# Keep the Fire > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Keep_the_Fire > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Keep_the_Fire.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_the_Fire > Source revision: 1341864077 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{For|the song|Keep the Fire (song)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Keep the Fire | type = Album | artist = [Kenny Loggins](/source/Kenny_Loggins) | cover = Keep_the_Fire.jpg | alt = Kenny Loggins, a long-haired bearded man, holding football-sized glowing sphere, standing in front of fantastic space scene above an ocean. | released = September 28, 1979 | recorded = 1979 | venue = | studio = * [Filmways/Wally Heider Recording](/source/Wally_Heider_Studios) (Hollywood, California) * Santa Barbara Sound Recording (Santa Barbara, California) * [Criteria](/source/Criteria_Studios) (Miami, Florida) | genre = [Pop rock](/source/Pop_rock) | length = 40:48 | label = [Columbia](/source/Columbia_Records) | producer = [Tom Dowd](/source/Tom_Dowd) | prev_title = [Nightwatch](/source/Nightwatch_(album)) | prev_year = 1978 | next_title = [Caddyshack: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack](/source/Caddyshack_(soundtrack)) | next_year = 1980 }} '''''Keep the Fire''''' is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter [Kenny Loggins](/source/Kenny_Loggins), released in 1979. It is perhaps best known for the hit single "[This Is It](/source/This_Is_It_(Kenny_Loggins_song))". The song was co-written by [Michael McDonald](/source/Michael_McDonald_(singer)), who also performed on the track. [Michael Jackson](/source/Michael_Jackson) sings backup vocals on the track "Who's Right, Who's Wrong". ==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) | rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r11900|first=|last=|access-date=2011-06-17}} |rev2 = ''[Christgau's Record Guide](/source/Christgau's_Record_Guide%3A_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies)'' |rev2Score = C+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies](/source/Christgau's_Record_Guide%3A_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies)|publisher=[Ticknor & Fields](/source/Ticknor_%26_Fields)|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: L|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=L&bk=70|access-date=March 1, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}} |rev3 = ''[MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide](/source/MusicHound)'' |rev3score = {{rating|2.5|5}}{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1996 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=417}} | rev4 = ''[Record Collector](/source/Record_Collector)'' | rev4Score = {{Rating|1|5}}{{cite magazine |title=Kenny Loggins-Keep the Fire|author=Pinfold, William|magazine=Record Collector |issue=405 |date=September 2012 |access-date=26 June 2020|url=https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/keep-the-fire}} | rev5 = ''[Record Mirror](/source/Record_Mirror)'' | rev5Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite magazine |title=Kenny Loggins: ''Keep The Fire'' / Jimmy Messina: ''Oasis'' |last=Sexton |first=Paul |date=16 February 1980 |magazine=[Record Mirror](/source/Record_Mirror) |page=17}} }} ''[Rolling Stone](/source/Rolling_Stone)'' described the album as "the new sound of Southern California: a sophisticated, diffuse, jazz-inflected pop rock performed by an augmented rock band in which guitar and keyboards share equal prominence" and "churning romantic atmosphere constructed around a matinee idol's voice".{{ cite magazine | title=Album reviews: Keep the Fire | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=February 7, 1980 | first=Stephen | last=Holden | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/kennyloggins/albums/album/200156/review/5946898/keep_the_fire | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630050935/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/kennyloggins/albums/album/200156/review/5946898/keep_the_fire | archive-date=June 30, 2007 | access-date=June 28, 2013 }} ''[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'' noted that, "occasionally, he stumbles into some of the good-time hokey rockin' fun that made such Loggins and Messina numbers as '[Your Mama Don't Dance](/source/Your_Mama_Don't_Dance)' so nauseating."{{cite news |last1=Niester |first1=Alan |title=Keep the Fire Kenny Loggins |work=The Globe and Mail |date=29 Dec 1979 |page=F4}} ===Film=== The award-winning short film "Keep the Fire", by Jake Rice, is a fictionalized "Behind the Album Cover" story.