Nightwatch (Kenny Loggins album)

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Infobox Album |
Name = Nightwatch
Type = Album
Artist = Kenny Loggins


Released = June 1978
Recorded = ?
Genre = Rock, Soft rock
Length = 41:20
Label = Columbia
Producer = Bob James
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:omzyxdybjoly~T00 link]
*"Rolling Stone" (mixed) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/kennyloggins/albums/album/136789/review/5945219/nightwatch link]
Last album = "Celebrate Me Home"
(1977)
This album = "Nightwatch"
(1978)
Next album = "Keep the Fire"
(1979)

"Nightwatch" is the second solo album from Kenny Loggins, released in 1978 (see 1978 in music). The album is Loggins' highest charting album on the Billboard 200 to date, reaching number 7.It features the hit single "Whenever I Call You Friend" featuring Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks (co- written with Melissa Manchester), which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as the firstrecorded version of the Doobie Brothers classic "What a Fool Believes".

Most of the artists on this album represent Loggins' original band from 1977 to 1980.

Track listing

;Side One
# "Night Watch" − 7:49 (Loggins, Eva Ein, M. Groenenthal)
# "Easy Driver" − 3:33
# "Down 'N' Dirty" − 4:42 (Loggins, B. Mann)
# "Down in the Boondocks" − 4:20 (Joe South)

;Side Two
# "Whenever I Call You 'Friend'" − 3:57 (Loggins, Stevie Nicks)
# "Wait a Little While" − 3:55 (Loggins, Eva Ein)
# "What a Fool Believes" − 3:37 (Loggins, Michael McDonald)
# "Somebody Knows" − 3:34
# "Angelique" − 5:53

Personnel

* Kenny Loggins listed as "Ken Loggins" - vocals and guitar
* Michael Hamliton - guitar
* George Hawkins - bass, vocals
* Brian Mann - keyboards
* Tris Imboden - drums
* Jon Clarke - woodwinds, saxophone
* Vince Denham - woodwinds, saxophone
* Bob James - backing vocals