A chart-topping collaboration between Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins became a song that held a deeply personal meaning. The song came to embody the resilience and determination of a loved one facing what seemed an insurmountable struggle.
Loggins told American Songwriter, “The best musical statements are usually the ones that aren’t calculated and the ones that come out in the largest chunks. Michael McDonald and I must have written ‘This Is It’ four times."
He continued, "The first three times it was a love song, ‘Baby I this, baby I that…,’ and we both said, ‘Eh! This is boring. This song is not working as a love song.’”
While listening to his father speak negatively of his health, Loggins told him, “You’ve got some say over how this goes, ya know?” This is it, Dad. Make a choice!” He later met McDonald to continue their songwriting session.
Per Songfacts, Loggins' father lived four more years after that medical emergency. He would go on to see the song he inspired win a Grammy in 1981 for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. "This Is It" was released in October 1979 and peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 by February 1980.
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