| "This Is It" | ||||
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| Single by Kenny Loggins | ||||
| from the album Keep the Fire | ||||
| B-side | "Will It Last" | |||
| Released | October 1979 | |||
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| Length | 3:36 (single version) 3:57 (album version) | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Tom Dowd | |||
| Kenny Loggins singles chronology | ||||
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"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.[3]
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 Male Pop Vocal Performance.
NBC Sports used the song as theme music for its coverage of the NCAA men's basketball tournament in 1980 and 1981.
WPVI-TV in Philadelphia had a local weekend program of the same name and had the song as its theme throughout the 1980s.
- ^ "VH1's 40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs". Stereogum. SpinMedia. May 31, 2007. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
- ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (July 17, 2000). "The Six Million Dollar Tan: West Coast Pop". Night Moves - Pop Music in the Late 70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-312-19821-3.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 358.