"David Allen Loggins, Grammy nominated Hall of Fame singer/songwriter best known for "Please Come To Boston," died on July 10th, 2024, at Alive Hospice in Nashville, TN. He was 76 years old.

Loggins, born in Shady Valley, TN, started life as a small town boy in Bristol, TN, and later moved to Nashville to become one of our most prolific songwriters. Loggins crafted five decades worth of hit songs for a long list of artists, such as Three Dog Night, Joan Baez Don Williams, Johnny Cash, Toby Keith, Wynonna Judd, Alabama, Lee Greenwood, Smokey Robinson, Ray Charles, Reba McEntire, Tanya Tucker, Restless Heart, Kenny Rogers, and Willie Nelson, to name a few. Dave has had an amazingly successful career in music.

Loggins holds the record for being the only unsigned artist to ever win a CMA award for his performance with Anne Murray in 1986 for their duet, "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do." Dave also penned the song "Augusta," which is the longest running sports theme in history, for the Augusta Masters Golf Tournament."

On a personal note.... Traveling to TX today and got the sad news that Dave Loggins passed. My first staff writer position was at MCA Music in 1985, where Dave was in the middle of an amazing hot streak as a writer. We got to be friends, and he shared a lot of songwriting wisdom with me - he didn't believe in perfect rhymes, only vowel sounds - Sometimes the rhyme would be in the middle of the word rather than at the end - and he would often make the melody fit the lyric rather than the other way around. It was a complete mind blowing concept to me and it profoundly affected my own writing ever since.

When we first met, he asked where I was from, and when I answered "a small town in Texas", he immediately nicknamed me Small. I always called him "King" and it was the only way we ever addressed each other - "How's it going Small?" -"Great, King, how are you?"

Now in reflecting, I realize how incredibly accurate those monikers were. I, in fact, stood very small in the shadow of his immense genius and talent. And he truly was songwriting royalty.

Thanks, King - you were one of the giants of our profession. Thanks for all the laughs and conversations, and for helping a kid from Texas try to figure it all out. RIP to a true legend.
Your friend,
Small

He wrote some great stuff with Jimmy Buffett. Damn. He was a good writer.

Kenny Loggins' second cousin, though they apparently didn't meet until later in life, when both were successful in the music business.

"Please Come to Boston" is a powerhouse ballad -- perfect representation of the '70s, where different styles of music all blended into the pop category.

Wade Bowen does an excellent cover of Please Come to Boston