• Source: Keep the Fire

      • 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". 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."


      = Film

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


      Track listing




      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




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      References

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