

Got it all figured out
From your side of the line
You can tell your story
But you can't tell mine
You think you seen it all
But you ain't been no where
Girl if you never been there

There's a fire
That'll humble the strongest man
That will shatter all his best laid plans
When it all comes down you learn
Who we are â€˜n what we come to know
Darlin' is only where we're willin' to ggo
I'm goin' even though
It's become crystal clear
You'll never follow me there

Got it all figured out
From your side of the line
You can tell your story
But you can't tell mine
You ask me to say how I feel
But you don't wanna know
And you can't really know

You can say what you want
But there's one thing for sure
You'll be standin' outside
Till you've been through that door
You think you've seen it all
But you ain't been no where
Girl if you never been there

Lord
Hear me calling
Help me to understand
Lord
I'm free fallin' on down
Into your hands

You ask me to say how I feel
But you don't wanna know
And you can't really know

You think you've seen it all
But you ain't been no where
Girl if you never been there

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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