:All Join In
{{Infobox album
| name = All Join In
| type = Studio album
| artist = Kenny Loggins
| cover = All Join In.jpeg
| alt =
| released = July 21, 2009
| recorded = 2009
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Soft rock, children's music
| length =
| label = Walt Disney
| producer =
| prev_title = How About Now
| prev_year = 2007
| next_title =
| next_year =
| misc =
{{Singles
| name =
| type = studio
| single1 = Two of Us
| single1date = 2009 (Internet only)
}}
}}
All Join In is the fourteenth studio and third children's (and most recent) album by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. It was also his only album on Walt Disney Records, released on July 21, 2009. It was Loggins' first children's album since More Songs from Pooh Corner.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61484471/intelligencer-journallancaster-new-era/|title=Kenny Loggins lightens up for latest album|pages=62|work=Lancaster New Era|date=July 17, 2009|accessdate=October 28, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://globegazette.com/news/local/loggins-with-kids-messina-all-join-in/article_888a0330-07d8-5b05-9050-a8f96e0299de.html|last=Nicklay|first=Deb|title=Loggins: With kids, Messina – 'All Join In'|website=Globe Gazette|date=August 31, 2009|accessdate=October 16, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20090428006231/en/Kenny-Loggins%E2%80%99-New-Disney-Pearl-Album-Join|title=Loggins: With kids, Messina – 'All Join In'|website=Business Wire|date=April 28, 2009|accessdate=October 16, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://lancasteronline.com/features/entertainment/kenny-loggins-keeps-the-family-in-mind/article_1f2d399d-4620-5076-9ee6-52b1264c9546.html|last=Alexander|first=Larry|title=Kenny Loggins keeps the family in mind|website=Lancaster Online|date=July 17, 2009|accessdate=October 16, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://qconline.com/life/kenny-loggins-treasures-family-in-long-career/article_6fb3d931-4227-52f5-a33d-6612d6677800.html|last=Turner|first=Jonathan|title=Kenny Loggins treasures family in long career|website=Dispatch Argus|date=August 5, 2009|accessdate=October 16, 2020}}{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61484267/the-dispatch/|title=Kenny Loggins cuts footloose, peddles music on QVC|pages=62|work=Dispatch Argus|date=June 21, 2009|accessdate=October 28, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/music/2011/06/kenny_loggins_discusses_soundt.html|last=Schoof|first=Dustin|title=Kenny Loggins discusses soundtracks, children's book and return to roots|website=Express Times|date=June 17, 2011|accessdate=October 16, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.com/2009/10/01/loggins-messina-stage-sit-in/|last=Comingore|first=Aly|title=Loggins & Messina Stage a Sit In|website=Santa Barbara Independent|date=October 1, 2009|accessdate=October 16, 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://musingsfromme.com/review-kenny-loggins/|last=Berry|first=Jill|title=Review: Kenny Loggins "All Join In"|website=Musings From Me|date=October 21, 2009|accessdate=October 16, 2020}}
Loggins was asked to produce the album by the president of Walt Disney Records, David Agnew, who played Loggins' Pooh Corner records to his children. Loggins recalled, "He really got what I was trying to do, which was to make music that the parents would love as much as the children. So he called me and said 'I really want you to do it again, but this time I want it to be up-tempo.'" Loggins was nervous that the record would be "too kiddy", but said, "By picking really cool material that I loved, and doing it in a way that the production values were more adult, but still maintaining a light-hearted quality that the kids would love, it works."{{cite news |last1=Alexander |first1=Larry |title=Kenny Loggins lightens up for latest album |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61484471/intelligencer-journallancaster-new-era/ |accessdate=28 October 2020 |work=Intelligencer Journal |date=July 17, 2009}}
As part of the marketing push for the album, Loggins performed live on the QVC shopping channel.{{cite news |last1=Hiltbrand |first1=David |title=Kenny Loggins cuts footloose, peddles music on QVC |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61484267/the-dispatch/ |accessdate=28 October 2020 |agency=McClatchy Newspapers |date=June 21, 2009}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline =
| title1 = Underneath the Same Sky
| writer1 = {{hlist|Nicole Dubuc|Andy Sturmer}}
| length1 = 3:25
| title2 = All Together Now
| writer2 = Lennon-McCartney
| length2 = 2:19
| title3 = You've Got a Friend in Me
| writer3 = Randy Newman
| length3 = 2:34
| title4 = Two of Us
| note4 = featuring Jim Messina
| writer4 = Lennon-McCartney
| length4 = 4:27
| title5 = Come Go With Me
| writer5 = Quick
| length5 = 2:58
| title6 = There Is a Mountain
| note6 = featuring Hana Loggins
| writer6 = Donovan
| length6 = 4:42
| title7 = The Puppy Song
| note7 = featuring Bella Loggins
| writer7 = Nilsson
| length7 = 3:31
| title8 = You Can All Join In
| writer8 = Dave Mason
| length8 = 3:33
| title9 = Gandhi/Buddha
| writer9 = Cheryl Wheeler
| length9 = 4:11
| title10 = Long Tailed Cat
| writer10 = Kenny Loggins
| length10 = 3:48
| title11 = Lollipop
| writer11 = Mika
| length11 = 3:20
| title12 = Moose 'n Me
| writer12 = {{hlist|Bernard|Loggins}}
| length12 = 4:17
| title13 = 1234
| note13 = featuring Hana Loggins
| writer13 = {{hlist|Feist|Sally Seltmann}}
| length13 = 3:40
}}
References
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External links
- {{AllMusic|id=mw0000819983|title=All Join In}}
{{Kenny Loggins}}
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