Kenny Loggins & Friends - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 2-2-2017

Here's an extra big "PBS Soundstage" episodes, by Kenny Loggins, from 2017. The vast majority of the show episodes are a little less than an hour long. But this one is over two hours long!

This concert is sort of the ultimate Kenny Loggins concert encapsulating his entire career, because he brought in many key guests. The most important guest was Jim Messina, his partner in the successful Loggins and Messina duo in the 1970s. They performed eight Loggins and Messina songs in the middle of the concert, resulting in sort of a mini-concert inside the bigger concert that lasted almost 40 minutes. Another key guest is Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers. Loggins and McDonald wrote some big hits together, including the Number One "What a Fool Believes."

But there are many more guests. For instance, David Foster, a producer who also has been a very successful songwriter. Another is Thundercat, a bassist who plays all sorts of music from funk to jazz, but has a soft spot for "yacht rock," and wrote a song with Loggins and McDonald. In 2013 and 2015, Loggins released albums by a new country band he was a part of, called the Blue Sky Riders. He played two songs here with them. And one member of that band, Georgia Middleman, also sang a duet with him, "Whenever I Call You 'Friend.'" Finally, Loggins sang another song with his daughter, Hana Aluna Loggins. He also was backed by the vocal group Six Appeal on another song. So the concert is chock-a-block with guests, yet it's so long that he did a bunch of songs without guests as well.

The reason this is so long is that a version of it was released on both CD and DVD, so that wasn't limited by the one-hour-long limit of the TV show. But it turns out there were a lot of differences between the CD and DVD. There were some song differences, different song order, and sometime banter included between songs and sometimes not. So I went through both versions, included everything, and put the songs in the correct order. In my opinion, this is the "ultimate" version, better than either the CD or DVD versions.

This album is two hours and 14 minutes long.

01 talk (Kenny Loggins)
02 Forever (Kenny Loggins with David Foster)
03 talk (Kenny Loggins with David Foster)
04 The Real Thing (Kenny Loggins with David Foster)
05 talk (Kenny Loggins with David Foster)
06 Heart to Heart (Kenny Loggins with David Foster & Michael McDonald)
07 talk (Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald)
08 This Is It (Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald)
09 talk (Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald)
10 What a Fool Believes (Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald)
11 talk (Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald)
12 Show You the Way (Kenny Loggins with Thundercat & Michael McDonald)
13 talk (Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina)
14 House at Pooh Corner (Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina)
15 talk (Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina)
16 Watching the River Run (Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina)
17 talk (Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina)
18 Long Tail Cat (Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina)
19 talk (Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina)
20 Danny's Song (Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina)
21 Angry Eyes (Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina)
22 Vahevala (Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina)
23 Thinking of You (Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina)
24 Your Mama Don't Dance (Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina)
25 talk (Kenny Loggins)
26 Sweet Reunion (Kenny Loggins with Six Appeal)
27 talk (Kenny Loggins)
28 Why Not (Kenny Loggins with Blue Sky Riders)
29 talk (Kenny Loggins with Blue Sky Riders)
30 Feeling Brave (Kenny Loggins with Blue Sky Riders)
31 Whenever I Call You 'Friend' (Kenny Loggins with Georgia Middleman)
32 talk (Kenny Loggins)
33 Conviction of the Heart (Kenny Loggins with Hana Aluna Loggins)
34 Celebrate Me Home (Kenny Loggins)
35 That's When I Find You (Kenny Loggins)
36 If You Believe (Kenny Loggins)
37 talk (Kenny Loggins)
38 I'm Alright (Kenny Loggins)
39 Danger Zone (Kenny Loggins)
40 Footloose (Kenny Loggins)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ukorrdF2

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/DVNH4hnJ4R3nhlr/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Live Aid - JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, 7-13-1985, Part 4: Ashford & Simpson with Teddy Pendergrass, Madonna, Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers, Kenny Loggins, and the Cars

This is Part 3 of the Philadelphia portion of the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert. There are seven parts in total for Philadelphia, so I'm not more than halfway finished. The London portion will follow.

The first act up in this part was the soul duo Ashford and Simpson. For their second and final song, they were joined on stage by soul singer Teddy Pendergrass. This was a very emotionally moving moment for the concert. Pendergrass was injured in a car accident in 1982, and permanently paralyzed from the waist down. His musical career was put on hold for a while. He was still able to sing though, and he put out an album of new material in 1984. But this appearance in Live Aid was his first time on a public stage since the accident.

 Madonna was the next act. She was a very big deal, and a cultural phenomenon, at this time, after becoming a superstar in 1984. The same month of this concert, Playboy and Penthouse magazines published nude photos of Madonna, taken when she moonlighted as an art model in 1978. As a result, she made a jokey comment between songs about how she was going to keep all her clothes on.

Tom P. and the Heartbreakers came next. (Note I'm not using his full name due to copyright issues.) They were followed by Kenny Loggins. But he only got to play one song. The last act on this album were the Cars.

As with the other albums in this series, sometimes I was able to include introductions to the acts, and sometimes I couldn't. Madonna was introduced by actress and singer Bette Midler, and Tom P. was introduced by Don Johnson.

This album is an hour and 11 minutes long.

075 Solid [Edit] (Ashford & Simpson)
076 Reach Out and Touch [Somebody's Hand] (Ashford & Simpson with Teddy Pendergrass)
077 talk (Bette Midler)
078 Holiday (Madonna)
079 Into the Groove (Madonna)
080 talk (Madonna)
081 Love Makes the World Go Round (Madonna)
082 talk (Don Johnson)
083 American Girl (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
084 talk (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
085 The Waiting (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
086 Rebels (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
087 talk (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
088 Refugee (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
089 Footloose (Kenny Loggins)
090 talk (Bill Graham)
091 You Might Think (Cars)
092 Drive (Cars)
093 talk (Cars)
094 Just What I Needed (Cars)
095 Heartbeat City (Cars)
096 talk (Cars)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15699785/LveAidJFKStdiumPhladlphiaPA__7-13-1985_Part4.zip.html

 There actually were five musical acts in this part, but I only had room for photos taken from the concert of four. The one that got left out is Kenny Loggins, since he only performed one song. Ashford and Simpson, with guest Teddy Pendergrass, is in the top left, Madonna is in the top right, Tom P. is in the bottom left, and Ric Ocasek of the Cars is in the bottom right.