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I’ll Remember Your NameKenny Loggins

You believed in me on faith
I still see your smile on your face
And when people tell me nothing lasts forever
I tell 'em 'bout the summers of you and me together
You knew me like nobody knew me

I'll remember your name
Into this world of broken hearts
I will carry your flame
Wherever the lonely are

You kept your promise all your life
And now I give you mine
Even when everything has changed
I'll remember your name

When I had to leave, you let me
God knows I damn near crashed and burned, just tryin'
To break free and when everything I do didn't help
And I couldn't even believe in myself
You saw me when nobody saw me

You kept your promise
All your life and now I give you mine
Even when everything has changed
I'll remember your name

You picked me up, you let me fall
You taught me about trust, just let go of it all
How everything, all I'll ever really need
Is right inside of me wherever the lonely are

I will carry your flame
Wherever the lonely are

You picked me up, you let me fall
You taught me about trust, just let go of it all
How to love a wife and raise a family
The man I wanna be's already inside of me

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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