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Whenever I Call You “Friend”Kenny Loggins

Featuring: Stevie Nicks

Songwriter: Melissa Manchester Kenny Loggins

Producer: Bob James

[Intro]
(Scatting)

[Verse 1: Kenny Loggins]
Whenever I call you "friend"
I begin to think I understand
Anywhere we are
You and I have always been
Ever and ever

[Verse 2: Both]
I see myself within your eyes
And that's all I need to show me why
Everything I do always takes me home to you
Ever and ever

[Pre-Chorus: Kenny Loggins, Stevie Nicks]
Now I know my life has given me more than memories
Day by day
We can see
In every moment there's a reason to carry on

[Chorus: Both]
Sweet love's showing us a heavenly light
I've never seen such a beautiful sight
See love glowing on us every night
I know forever we'll be doing it

[Chorus: Kenny Loggins, Both]
Sweet love's showing us a heavenly light
I've never seen such a beautiful sight
See love glowing on us every night
I know forever we'll be doing it right

[Verse 3: Stevie Nicks]
Whenever I call you "friend"
I believe I've come to understand
Everywhere we are
You and I were meant to be
Forever and ever

[Verse 4: Kenny Loggins, Both]
I think about the times to come
Knowing I will be the lucky one
And ever our love will last
I always want to call you friend

[Chorus: Kenny Loggins, Both]
Sweet love's showing us a heavenly light
Never seen such a beautiful sight
See love glowing on us every night
I know forever we'll be doing it

[Saxophone breakdown]

[Pre-Chorus: Kenny Loggins, Stevie Nicks]
Now I know my life has given me more than memories
Day by day
We can see
In every moment there's a reason to carry on

[Chorus: Kenny Loggins, Stevie Nicks, Both]
Sweet love's showing us a heavenly light
Never seen such a beautiful sight
See love glowing on us every night
I know forever we'll be doing it, doing it
Sweet love's showing us a heavenly light
I've never seen such a beautiful sight
See love glowing on us every night
I know forever we'll be doing it, doing it, doing it

[Outro: Kenny Loggins, Stevie Nicks]
Sweet love
Sweet love, yea
You're the glowing light in my life (sweet love)
Source of pride in my life (sweet love)
Everything I do takes me back to you
Whenever I call you "friend"

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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