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Loggins and Messina (album)

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Released
  
October 1972

Length
  
36:49

Genre
  
Rock

Label
  
Columbia

Recorded
  
Columbia Studios, Los Angeles

Producer
  
Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina

Loggins and Messina is the second album by singer/songwriters Loggins and Messina, released in 1972.

Contents

Following on the success of their first album, this album built on the strengths of their debut outing. It also became the true introduction of the team, Loggins and Messina, not as singles playing together, but rather as a team that played as one.

It featured two songs that charted, with "Your Mama Don't Dance" reaching its peak at #4, their highest charting single. The album itself charted at #16. The album version of "Thinking of You" is a different recording than the hit single. Kenny Loggins played harmonica on four songs: "Whiskey", "Long Tail Cat", "Thinking of You" and the Jim Messina-penned instrumental "Just Before the News".

Side one

  1. "Good Friend" (Jim Messina) – 4:04 (lead singer: Jim Messina)
  2. "Whiskey" (Kenny Loggins) – 1:58 (lead singer: Kenny Loggins)
  3. "Your Mama Don't Dance" (Loggins, Messina) – 2:48 (lead singers: Jim Messina, Kenny Loggins)
  4. "Long Tail Cat" (Loggins) – 3:47 (lead singer: Kenny Loggins)
  5. "Golden Ribbons" (Messina) – 6:08 (lead singers: Jim Messina, Kenny Loggins, Larry Sims)

Side two

  1. "Thinking of You" (Messina) – 2:19 (lead singer: Jim Messina)
  2. "Just Before the News" (Messina) – 1:09 (instrumental)
  3. "Till the Ends Meet" (Loggins) – 3:10 (lead singer: Kenny Loggins)
  4. "Holiday Hotel" (Messina, Al Garth) – 2:02 (lead singer: Jim Messina)
  5. "Lady of My Heart" (Loggins) – 1:44 (lead singer: Kenny Loggins)
  6. "Angry Eyes" (Loggins, Messina) – 7:40 (lead singers: Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina)

Personnel

  • Kenny Loggins - vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica, acoustic guitar
  • Jim Messina - vocals, lead guitar, electric mandolin, acoustic guitar

    • Loggins & Messina band

  • Merel Bregante - backing vocals, drums
  • Lester "Al" Garth - violin, recorder, alto and tenor saxophone
  • Jon Clarke - flute, oboe, recorder, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Larry Sims - backing vocals, bass

    • Sidemen

  • Michael Omartian - Hammond organ, piano, harmonium, clavinet, tack piano, Wurlitzer electric piano
  • Rusty Young - dobro on "Long Tail Cat"
  • Milt Holland - percussion

    • Production

  • Producers: Jim Messina, Kenny Loggins
  • Engineer: John Fiore
  • Photography: Jim Marshall, Marsha Reed

    • Charts

    Album - Billboard (North America)

    Singles - Billboard (North America)

    References

    Loggins and Messina (album) Wikipedia
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