Footloose
Saturday 9: Footloose (1984)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune. Hear it here.
1) In this week's song, Kenny Loggins encourages everyone to lose their blues by dancing. What reliably shakes you out of a funk?Ive been in a funk for so long I forgot. I forgot what not being in a funk feels like!!
2) To cut footloose, he has to kick off his "Sunday shoes." What's on your feet as you answer these 9 questions? I actually came downstairs in my bare feet this morning!!
3) This is the title song of the popular 1984 movie of the same name. It's so well-identified with the film that the AFI named it #96 of the top 100 movie songs of the last 100 years. Have you seen Footloose? No, it wasn't on my radar!
4) The title of his 2022 memoir, Still Alright, was inspired by "I'm Alright," the song he wrote for the raucous golf comedy, Caddyshack. Do you play golf? (Yes, putt-putt miniature golf counts!) Do you watch it on TV?I took golf in college and used to really enjoy playing with my husband and daughter. But now I enjoy miniature golf with my grands!
5) Thinking of movies, Kenny says watching Yankee Doodle Dandy when he was just 7 years old made him think performing looked like fun and says, "I knew deep inside this is something I could do." Do you recall when you set off on your chosen career? In the fourth grade I studied history for the first time and realized then I wanted to be a history teacher ; I was assigned history my first year of teaching!
5) Kenny grew up in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle and 84 miles from the Canadian border. Have you ever visited Canada? If yes, where did you go? No, but Id love to go !!!
6) In 1977 Kenny struck up a friendship with Stevie Nicks, who was a source of encouragement and would sing with him on one of his biggest hits, "Whenever I Call You Friend." Tell us about when you met one of your best friends.My first best friend I met in first grade. Vicky lived in the next street over and we walked to school together. We lost touch in middle school, but found each other again at the 25th reunion.. but it took another 25 years to really get together again and now we see each other every season.. We were just at her home for a cookout last week!
7) In 1984, when this song was a hit, Angela Lansbury premiered in Murder, She Wrote, a show still seen in reruns today. Were/are you a fan? Not really.
9) Random question -- Think of your last professionally prepared meal. Did you dine in, carry out, or have it delivered? We dined out for breakfast and it was delicious! the Famous Toastery. Loved the ambience and the food was wonderful!!!
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I think you are literally the first person over the age of 50 that does not know what happened to Michael Jackson during the filming of his pepsi commercial!!
ReplyDeleteI love mini golf and we go often in the summer months. Reminds me that I need to find a place near Boston to go as we will be there the last week of June.
I love being barefoot!! We don't wear shoes in my home so....it's either socks, slippers or this time of year...bare feet!!!