Dave Loggins, the national singer-songwriter who wrote the Masters golfing match theme music Augusta and the 1974 crash single with Monitor Please Come to Boston, has died at the age of 76.
The music artist died on Wednesday at Alive Hospice in Nashville, Tennessee, according to The Tennessean.
Loggins has the honor of being the ‘single unsigned artist’ to receive a CMA Award, in line with Hole. He received the above honor in 1986 for the duet No Person Loves Me Like You Do with Anne Murray.
The music artist was born in Shady Valley, Tennessee and grew up in Bristol, Tennessee after relocating to Nashville to pursue a career in music.
Described by Hole as one of Track Town’s ‘most prolific songwriters’, Loggins wrote songs for many well-known artists in the country genre for over 50 years and even longer.
Country singer Dave Loggins, who wrote the Masters golfing match theme music Augusta and had a solo accident with 1974’s Monitor Please Come to Boston, has died at the age of 76. Pictured on stage in 1970
Artists for whom he wrote songs included Reba McEntire, Smokey Robinson, Wynonna Judd, Joan Baez, Lee Greenwood, Alabama and 3 Canine Evening; In addition to late stars like Johnny Money, Kenny Rogers, Toby Keith and Ray Charles.
Loggins was nominated for four Grammys over the course of three years in her career.
She was nominated for Best Country Music in 1992 for ‘She’s His Best Want’; for Best Possible Country Music for 40 Date Days (For a Livin’) in 1985; 1984 for Best National Performance by a Duo or Team with Vocal for ‘No Person Loves Me Like You Do’; and in 1974 for best possible pop vocal efficiency, for “Please Come to Boston for the Mail.”
In 1995, Dave Loggins was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Corridor of Status.
He told the institute that he considered the best moments of his career to be traveling to England with the Everly Brothers in the early ’70s, meeting John Lennon at the Grammys in ’75, and writing six major records and being a failed songwriter at the time. saw. And in the times to come the seventh moment of victory will come.
Loggins wrote his musical contribution to the golf match at Augusta in 1981, and it began to be performed on CBS during the annual match in 1982, according to the AP.
He spoke with the AP in 2019 about his composition of the musical, saying he was creatively inspired to write about the future of golfing at Augusta National, the famous course in Georgia.
‘I stopped for a while, looked at the pine trees and the air there, which was making me sick, was completely different in some ways,’ Loggins said. ‘Spiritually it was another one. That passage was once just a piece of artwork.
Some of the artists he wrote songs for included Reba McEntire, Smokey Robinson, Wynonna Judd, Joan Baez, Lee Greenwood, Alabama and 3 Canine Evening; In addition to late stars like Johnny Money, Kenny Rogers, Toby Keith and Ray Charles
Loggins wrote his musical contribution to the golf match at Augusta in 1981, and it began to be performed on CBS during the annual match in 1982.
Loggins has written songs for a variety of well-known artists in the country genre for over 50 years and even longer
‘I looked at some dogwoods and, man, I just started writing music in my head, which is what I do when I’m influenced. I had the first poem even before I left the road.
According to the AP, Dave Loggins was the cousin of Kenny Loggins, known for hits like Footloose, Threat Zone and I’m Alright.
Many Dave Loggins friends and enthusiasts took to X/Twitter on Thursday to remember the late singer-songwriter.
Lee Greenwood called Loggins ‘a brilliant singer, guitarist and an essayist’ who served as an inspirational presence in his career.
‘It was his song that attracted me to Nashville, Tennessee in 1979,’ Greenwood said. ‘Dave was from Bristol, TN, but he told the world who he was through the songs he wrote and sang.
‘We may leave his amazing talent, but his songs will live on forever. We send our prayers for recovery and condolences to the Loggins nation. I’m the guy from Tennessee’s No. 1 fan.
ESPN reporter Ed Werder noted, ‘Please come to Boston. A wonderful musical by Dave Loggins, who has given up the ghost.’
Many of Dave Loggins’ friends and fans took to X/Twitter on Thursday to remember the late singer-songwriter, including Lee Greenwood.
Journalist Alison Bonaguro posted a YouTube clip of Please Come to Boston, writing, ‘@KennyChesney did this Dave Loggins musical that I loved. However, there’s nothing quite like the OG. RIP, Dave.’
Loggins cannot be cremated at his personal request, The Tennessean reports. Instead of Plant Life, donations can also be made to the nonprofit Alive Hospice in the singer’s name, Loggins Nation said.
The singer-songwriter is survived by his sons Quinn Loggins, Kyle Loggins and Dylan Loggins, and grandson Braxton Loggins.
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