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Dave Loggins, the singer-songwriter behind the 1974 smash “Please Come to Boston” and the theme for the Masters golf tournament, has died. ... Yet his best-known song among sports fans is ...
The same year, CBS began using the song at the Masters Golf Tournament as the theme song for its coverage each year. [3] In 1982, David Lasley released a cover version of Loggins’ “If I Had My Wish Tonight”, originally released by Loggins in 1979. [4] In 1995, Loggins was inducted to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. [5]
The three verses of the song are each a plea from the narrator to a woman whom he hopes will join him in, respectively, Boston, Denver, and Los Angeles, with each verse concluding: "She said, 'No – boy would you come home to me'"; the woman's sentiment is elaborated on in the chorus which concludes with the line: "I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee".
Dave Loggins, a singer-songwriter who had a memorable chart-topper with “Please Come to Boston” in 1974, died Wednesday at Alive Hospice in Nashville. He was 76; no cause of death was given.
The song's writer was inspired by a trip to the Masters, and was friends with a CBS executive. For decades, the song has been used on broadcasts.
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Pages in category "Songs written by Dave Loggins" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
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