I was going on a date that night, and I mentioned to my girlfriend, 'I'm kinda bummed tonight because I thought I had my first song recorded, and it's not gonna happen. We've been inundated with phone calls from Disney lawyers for the last few weeks, telling us that we're not allowed to record a song about Winnie the Pooh.' He says, 'Kenny, I'm really sorry, but we won't be able to record that song. About a month later, I got a phone call from John McEuen, who at the time seemed to be the leader of the Dirt Band. I was really excited, and I'd never had a song recorded.

They said, 'We're looking for songs for our album. They were an up-and-coming act, and they loved that song. At this one party that I went to, there were a couple of guys from a band called the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

The parties kept me writing, so that I'd have something new to play at the next party. Different songwriters would show up at parties, and we'd all take turns showing whatever we'd written that week. In those days, as a songwriter, you'd go around to different parties, much like what's happening here in Nashville where you have writers in the round. I wrote this song about Winnie the Pooh, but I was 17, and I didn't really have any awareness that I wasn't allowed to write a song about Winnie the Pooh, and that there were people who owned that copyright. I think there's an incredible story behind how the song got recorded, and copyright issues. I didn't really think it through like that.

Some part of me knew that I was leaving my childhood behind. I felt like that was akin to what I was going through in high school. The last chapter is where Christopher Robin is leaving the Hundred Acre Wood, and he's telling everybody goodbye. Well, (I was) going on graduation in high school, and for some reason, I was thinking about that last chapter in 'The House at Pooh Corner.' It was the first book I ever read. You write it when you're 17 years old? Take me back to that idea and the writing of the song. Kenny Loggins: Well, I didn't consider it craftsmanship. Watch Video: Story Behind the Song: 'House at Pooh Corner'īart Herbison: I find this incredible that you had, first of all, that level of craftsmanship as a senior in high school.

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