Kenny Loggins

Love, where are we going
And when do we reach the promise on the horizon

Out on the ocean, under a sunset
I was invited to come out and play a while
With magic and move a mountain

Has anyone ever captured the sun
Is the eagle ever truly tame
Given just a little time
I know that you'll find a way

I would do anything for you
Give up the world I've made me
And take you away
I swear from now on
The trust in my heart
The vision of you in my life

My love
I will be faithful
But how can I make a promise
To a place I've never been?

Something has taken me off
And I don't know if I will survive
I believe that everything
I'll ever need is here by the roadside

How can you fly
Keeping heaven in sight
Blinded by the light of day?

Given just a little time
I know that I'll find a way

I would do anything for you
Listen with all of my spirit
For ecstasy calling
You know I believe
Cause all I have seen
From the mountain
The view from the heart

I would do anything for you
Give up the world I've made me
And take you away
I swear from here on
The trust in my god
The vision of you in my life

Freedom is mine
One beat at a time
Where are we going
I just don't know yet
How will we make it
I just can't say
All that I know is that we've finally sailed away

Seems everyone's made a prison of love
But if anybody can escape
Given just a little time
I know that we'll find a way

I would do anything for you
Listen with all of my spirit
For ecstasy calling
You know I believe
Cause all I have seen
From the mountain
The view from the heart

I would do anything for you
Give up the world I've made me
And take you away
I swear from here on
The trust in my god
The vision of you in my life

In my arms, I'll pray
I am safe, I am loved, I am free, baby
I am safe, I am loved, I am free, baby
I am safe, I am loved, I am free, baby
I am safe, I am loved, I am free, baby

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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