Keep the Fire

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Keep the Fire
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Studio album by
Kenny Loggins
ReleasedSeptember 28, 1979
Recorded1979
StudioFilmways/Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood, California; Santa Barbara Sound Recording, Santa Barbara, California
Genre Soft rock, jazz, pop
Length40:48
Label Columbia
Producer Tom Dowd
Kenny Loggins chronology
Nightwatch
(1978)		Keep the Fire
(1979)		 Caddyshack: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
(1980)

Keep the Fire is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins, released in 1979. [1] It is perhaps best known for the hit single "This is It". The song was co-written by Michael McDonald, who also performed on the track. Michael Jackson sings backup vocals on the track "Who's Right, Who's Wrong".

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Christgau's Record Guide C+ [2]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Record Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Rolling Stone described the album as "the new sound of Southern California: a sophisticated, diffuse, jazz-inflected pop rock performed by an augmented rock band in which guitar and keyboards share equal prominence" and "churning romantic atmosphere constructed around a matinee idol's voice". [6] The Globe and Mail noted that, "occasionally, he stumbles into some of the good-time hokey rockin' fun that made such Loggins and Messina numbers as 'Your Mama Can't Dance' so nauseating." [7]

Film

The award-winning short film "Keep the Fire", by Jake Rice, is a fictionalized "Behind the Album Cover" story. [8]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)GuestLength
1."Love Has Come of Age" Kenny Loggins  3:51
2."Mr. Night"Loggins, Richard Stekol 3:20
3."This Is It"Loggins, Michael McDonald McDonald: backing vocals3:57
4."Junkanoo Holiday (Fallin'-Flyin')"Loggins 4:30
5."Now and Then"Jeff Bouchard, Loggins 3:52
6."Who's Right, Who's Wrong"Loggins, Richard Page Michael Jackson, Richard Page: backing vocals5:38
7."Keep the Fire"Eva Ein, Loggins 4:34
8."Give It Half a Chance" Stephen Bishop, Loggins 4:57
9."Will It Last"Ein, Loggins 5:50

Personnel

Production

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1979–80)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [9] 95
US Top LPs & Tape (Billboard)16

Year-end charts

Chart (1980)Peak
position
US Billboard Top Albums[ citation needed ]16

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References

  1. 1 2 Keep the Fire at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: L". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved March 1, 2019– via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ↑ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1996. p. 417.
  4. ↑ Pinfold, William (September 2012). "Kenny Loggins-Keep the Fire". Record Collector. No. 405. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  5. ↑ Sexton, Paul (16 February 1980). "Kenny Loggins: Keep The Fire / Jimmy Messina: Oasis". Record Mirror . p. 17.
  6. ↑ Holden, Stephen (February 7, 1980). "Album reviews: Keep the Fire". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on June 30, 2007. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
  7. ↑ Niester, Alan (29 Dec 1979). "Keep the Fire Kenny Loggins". The Globe and Mail. p. F4.
  8. ↑ Rice, Jake. Keep the Fire (A/V stream). Retrieved June 28, 2013.
  9. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 179. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
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