Kenny Loggins was one half of the successful duo Loggins & Messina in the Seventies, and started his solo career in 1977 with the album Celebrate Me Home. His first single from that album, “I Believe In Love,” was a song he wrote with Alan and Marilyn Bergman for the 1976 film A Star Is Born, where Barbra Streisand introduced it. Kenny’s recording reached #37 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
Kenny wrote so much music for movies in the late Seventies and early Eightes that he earned the nickname “King of the Movie Soundtrack.” Songs included “I’m All Right” for Caddyshack, “Danger Zone” for Top Gun, and by far his most successful song for movies, “Footloose” for the movie of the same name. It reached #1 on the Hot 100, #2 on the Mainstream Rock chart, #1 in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and #6 in the UK.
Kenny Loggins, your Two for Tuesday, May 19, 2020.
The first song …not my style but I danced many a Time to Footloose even though I never saw the film.
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Wowza! Great choices today!
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Thank you!
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You’re welcome!
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Loved Footloose and the entire soundtrack!
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You know, I’ve neither seen the movie nor heard the whole soundtrack, but I know it was a cultural phenomenon…
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There were dark moments in it actually but overall upbeat and fun. I would watch it again. My kids didn’t like it though…
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Footloose!!!!
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Yep!
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Gotta cut loose ….footloose …
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That’s all I know of the song…
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Nice music choices today, John H.
and I have never heard the I believe in Love song, so that was upbeat and fun –
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It wasn’t really one of his bigger hits. It barely made the Top 40. Shame, too, it’s a nice song.
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such a nice jam!!
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