Kenny Loggins

I have believed I would always be free and wild
No promises made or broken
But look at me now I come to you like a child
Here with my arms wide open

I follow the song that the voice inside
Whispers to my soul
How could I not, it's my heart that brought me to paradise

I'll be your love, I'll be your friend
I'll be the summer breeze that never ends
For the rest of your days I'll be the road that takes you home
Like the sun and the moon and the star that guides you on
I will be true to my heart
I promise you with this ring

Now I can say this is more than just wishful dreams
Nothing could be more real than
Love
Has the way of bringing you to your knees
Lifting you up to Heaven

I see the rest of my life when I look in your eyes
I love what I see
Living with you on the sunrise side of paradise

I'll be your love, I'll be your friend
I'll be the summer breeze that never ends
For the rest of your days I'll be the road that takes you home
Just like the sun and the moon and the star that guides you on
I will be true to my heart
I promise you with this ring

May this circle never see an end
Here and now I willingly place a part of you upon my hand

I'll be your love, I'll be a friend
I'll be the summer breeze that never ends
For the rest of your days I'll be the road that takes you home
Just like the sun and the moon and the star that guides you on
I will be true to my heart
I promise you with this ring

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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