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Loggins & Messina
American music duo
Loggins and Messina was an American pop rock duo consisting of Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, who achieved major chart success during the early-mid 1970s. Among their well-known songs are "Danny's Song", "House at Pooh Corner", and "Your Mama Don't Dance".
After selling more than 16 million records and becoming one of the leading musical duos of the 1970s, Loggins and Messina separated in 1976.
Jim Messina, formerly of Buffalo Springfield and Poco, was working as an independent record producer for Columbia Records in 1970 when he met Kenny Loggins, a little-known singer/songwriter and guitarist who was signed to ABC-Dunhill as a staff songwriter.
The two reunited in 2005 to choose tracks for an expanded compilation album of singles and album cuts The Best: Sittin' In Again, which proved successful enough for them to embark on tour together. Their successful "Sittin' In Again" tour was launched in mid-2005 and played-out the remainder of the year. They also released an album that year of the tour. "Every couple of years we'd talk about it, but I was having too much fun as a solo artist," Loggins said that summer. "It was very rewarding for me, and I wasn't ready to share the reins. I still had a lot of stuff to do on my own, to prove myself and to express myself, in a way that wouldn't have fit in with Loggins and Messina."
was working as an independent record producer for Columbia Records when he met , a young singer songwriter, in 1970.
They recorded some of Loggins' songs in Messina's living room and secured him an albums deal with Columbia.
Loggins' debut was to be produced by Messina, whose name would help introduce Loggins to his own established audience.
However, by the record's completion in 1971, such was Messina's contribution that it became a joint release, .
The album's success led them to formalise the duo, Loggins & Messina.
Recording a further six studio and two live albums, the pair toured extensively before parting amicably in 1976.
Loggins & Messina began touring together again in 2005.
Also known as: J. Messina - K. Loggins, J. Messina / K. Loggins, J. Messina K. Loggins, J. Messina, K. Loggins, J. Messina-K. Loggins
From Discogs (free to use). Their entry
Liner notes
Loggins & Messina, the records, oldest first
Sittin’ In
1971 album
wanted
Loggins and Messina
1972 album
Full Sail
1973 album
Mother Lode
1974 album
So Fine
1975 album
Native Sons
1976 album
Finale
1977 album
Records from MusicBrainz; covers from the Cover Art Archive.
"Danny's Song" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins, as a gift for his brother Danny for the birth of his son, Colin. It first appeared on an album by Gator Creek and a year later on the album Sittin' In, the debut album by Loggins and Messina.
The song is well remembered for both the Loggins and Messina original, as well as for Anne Murray's 1972 top-ten-charting cover.
Loggins and Messina recording
In 1971, Loggins and Jim Messina released Sittin' In and, although the album yielded no Top 40 radio hits, "Danny's Song" received a significant amount of radio airplay. Loggins wrote the song for his brother, Danny Loggins, in 1966 as a senior in high school, when Danny became the father of a boy named Colin – his first son.
Other covers
The song was covered by punk rock band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on their album Have a Ball. This cover is played over the closing credits of the pilot episode of the TV show Raising Hope.
