Song:Please Come To Boston
Album:Romancing the 70s: Lovin' You
The 1974 top five hit Please Come To Boston was the only big hit for singer songwriter Dave Loggins. He has gone on to have plenty of success in Nashville as a songwriter. He was born Nov. 10, 1947 in Mountain City, TN. Kenny Loggins is his cousin. He moved to Nashville in 1970 and that's where he met producer Jerry Crutchfield. Loggins released the 1972 album Personal Belongings on Vanguard Records with Crutchfield producing with Nashville session musicians. The album went nowhere but his song Pieces of April was a top 20 hit for Three Dog Night. Epic Records exec Don Ellis liked what he heard from Loggins. The album Apprentice (In A Musical Workshop) was released in 1974. Please Come To Boston reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Loggins produced most of the album except Please Come To Boston which was produced by Crutchfield. Loggins says the song is a recap of his visits to several cities. The romance is fictional. He says the song wrote itself in ten minutes. One of his other songs charted so technically he isn't a one hit wonder. You can get Please Come To Boston on this 2CD Time Life various artist budget comp. Loggins recorded four albums for Epic. He was unable to repeat the success of Please Come To Boston. His only other chart success as a performer was the 1984 #1 country hit Nobody Loves Me Like You Do with Anne Murray. He was very successful as a songwriter in Nashville. He had a total of 14 #1 country singles spanning from 1984 to 1992. The biggest of those hits was the 1984 Kenny Rogers single Morning Desire. He also wrote the song Augusta that is used in the Masters Golf Tournament broadcast. Loggins was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1995. Here's Dave Loggins performing Please Come To Boston on The Midnight Special 1974.
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