''Return to Pooh Corner'' is the eighth studio and first children's album by American singer-songwriter

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 ...

. The title is a reference to A.A. Milne's 1928 book '' The House at Pooh Corner''. Released in 1994, it features songs written by

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and

Jimmy Webb Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including " Up, Up and Away", " By the Time I Get to Phoenix", " MacArthur Park", " Wichita Lineman", " Wo ...

, along with several other traditional children's songs. The songs are described as "music for parents and children to enjoy together". It was a successful album for Loggins, selling over 500,000 copies, and was nominated for a

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. Guest appearances are made by

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and

Graham Nash Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, photographer, and activist. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and the supergroups Crosby, Stills ...

on "All the Pretty Little Ponies",

Patti Austin Patti Austin (born August 10, 1950) is an American R&B, pop, and jazz singer and songwriter. Music career Austin was born in Harlem, New York, to Gordon Austin, a jazz trombonist. She was raised in Bay Shore, New York on Long Island. Quincy ...

on the "Neverland Medley" and

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and Gary Chapman on the title track (a rewritten version of "

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", a song Loggins wrote in high school and had previously recorded with Jim Messina for their 1971 album '' Sittin' In''). Loggins returned to Pooh Corner several years later with 2000's ''

More Songs from Pooh Corner ''More Songs from Pooh Corner'' is the eleventh studio and second children's album by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins, released on February 8, 2000. Among the tracks are seven songs from movies, such as "Beauty and the Beast", "Baby Min ...

''.

Track listing

#" All the Pretty Little Ponies" (Featuring

and

) (Trad. arr: Loggins, David Pack) – 3:59 #"Neverland Medley" (With

, introduction by

Gene Wilder Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker. He is known mainly for his comedic roles, but also for his portrayal of Willy Wonka in ''Willy Won ...

"Reprising" his role of

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) – 7:08 ##"

Pure Imagination "Pure Imagination" is a song from the 1971 film ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory''. It was written by British composers Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the movie. It was sung by Gene Wilder who played the character of ...

" (

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Anthony Newley Anthony Newley (24 September 1931 – 14 April 1999) was an English actor, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he achieved widespread success in song, and on stage and screen. "One of Broadway's greatest leadin ...

) ##" Somewhere Out There" (

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) ##"

Never Never Land Neverland is a fictional island featured in the works of J. M. Barrie and those based on them. It is an imaginary faraway place where Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, the Lost Boys, and some other imaginary beings and creatures live. Altho ...

" (Comden and Green, Styne) #" Return to Pooh Corner" (Loggins, new verse written for his third son) – 4:14 #"

Rainbow Connection "Rainbow Connection" is a song from the 1979 film ''The Muppet Movie'', with music and lyrics written by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher. The song was performed by Jim Henson – as Kermit the Frog – in the film. "Rainbow Connection" reached ...

" (From ''The Muppet Movie'') ( Paul Williams, Kenneth Ascher) – 3:46 #"St. Judy's Comet" (

) – 5:08 #" The Last Unicorn" (

) – 3:27 #"Cody's Song" (Loggins, new version of song from previous ''

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'' album) – 4:36 #" The Horses" (

, Walter Becker) – 5:19 #"

Love Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest Interpersonal relationship, interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of ...

" (

) – 5:05 #" To-Ra-Loo-Ra" (Trad. arr: Loggins, L. Grean) – 4:44

Personnel

* Kenny Loggins – vocals, electric guitar (3), acoustic guitar (7), backing vocals (5, 7, 8, 9)

Additional musicians

Chet Atkins Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as "Mr. Guitar" and "The Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music ...

–

mandocello The mandocello ( it, mandoloncello, Liuto cantabile, liuto moderno) is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. It is larger than the mandolin, and is the baritone instrument of the mandolin family. Its eight strings are in four paire ...

(5) * Patti Austin - vocals (2) * David Benoit – keyboards (2), acoustic piano (9) * Gary Chapman - backing vocals * David Crosby - backing vocals *

Nathan East Nathan Harrell East (born December 8, 1955) is an American jazz, R&B, and rock bass player and vocalist. With more than 2,000 recordings, East is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music. East holds a Bachelor of Arts deg ...

– bass guitar (1, 3, 8) * Steve George – backing vocals (3, 5, 7), synthesizer (5, 9), keyboards (7) * Amy Grant - backing vocals * Lorin Grean – recorders (1, 10), celtic harp (10) * Howard Levy – harmonica (7),

ocarina The ocarina is a wind musical instrument; it is a type of vessel flute. Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body. It is traditionally made from cl ...

(9) * Brian Mann –

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a ree ...

(1, 3, 4, 7), synthesizer (5) * Terry McMillan – harmonica (4, 8), percussion (8) * Graham Nash - backing vocals (1) * David Pack – synthesizers, guitar, backing vocals (8) * Dean Parks – guitar (1–2, 5, 8) *

Greg Phillinganes Gregory Arthur Phillinganes (born May 12, 1956) is an American keyboardist, singer-songwriter, and musical director based in Los Angeles, California. A prolific session musician, Phillinganes has contributed the role of keyboards to numerous alb ...

– synthesizer (4, 8), synthetic banjo(4), piano (6) * Kate Price – backing vocals (2) * Kevin Ricard –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

(8) * Ed Rockett –

tin whistle The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is a type of fipple flute, putting it in the same class as the recorder, Native American flute, and other woodwind instruments that meet such criteria ...

(1) * Chris Rodriguez – guitar (3) * Guy Thomas – guitar (7) * Steve Wood – keyboards (1, 3–4), synthesizer (2, 6),

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

(2)

Recording personnel

* Kenny Loggins – producer, arranger (1-4, 10) * Terry Nelson – producer * David Pack – producer (1-4, 6, 8), arranger (1-4) * David Benoit – arranger (2) * Lorin Grean – arrangements (10) * Terry Nelson – recording engineer, mixing engineer * Juan Garza – assistant engineer *Dave Squatty Barrera - Keyboard Programming * Anders Johannson – assistant engineer * Kevin Simonett – assistant engineer * Manny Marroquin – mixing assistant *

Joe Gastwirt Joe Gastwirt is an American audio engineer, known for digitally remastering hundreds of CDs and LPs for famous artists, including the Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, Helen Reddy, Electric Light Orchestra, Jimi Hendrix, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, The Blue ...

– mastering engineer

References

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