Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 10/20/2016 at 16:32 • Filed to: musiclopnik

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Commence everybody who watches Archer losing their minds.

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/20/2016 at 16:35

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I mean... I had to post this. It’s a law.

SWITAWI > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/20/2016 at 16:57

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The funniest part is that Loggins biggest hit was practically by accident.

From Wikipedia...

“Film producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson , along with music supervisor Michael Dilbeck, had over 300 songs to employ on Top Gun . Testing compositions against the dailies of the opening scenes at the aircraft carrier, nothing satisfied them and Bruckheimer asked soundtrack producer Giorgio Moroder to write something. With the help of songwriter Tom Whitlock , he composed “Danger Zone”, and had Joe Pizzulo record a demo. With the approval of the producers, soundtrack distributor Columbia Records requested Moroder to have “Danger Zone” performed by an artist signed by the label. [1]

The band Toto was originally intended to perform the track, but legal conflicts between the producers of Top Gun and the band’s lawyers prevented this. [2]

Bryan Adams was approached to allow his song “Only the Strong Survive” on the soundtrack and perform “Danger Zone”, but Adams refused any involvement, feeling that the film glorified war and he did not want any of his work linked to it.

REO Speedwagon were also approached to perform “Danger Zone”, but the group declined due to not being allowed to contribute any of their own compositions to the soundtrack.

Corey Hart was also approached to perform “Danger Zone,” but he declined, preferring to write and perform his own compositions. [3]

Eventually, the film producers agreed that “Danger Zone” would be recorded and performed by Kenny Loggins . [2] Whitlock went to Loggins’ Encino home, and once shown the lyrics the singer added his own improvisations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Zone_(song)

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/20/2016 at 17:08

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Are we entering a zone of danger?

E90M3 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/20/2016 at 17:59

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I was in a hotel in Stuttgart having breakfast, and they were playing American music, for some reason this song was included in the mix.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > E90M3 10/20/2016 at 18:00

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Well, I mean, if they like Hasselhoff and the Scorpions, liking this isn’t a huge surprise.

StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8 > crowmolly 10/21/2016 at 09:08

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Was going to post this if it was not already. Thank you.