Kenny Loggins

Songwriter: Dave Foster Kenny Loggins

Producer: Walter Afanasieff

I know we were born to be here again
In the kind of love that you die for
Somethin' in the innocent wind's
Been callin' out to me
Over 'n over

I would build a castle upon our dreams
Or leave it all behind us in ashes
Just to feel your heart in my heart
A promise and a prayer
To lead 'n to follow
Voices that call
From an ancient dream
Remind me of a world I've never known

We are the bridge
We are the fire
'N I burn in a river of love
And now I can sing with all my heart

Oh I believe
All that I've seen in your eyes
An Unimaginable Life

Something in the way that you say hello
Even to the sound of your heart beat
All seems so familiar to me
My soul-memory of love
Leading me homeward

Voices that call from an ancient dream
The promise of a life I've never known

We are the bridge
We are the fire
And I burn in a river of love

I know I can sing
With all my heart
Here it begins
Freedom is in your eyes
An Unimaginable Life

We are the bridge
We are the fire
'N I burn in a river of love
And now I can sing with all my heart

'N I know I can sing
With all my heart
Oh I believe
Darlin' that we've arrived
An Unimaginable Life
Our Unimaginable Life

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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From the albums

The Unimaginable Life (1997)
The Essential Kenny Loggins (2002)

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