''Loggins and Messina'' is the second album by singer-songwriters

Loggins and Messina Loggins and Messina was an American rock- pop duo consisting of Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, who achieved their success in the early to mid-1970s. Among their well-known songs are "Danny's Song", "House at Pooh Corner", and "Your Mama Don't D ...

, released in 1972. 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 number 4, their highest-charting single. The album itself charted at number 16. The album version of "Thinking of You" is a different recording than the hit single.

Kenny Loggins Kenneth Clark Loggins (born January 7, 1948) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. His early songs were recorded with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970, which led to seven albums recorded as Loggins and Messina from 1972 to 1977. His ...

played harmonica on four songs: "Whiskey", "Long Tail Cat", "Thinking of You" and the Jim Messina-penned instrumental "Just Before the News".

Track listing

Side one

#"Good Friend" ( Jim Messina) – 4:04 (lead singer: Jim Messina) #"Whiskey" (

) – 1:58 (lead singer: Kenny Loggins) #"

Your Mama Don't Dance "Your Mama Don't Dance" is a hit 1972 song by the rock duo Loggins and Messina. Released on their self-titled album ''Loggins and Messina'', it reached number four on the ''Billboard'' pop chart and number 19 on the ''Billboard'' Easy Listening ...

" (Loggins, Messina) – 2:48 (lead singers: Jim Messina, Kenny Loggins) #"Long Tail Cat" (Loggins) – 3:47 (lead singer: Kenny Loggins) #"Golden Ribbons" (Messina) – 6:08 (lead singers: Jim Messina, Kenny Loggins, Larry Sims)

Side two

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

Personnel

– vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica, acoustic guitar * Jim Messina – vocals, lead guitar,

electric mandolin The electric mandolin is an instrument tuned and played as the mandolin and amplified in similar fashion to an electric guitar. As with electric guitars, electric mandolins take many forms. Most common is a carved-top eight-string instrument fit ...

, acoustic guitar Loggins & Messina band * Merel Bregante – backing vocals, drums * Lester "Al" Garth – violin,

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, alto and tenor saxophones * Jon Clarke – flute, oboe, recorder, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone * Larry Sims – backing vocals, bass Sidemen * Michael Omartian –

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

, acoustic piano,

harmonium The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the reed organ, harmonium, and melodeon. T ...

clavinet The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tension ...

tack piano A tack piano (also known as a harpsipiano, jangle piano, and junk piano) is an altered version of an ordinary piano, in which objects such as thumbtacks or nails are placed on the felt-padded hammers of the instrument at the point where the ha ...

Wurlitzer electric piano The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from the mid-1950s to mid-1980s. Sound is generated by striking a metal reed with a hammer, which induces an electric current in a pickup. It is concept ...

* Rusty Young –

dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally ...

on "Long Tail Cat" *

Milt Holland Milton Holland (born Milton Olshansky; February 7, 1917 – November 4, 2005) was an American drummer, percussionist, ethnomusicologist, and writer in the Los Angeles music scene. He pioneered the use of African, South American, and Indian percus ...

– percussion Production * Producer – Jim Messina * Engineer – George Beauregard * Mixing – John Fiore * Recording Consultant – Alex Kazanegras * Design – Ron Coro and Anne Garner * Front Cover Photo – Jim Marshall * Back Cover Photo – Marsha Reed * Management – Schiffman and Larsen

Charts

Album – Billboard (United States) Singles - Billboard (United States)

References

{{Authority control Loggins and Messina albums 1972 albums Albums produced by Kenny Loggins Albums produced by Jim Messina (musician) Columbia Records albums