This Is It (Kenny Loggins song)

"This Is It"
Single by Kenny Loggins
from the album Keep the Fire
B-side "Will It Last"
Released November 1979
Format 7" single
Genre Soft rock[1]
Length 3:35
Label Columbia
Writer(s) Kenny Loggins
Michael McDonald
Producer(s) Tom Dowd
Kenny Loggins singles chronology
"Easy Driver"
(1979)		 "This Is It"
(1979)		 "Keep the Fire"
(1980)

"This Is It" is a song by American musician Kenny Loggins. It was released in 1979 as the lead single from his 1979 album Keep the Fire. It reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 17 on the Adult Contemporary chart. "This Is It" was also successful on the Hot Soul Singles chart, reaching number 19, it was one of two entries on this chart.[2]

The song features additional vocals by Michael McDonald, who co-wrote the song with Loggins. The song won a Grammy Award in 1981 for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.

Background and writing

At one point in the song's evolution, its melody was underway, but the lyrics were incomplete. Loggins moved it forward after a visit to his ailing father, who had undergone a series of surgeries for vascular problems stemming from small strokes and was discouraged at the prospect of another. His perspective on the lyrics then changed: "'I've got it,' I announced to Michael, it's not a love song. It's a life song."[3]

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1979-80) Peak
position
Australia 85
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM) 16
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[4] 9
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[5] 26
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[6] 35
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 11
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks[7] 17
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles 19
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[8] 8

Year-end charts

Chart (1980) Rank
Canada [9] 54
U.S. Billboard [10] 28
U.S. Cash Box [11] 58

NBC used the song as theme music for its coverage of the NCAA men's basketball tournament in 1980 and 1981.[12]

The song was sampled for Nas' song, "We Will Survive" from his third studio album, I Am...

It appears in the 2013 film Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.

It appears on "America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions" episode: the 1981 49ers on NFL Network in 2007.

Josh Kaufman, a contestant sang the song on "The Voice"

WPVI-TV (Philadelphia) used this song as the theme for the WPVI original program of the same name

References

  1. ↑ "VH1's 40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs". Stereogum. SpinMedia. May 31, 2007. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 358.
  3. ↑ "September 1999 (This Is It)". kennyloggins.com. Archived from the original on May 6, 2006. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  5. ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Kenny Loggins search results" (in Dutch) Dutch Top 40.
  6. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Kenny Loggins – This Is It". Top 40 Singles.
  7. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 148.
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  10. ↑ Billboard December 20, 1980: TIA-10
  11. ↑
  12. ↑ "Louisville vs UCLA 1980 NCAA Championship (FULL GAME)". YouTube. 2013-04-05. Retrieved 2016-10-15.


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