Kenny Loggins

Released: October 21, 1994

Songwriter: Leslie Bricusse Anthony Newley Jule Styne Betty Comden Adolph Green Cynthia Weil Barry Mann James Horner

Producer: Terry Nelson Kenny Loggins David Pack

[Intro: Kenny Loggins]
Hold your breath
Make a wish
Count to three

[Pure Imagination]

[Verse: Kenny Loggins]
Come with me
And you'll be in a world of pure imagination
Take a look and you'll see into your imagination
We'll begin with a spin
Traveling in a world of my creation
What you see will defy explaination

[Somewhere Out There]

[Verse 1: Kenny Loggins, Kate Price]
Somewhere out there
Beneath the pale moonlight
Someone's thinking of me
And loving me tonight
Somewhere out there
Someone's saying a prayer
That we'll find one another
In that great somewhere out there

[Bridge: Kenny Loggins, Kate Price]
And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullabye
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky

[Verse 2: Kenny Loggins & Kate Price]
Somewhere out there
If love can see us through
Then we'll be together
Somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true

[Neverland]

[Verse 1: Kenny Loggins]
I know a place where dreams are born
And time is planned
It's not on any chart
You must find it with your heart
To come home to Neverland
It might be miles beyond the moon
Or right here where you stand
Just keep an open mind
And then suddenly you'll find Never Never Land

[Bridge: Kenny Loggins, Kate Price]
The treasure when you stay there
It's precious more than gold
Once you've found your way (You'll find)
You can never, never grow old (Never grow old)

[Verse 2: Kenny Loggins, Kate Price]
And that's my home where dreams are born
And time is never planned
Just think of lovely things
And your heart will fly on wings forever (Forever)
To Never Never Land

[Pure Imagination]

[Intro: Kenny Loggins & Kate Price]
If you wanna view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
If you wanna change the world
There's nothing to it

[Verse 1: Kenny Loggins, Kate Price]
Come with me
And you'll be in a world of pure imagination
Take a look and you'll see into your imagination
We'll begin (We'll begin) with a spin (With a spin)
Traveling in a world of my creation
What you see will defy explanation

[Bridge: Kenny Loggins & Kate Price]
If you wanna view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
If you wanna change the world
There's nothing to it

[Verse 2: Kate Price]
There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there you'll be free
If you truely wish to be

[Somewhere Out There]

[Outro: Kenny Loggins & Kate Price]
Somewhere out there
If love can see us through
Then we'll be together
Somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true

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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