To be an 80s teenager when Nobody's Fool was out in Top 40 radio... Listening to it on FM radio during the summer with car windows rolled down... That sense of freedom... Today's kids can't even...
@Nigel Corney not really. "Almost Unreal" was one of Roxette's biggest hits, but it first appeared in the Super Mario Bros. movie. Smashing Pumpkins' "The End is the Beginning is the End" was written for Batman & Robin!
@Nigel Corney as I understand it, "Almost Unreal" was originally written for the film Hocus Pocus, but Disney decided to pass on it. So instead it just bounced around until it was picked up for SMB. Do you watch Minty Comedic Arts? He usually has trivia like that, about songs getting shuffled around by studios
This is a song that 80s radio stations need to bring back to the airwaves. They are stuck on a 50 song loop of the same old hits - lots of Prince, Huey Lewis, Journey, Bon Jovi, etc. Kenny Loggins gets attention on today's retro radio, but is limited to just Footloose and Danger Zone. Nobody's Fool was enormously popular on the radio when it was released in 1988, but many younger millennials and Gen Zers have never heard this.
Music...they still make it ??? All i ever see is porn music video clips, uzi's, supercars and bling... same couple of dozen tv add jingles and nursery rhymes that TODDLERS i could unders trand liking... But music ??. No sorry...think it went extinct
Was at a car dealership getting my car fixed and this song came in through the speakers. it literally pumped me up and I downloaded it and had it playing over and over again. It seems the 80s had the best, positive music!! Better than this crap for today. I bet people where more easy going then compared to today,
I did too! I got a hug from him on my 32nd birthday. I wanted to marry him since I was 8 years old. Alas, things didn’t work out for me an Kenny though. I ended up marrying the dude that took me to that concert.
I almost forgot about this song until I heard it on Sirius Xm 80's on 8. Wow, brought back such great memories from the summer of 88. So glad I grew up in the 80's and the music that went along with it. Kenny had so many good songs in the 80's. Music from that Era will love on forever. I miss those days.....Fun times for sure.
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I also don't remember this song but I really miss the 80's. The movies, even the crappy ones, had a certain magic about them for us, little kids, back then.
Spent years looking for this song! One of those songs from my youth that I "forgot about". Twice in the years since I heard bits of it playing in the background somewhere. It's been an enigma, like the itch you can't quite scratch for 30 years. DANCING AND FIST PUMPING ALL BY MYSELF!!! What a relief and ear candy... What the hell happened to the world since the innocence of this time?
Born in December of 1979. For those of us that grew up in the 80's, we are so incredibly fortunate!! Definitely the best time to have lived as a kid. Best cartoons, best music, cheesy but great movies, and penny-candy; literally candy for a penny -- usually at corner stores!!!!! Remember that??
Yes, I just watched the matchstick girl. 1970. Tried to sell 4 a penny. Come to find out, Jesus and the angels, her Father in heaven..were with her the whole time, every step of the way. Wow, it's not a sad story after all.
You were born a little too late, it was better if you grew up in the early 70s, then you got the whole 80s and 90s experience, even a tiny bit of the 70s which was another great decade if you were a kid, Star Wars.
Heard a small clip of this son in a Family Guy episode and it triggered a memory of this song which I’ve not heard in probably 30 years and totally forgot existed. I had to come find it because it’s a great song and is about as 80’s as it gets in both sound and looks. Kenny was the king in the 80’s.
Actually, this is probably the only movie Kenny was involved in that could be classified that way. The first Caddyshack, Footloose and Top Gun were all classics.
This song and movie were some of the last good memories I had from the 80s. I watched it with my brother right before he left for college. Watching it today, the movie has a nice ensemble of stars but had a nonsense plot. The song still takes me back to that 80s magic.
Holy shit I have been looking for this song for so long. I was born in 1997 and my mom and step dad used to have the album and this was one of my favorite songs! So glad I found it lol. But man music is definitely different now... So glad my parents introduced me to good music. Here I am 23 and still love this kind of music!
I wish more women in their early to mid 20's had old souls. A lot of 20 something women I date are like junk food. Short term enjoyment and easily forgotten. 🤣 Most are social media obsessed and worried about IG followers, pointless social justice warrior BS, etc. Keep staying connected to the past. Definitely a better era. 👍
This song kicks ass & is one of Kenny's most underrated. The movie? Meh... not so much. But i'll always have a soft spot in my heart for that lovable (albeit destructive) gopher.
Great song! I still remember when it was popular back in 1988. I was nine years old and this video was played constantly on MTV when it actually was MTV and not worthless reality shows. Unfortunately, Caddyshack II really sucked. I've always liked this song much better than "I'm Alright" from the original movie. This song has lots of liveliness and energy, whereas "I'm Alright" is rather boring and repetitive. One thing's for sure, there will never be another decade as good as the eighties! Happy Birthday Kenny Loggins! ~Dutch
Actually, "I'm Alright" is the way better song in my opinion. Never cared for this song, since it just sounds like a typical generic '80s song from that time. The two songs he did for the Footloose soundtrack were even better, and major hits too. He also had another great hit called "Vox Humana" from another album he had out around the same time the "Footloose" hit blew up, which has been forgotten since it was overshadowed by his other two hits. Btw, Loggins just put out a new memoir called "I'm Alright", and he also put out a new version of "Danger Zone", his hit from the original Top Gun soundtrack.
You know, I almost never think of Kenny Loggins when I think about awesome 80's music, but every time I hear a song of his I'm like "HELL YEAH, I REMEMBER THAT!" The dude is pretty much the quintessential 80's musician.
If Caddyshack II were half as good as this song is, it would be one of the greatest comedies of all time. This song deserved to be attached to a different and better movie.
Nothing better than 80's Movie Theme songs! Can listen to them all day long.. This movie? Sure it wasn't the greatest but hey, its the 80's, we can forgive.. This theme is near the top of my list though..
Every so often a favorite song would come on the car radio just as I got to my destination. When it did, I would put the car in reverse and drive around some more until it ended. "Nobody's Fool" was one of them. Why the local '80s FM stations repeatedly air the same old '80s "standards", yet hardly ever play lesser-known gems like this I will never understand. "Footloose", "Don't Stop Believin" & "Small Town" start to get boring after a while.
I never understood why he never played this live. It’s such a great song that I bet his fans would love to hear. Unless the record company tied his hands and kept him from performing it.
Nobody's Fool would be tough to sing on a concert tour. Much of the song (specifically the chorus and each verse leading into the chorus) is in Kenny's upper vocal register and requires a lot of breath support. Unless they dropped it to a lower key and/or did it as a slower acoustic song, performing Nobody's Fool live every night would blow out Kenny's vocal chords.
I read an article this summer in which Kenny confirmed this is a doozy to sing and that if he does sing it, he needs some recovery time (easy tunes). He killed it in DC in June.
"And Kenny Loggins returned to perform the movie's theme song 'Nobody's Fool'. Which is what the audience said after not going to see this movie." -Brad Jones (The Cinema Snob)
