Keep the Fire explained
| Keep the Fire |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Kenny Loggins |
| Cover: | Keep_the_Fire.jpg |
| Alt: | Kenny Loggins, a long-haired bearded man, holding football-sized glowing sphere, standing in front of fantastic space scene above an ocean. |
| Released: | September 28, 1979 |
| Recorded: | 1979 |
| Studio: | Filmways/Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood, California; Santa Barbara Sound Recording, Santa Barbara, California |
| Genre: | Soft rock, jazz, pop |
| Length: | 40:48 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Producer: | Tom Dowd |
| Prev Title: | Nightwatch |
| Prev Year: | 1978 |
| Next Title: | Caddyshack: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
Keep the Fire is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins, released in 1979. 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".
Reception
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".[1] 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."[2]
Film
The award-winning short film "Keep the Fire", by Jake Rice, is a fictionalized "Behind the Album Cover" story.[3]
Personnel
- Kenny Loggins – lead and backing vocals, guitars, Sennheiser Vocoder (7)
- Brian Mann – keyboards, horn arrangements (1, 3–6, 8, 9), accordion solo (5)
- Michael McDonald – acoustic piano (3), harmony vocals (3)
- Max Gronenthal – ARP synthesizer programming
- Mike Hamilton – guitars, backing vocals, harmony vocals (3, 8)
- Fred Tackett – acoustic guitar (8, 9)
- George Hawkins – bass guitar, backing vocals, harmony vocals (2, 3, 8)
- Tris Imboden – drums, percussion
- Milt Holland – percussion
- Paulinho da Costa – percussion (3)
- Jon Clarke – tambourine, English horn, flute, oboe, recorder, saxophone, horn arrangements (2, 7)
- Vince Denham – cabasa, saxophone, flute
- Michael Brecker – tenor sax solo (6)
- Richard Stekol – harmony vocals (2)
- Michael Jackson – harmony vocals (6)
- Richard Page – harmony vocals (6)
- Jeff Bouchard – harmony vocals (8)
Production
- Producer – Tom Dowd
- Engineer – Steve Gersky
- Second Engineer – Michael Carnavale
- Recorded at Filmways/Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood, California, and Santa Barbara Sound Recording (Santa Barbara, California).
- Mastering – Mike Fuller at Criteria Studios (Miami, Florida).
- Guitar Synthesizer Technician – Wayne Williams
- Visual Coordinator – Tony Lane
- Design Concept – Kenny Loggins and Scott Thom
- Cover Painting – Scott Thom
- Cover Photography – Ed Caraeff
- Sleeve Photography – Eva Ein Loggins
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Notes and References
- Album reviews: Keep the Fire . Rolling Stone . February 7, 1980 . Stephen . Holden . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070630050935/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/kennyloggins/albums/album/200156/review/5946898/keep_the_fire . June 30, 2007 . June 28, 2013 .
- News: Niester . Alan . Keep the Fire Kenny Loggins . The Globe and Mail . 29 Dec 1979 . F4.
- Keep the Fire . Jake . Rice . A/V stream . June 28, 2013 .
- Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 179.
