Kenny Loggins

In the moment I first saw you
I could swear that we had met
The look in your eye
Was so familiar
Where and when, I forget

Whispered your name in introduction
Darling, my heart filled the room
And I knew it was you, come back in my life

So we meet again, my long lost friend
Once again, we get to start anew
And it feels like a thousand years
I've been loving you

Girl have you been waiting here, for someone near
Searchin' the world for a friend
Come on in, I've been expecting you
Sweet reunion, welcome home again

How many lifetimes have I loved you
How many times have you loved me
The sound of your voice is in my memory
Like the wind, on the sea

The glow of your heart has been my lighthouse
I've followed it in from distant shores
Now I won't be afraid to love anymore

So we meet again, my long lost friend
Once again, we get to start anew
And it feels like a thousand years
I've been loving you

Girl have you been waiting here, for someone near
Searchin' the world for a friend
Come on in, I've been expecting you
Sweet reunion, welcome home again

Whatever happens, nothing's ever going to be the same
Now you'll find me here at last
Your love's released me from the past
My heart and soul have always remembered your name

Girl have you been waiting here, for someone near
Searchin' the world for a friend
Come on in, I've been expecting you
Sweet reunion, welcome home again

I've always been loving you

Girl have you been waiting here, for someone near
Searchin' the world for a friend
Come on in, I've been expecting you
Sweet reunion, welcome home again

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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