Kenny Loggins / Nightwatch (US, Columbia, JC 35387) <July 12, 1978>

Kenny Loggins / Nightwatch (US, Columbia, JC 35387) <July 12, 1978>
(SIDE 1) AL 35387-1F
(SIDE 2) BL 35387-1F

1972年にロギンス＆メッシーナとしてデビューしたケニー・ロギンスの、ソロ転向後2作目にあたる作品。

　"What A Fool Believes"がマイケル・マクドナルドとの共作で、本作品にも収録されていたとは知らなかったので、初めて聴いたときは仰天しました。ちなみにこの曲、ケニー・ロギンスのヴァージョンは78年7月にアルバムの地味な位置で発表され、マイケル・マクドナルドはドゥービー・ブラザーズのアルバム"Minute by Minute"のなかで1978年12月に発表。ドゥービー・ブラザーズの方がバカ売れし、最終的にこの曲はグラミー"Song of the Year"を獲得しました。これは二人一緒に表彰されたのか、それともドゥービー・ブラザーズとして受賞したのか・・・？？知りませんが、もし後者だったとすれば、悔しかったでしょうなぁ。

"Nightwatch" is the second solo album from Kenny Loggins, released in 1978. The album is Loggins' highest charting album on the Billboard 200 to date, reaching number 7.

It features the hit single "Whenever I Call You Friend" featuring Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks (co-written with Melissa Manchester), which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as the first recorded version of the Doobie Brothers classic "What a Fool Believes," which Loggins co-wrote with the Doobies' Michael McDonald.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1gench3J3g

"What A Fool Believes"

He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don't see
Tryin' hard to recreate
What had yet to be created once in her life
She musters a smile
For his nostalgic tale
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realized
It never really was
She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As she rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go
But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him ...
Somewhere back in her long ago
Where he can still believe
There's a place in her life
Someday, somewhere, she will return
She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As she rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go
But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
There's nothing at all
But what a fool believes he sees ...