Please Come To Nashville (for my funeral): RIP Dave Loggins

[maumann]

Didn't see it posted anywhere. Died in Nashville at 76.

Nominated for a Grammy for "Please Come To Boston." Better known perhaps around here for the Masters theme music used by CBS.

Also wrote "Pieces of April" for Three Dog Night. Had a No. 1 hit duet with Anne Murray.

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/dave-loggins-obituary-1235729601/

 

[DanOregon]

Rambling boy can finally settle down. I still don't get why the chick in the song didn't want to go to Boston, Denver or an oceanfront house in LA - over Tennessee? Really?

 

[Chef2]

In the running for thread title of the year.

 

[garrow]

Clashic tune, "Please Come to Boston" is. RIP.

 

[dixiehack]

Rambling boy can finally settle down. I still don't get why the chick in the song didn't want to go to Boston, Denver or an oceanfront house in LA - over Tennessee? Really?

And not just Tennessee. Presumably Loggins meant his hometown of Mountain City, as far back in the hills as you can get in the very northeast corner of the state.

 

[da man]

Rambling boy can finally settle down. I still don't get why the chick in the song didn't want to go to Boston, Denver or an oceanfront house in LA - over Tennessee? Really?

They weren't her kind of towns.

 

[playthrough]

Golf Digest wrote that the Masters song "is reportedly the longest running sports theme in television history."

Gotta think "Heavy Action," the Monday Night Football theme, has that beat.

 

[hondo]

Golf Digest wrote that the Masters song "is reportedly the longest running sports theme in television history."

Gotta think "Heavy Action," the Monday Night Football theme, has that beat.

Has the Masters theme song been heard more than any of his other songs -- combined?

 

[dixiehack]

Golf Digest wrote that the Masters song "is reportedly the longest running sports theme in television history."

Gotta think "Heavy Action," the Monday Night Football theme, has that beat.

How much time did MNF spend with Hank Jr. belting out his own theme song? Might explain it.

 

[Twirling Time]

Golf Digest wrote that the Masters song "is reportedly the longest running sports theme in television history."

Gotta think "Heavy Action," the Monday Night Football theme, has that beat.

Gotta think the Olympic theme has to be the longest one of them all considering the Modern Olympics predate Dave Loggins by, oh, 51 years.

 

[playthrough]

Gotta think the Olympic theme has to be the longest one of them all considering the Modern Olympics predate Dave Loggins by, oh, 51 years.

Yep, ABC started broadcasting the Olympic theme in 1968. "Heavy Action" first used for MNF in 1976. Didn't think I'd go down this rabbit hole tonight but it beats CNN.

How much time did MNF spend with Hank Jr. belting out his own theme song? Might explain it.

That's a good point, though I think the MNF theme was still used then, maybe as commercial buffers?

 

[Twirling Time]

According to this story, the Hank Jr. MNF theme debuted in 1989. I was out of the country then and don't remember it, but that seems awfully early.

https://www.ajc.com/news/espn-drops...ht-football-intro/CABFSP7ZCVDWXNYPDHKCCETTOY/