Kenny Loggins

Songwriter: Kenny Loggins Richard Page

Producer: Tom Dowd

I've grown tired of fighting
Whether you're right or wrong
Whether I'm weak or strong in your eyes
This is a lonely feeling
Watching you turn away
Why does it have to be this way?
On and on tonight
You've made a point of being right
Making this a game instead of love
You should know where this goes
Someone's heart will surely be broken
Before too long
If we keep on playing this game
Of right or wrong
Who's right and who's wrong
When love is gone?
Who's right or wrong, false or true?
Never used to matter to you
You're almost crying
Saying, "I've gotta run"
Easier said than done, tell me why
I got to know what you're hiding
Turn around and look at me
I've never been this hard to see before
If we'd only come together
For a moment here tonight
You could hold me tight
And ease your troubled mind
You should know where this goes
Someone's heart will surely be broken
Before too long
If we keep on playing this game
Of right or wrong
Who's right and who's wrong
When love is gone?
Who's right or wrong, false or true?
Who's right, who's wrong
When love is gone?
Who's right or wrong, false or true?
Never mattered to you, little girl
Who's right, who's wrong
When love is gone?
Who's right or wrong, false or true?
Right or wrong, lady
Right or wrong, baby
I'm right, you're wrong, lady
You're right, I'm wrong, baby
Right or wrong, lady
Right or wrong, baby
I'm right, you're wrong, lady
You're right, I'm wrong, baby
Right or wrong, lady
Right or wrong, baby
I'm right, you're wrong, lady
You're right, I'm wrong, baby
Right or wrong, lady
Right or wrong, baby
I'm right, you're wrong, lady
You're right, I'm wrong, baby
Talking about who's right or wrong
It never really matters
When your love is gone
Making me shout this right is wrong
If all our loving is gone

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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