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Show Dave Loggins At Cest Bon i I 5C " Y , 1 1 , . : was an advantage for him when it came time to find a label. CBS executive Dan Loggins saw Dave perform after drawing initial interest from the last name the two shared. He soon signed him with the Epic label where the t single, "Please Come To Boston" and his album "Apprentice (In A Musical Workshop)" were released. re-leased. Dave has found his name to be a disadvantage sometimes when people confuse him with Kenny Loggins, half of the Loggins and Messina pop duo and writer of the Anne Murray hits "Danny's Song" and "Love Song." When the two met recently, they discovered they were distant relatives but many still confuse the two, thinking they are the same individuals despite each achieving creative success on his own. Dave Loggins will appear t the Cest Bon Entertainment Lounge November 26 and 27. Tickets are available at Mt. Fishery; and in Salt Lake, at Tape Head Co., Odyssey Records, and Rasberry Records. Although "Please Come To Boston" made many people aware of Dave Loggins for the first time, he has been around a long time and he's made that time count. David first proved his creative sensitivity with Three Dog Night. Their interpretation of his "Pieces of April" initiated him to the top of the charts. Since then, Dave has found that height with "Please Come To Boston" and again with his first Epic album, "Apprentice (In A Musical Musi-cal Workshop)." Loggins was born in Bristol, Tenn. the northeast corner of the state just across the border from Virginia. His earliest recollections recol-lections are of dancing and singing as his father played the fiddle back in his hometown. Music did not become the motivating force in Dave's life until late in his teens. At nineteen he began performing locally, doing other people's material. However, "crowd pleasing" was not quite enough, and though he had never written a song, he wanted others to hear him sing his own songs. Loggins claims the most memorable day of his life was when he was "just picking on my : guitar and this melody came out. I played around with it and soon there were words to go with it. Suddenly I had a song!" After this musical awakening, Dave decided to make music his life. Armed with five original tunes, he left Tennessee for New York to pursue a publishing deal. Soon he was signed as a writer to MCA Music and from there landed a recording contract with Vanguard. Van-guard. In just one short year after he had penned his first original tune, his first album of all original compositions was released. Dave had played the New York club circuit and had made appearances with Linda Ronstadt and Helen Reddy, among others. He left Vanguard, and then began playing clubs. He drifted back towards his home state and finally to Nashville, where he settled into a more easy-going lifestyle; writing songs and beginning to record again . this time for Epic. Loggins found that his name Dave Loggins |