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This Is ItKenny Loggins

Released: November 1, 1979

Featuring: Michael McDonald

Songwriter: Michael McDonald Kenny Loggins

Producer: Tom Dowd

[Verse 1]
There've been times in my life
I've been wondering why
Still, somehow I believed we'd always survive
Now, I'm not so sure you're waiting to hear
One good reason to try
But what more can I say
What's left to provide

[Pre-Chorus]
You think that maybe it's over
Only if you want it to be
Are you gonna wait for a sign, your miracle?
Stand up and fight

[Chorus]
(This is it) Make no mistake where you are
(This is it) Your back's to the corner
(This is it) Don't be a fool anymore
(This is it) The waiting is over

[Verse 2]
No room to run, no way to hide
No time for wonderin' why
It's here, the moment is now, about to decide
Let him believe
Leave him behind
But keep me near in your heart
Know whatever you do
I'm here by your side

[Pre-Chorus]
You say that maybe it's over
Not if you don't want it to be
For once in your life
Here's your miracle
Stand up and fight

[Chorus]
(This is it) Make no mistake where you are
(This is it) You're goin' no further
(This is it) Until it's over and done

[Bridge]
(No one can tell you what you know)
Woah-oh-ho, woah-ahh
(Who makes the choice of how it goes?)
It's not up to me this time
(You know?)
Comes a day in every life

[Chorus]
(This is it) Make no mistake where you are
(This is it) You're goin' no further
(This is it) Until it's over and done
(This is it) One way or another
(This is it) No one can tell what the future knows
(This is it) Your back's to the corner
(This is it) You make the choice of how it goes
(This is it) The waiting is over
(This is it) No one can tell what the future knows
(This is it) You're goin' no further
(This is it)

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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