{{cite AV media | title=Keep the Fire | first=Jake | last=Rice | url=https://vimeo.com/51150445 | type=A/V stream | access-date=June 28, 2013 }} ==Track listing== {{track listing |extra_column=Harmony Vocals | headline = Side one |title1 = Love Has Come of Age | writer1 = [Kenny Loggins](/source/Kenny_Loggins) | length1 = 3:51 |title2 = Mr. Night | writer2 = Loggins, Richard Stekol | length2 = 3:20 | extra2 = George Hawkins, Stekol |title3 = [This Is It](/source/This_Is_It_(Kenny_Loggins_song)) | writer3 = Loggins, [Michael McDonald](/source/Michael_McDonald_(singer)) | extra3 = [Mike Hamilton](/source/Mike_Hamilton_(guitarist)), Hawkins, McDonald |length3 = 3:57 |title4 = Junkanoo Holiday (Fallin'-Flyin') | writer4 = Loggins | length4 = 4:30 |title5 = Now and Then |writer5 = Jeff Bouchard, Loggins |length5 = 3:52 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two |extra_column = Harmony vocals |title1 = Who's Right, Who's Wrong |writer1 = Loggins, [Richard Page](/source/Richard_Page_(musician)) |extra1 = [Michael Jackson](/source/Michael_Jackson), Page |length1 = 5:38 |title2 = [Keep the Fire](/source/Keep_the_Fire_(song)) |writer2 = Eva Ein, Loggins |length2 = 4:34 |title3 = Give It Half a Chance | writer3 = [Stephen Bishop](/source/Stephen_Bishop_(musician)), Loggins |extra3 = Jeff Bouchard, Hamilton, Hawkins |length3 = 4:57 |title4 = Will It Last |writer4 = Ein, Loggins |length4 = 5:50 }} == Personnel == '''Musicians and vocalists''' * Kenny Loggins – vocals, guitars, [Sennheiser Vocoder](/source/Sennheiser) (7) * Brian Mann – keyboards, [accordion](/source/accordion) solo (5) * [Max Gronenthal](/source/Max_Carl) – [ARP synthesizer](/source/ARP_synthesizer) [programming](/source/programming_(music)) * [Michael McDonald](/source/Michael_McDonald_(singer)) – acoustic piano (3), harmony vocals (3) * [Mike Hamilton](/source/Mike_Hamilton_(guitarist)) – guitars, backing vocals, harmony vocals (3, 8) * [Fred Tackett](/source/Fred_Tackett) – acoustic guitar (8, 9) * George Hawkins – bass, backing vocals, harmony vocals (2, 3, 8) * [Tris Imboden](/source/Tris_Imboden) – drums, percussion * [Milt Holland](/source/Milt_Holland) – percussion (1, 2, 4–9) * [Paulinho da Costa](/source/Paulinho_da_Costa) – percussion (3) * Jon Clarke – [tambourine](/source/tambourine), [English horn](/source/English_horn), [flute](/source/flute), [oboe](/source/oboe), [recorder](/source/Recorder_(musical_instrument)), saxophones * Vince Denham – [cabasa](/source/cabasa), saxophones, flute * [Michael Brecker](/source/Michael_Brecker) – tenor sax solo (6) * Richard Stekol – harmony vocals (2) * [Michael Jackson](/source/Michael_Jackson) – harmony vocals (6) * [Richard Page](/source/Richard_Page_(musician)) – harmony vocals (6) * Jeff Bouchard – harmony vocals (8) '''Music arrangements''' * Brian Mann – horn arrangements, string arrangements (5) * [Albhy Galuten](/source/Albhy_Galuten) – string arrangements (2, 8) * Jon Clarke – horn arrangements (2, 7) '''Production''' * Tom Dowd – producer * Steve Gersky – first engineer * Michael Carnavale – second engineer * Samii Taylor – second mix engineer * Mike Fuller – mastering at Criteria Studios * Wayne Williams – [guitar synthesizer](/source/guitar_synthesizer) technician * [Tony Lane](/source/Tony_Lane) – visual coordinator * Kenny Loggins – cover concept * Scott Thom – cover concept, cover painting * [Ed Caraeff](/source/Ed_Caraeff) – cover photography * Eva Ein Loggins – sleeve photography ==Charts== ===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable" |- !Chart (1979–80) !Peak
position |- |Australia ([Kent Music Report](/source/Kent_Music_Report)){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=179}} | style="text-align:center;"|95 |- |US [Top LPs & Tape](/source/Billboard_200) (''Billboard'') | style="text-align:center;"|16 |} ===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable" ! Chart (1980) ! Peak
position |- | US ''Billboard'' Top Albums{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} | align="center"| 16 |} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Kenny Loggins}} {{Authority control}} Category:1979 albums Category:Kenny Loggins albums Category:Albums produced by Tom Dowd Category:Columbia Records albums Category:Albums recorded at Wally Heider Studios --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Keep the Fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_the_Fire) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_the_Fire?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.