Kenny Loggins is none too happy with President Trump’s use of his hit song “Danger Zone” as the background music for his new ridiculous AI-generated video that shows “King Trump” flying a plane over a major city and then basically shitting on all of the residents below.
Seriously, what kind of respected leader does something like this? And aren’t there better uses his time than playing around with this idiotic crap ... like maybe running the country or something? And what does it say about the way he feels about his own country’s citizens … the people he is supposed to represent and keep safe?
Honestly, this goes WAY beyond the realm of rational thinking and I can't just let it slide anymore. Where the hell are we headed if this is the way our fearless leader feels about us?!?! And yet here he is again, using unlicensed music to feed his own agenda.
If someone ELSE had posted this video … or a similarly created video of a plane dropping its load of shit on Trump’s head, he very likely might have blasted them for an abuse of free speech … much as he campaigned to have Jimmy Kimmel removed from late night tv …
But HE posted this video HIMSELF!!! This is his OWN doing … as his own expression of free speech … King Trump?!?!? No wonder The Brits are doing away with some of their titles!!! (kk)
This is an unauthorized use of my performance of ‘Danger Zone.’ Nobody asked me for my permission, which I would have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is removed immediately. I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us. Too many people are trying to tear us apart, and we need to find new ways to come together. We’re all Americans, and we’re all patriotic. There is no ‘us and them’ – that’s not who we are, nor is it what we should be. It’s all of us. We’re in this together, and it is my hope that we can embrace music as a way of celebrating and uniting each and every one of us.
--Kenny Loggins
LONG-time Forgotten Hits Reader Phil Miglioratti, who also helms the “Pray For Surf” website, recently interviewed me for his site … and that interview is now posted here: https://prayforsurfblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/75-million-visits-my-interview-with.html
It’s a nice look back at what Forgotten Hits has covered over the past 26 years …
Take a look if you get a chance! (kk)
Kent,
Love this time of year since it's football season. Today I heard and saw a television commercial for the first time (twice). I don't believe it has run before. The product was crispy chicken from Taco Bell. However, in the background was Jimmie Rodgers' 1960 song T.L.C. (Tender Love & Care).
The flip was THE WIZARD I believe. Liked the song better than the product being touted.
Larry
Jim Roup has found some more confidential network memos to share ... this time from the ABC Television Special "Around The Beatles" ... as well as an ad for their then-new single, run in The New Musical Express ...
Despite numerous denials to the effect that Fleetwood Mac could never continue without Christine McVie, Tom Cuddy sents us this article about a possible "Rumours" 50th Year Anniversary plan ...
>>>You know, we've been saluting this album now for over 25 years ... and I can't say for certain just how many times we've featured this album cover on our website before ... but if I had to hazard an educated guess, I'll just betcha it's been AT LEAST three or four times now! (kk)
OH how cute! I'm teaching my students how to count by tens, too! 10-20-30-40-50
Shelley
Hot on the heels of the passing of original guitarist Ace Frehley, KISS has a brand new, super deluxe box set coming your way, celebrating the band's third album, "Dressed To Kill."
And Clark Besch tells us about another new Billboard "rule of methodology" that will change the way the current Hot 100 Chart is calculated ...
Back in April when we interviewed John Cafferty about his new album (his first in over thirty years), we told him that we were going to find a way to bring him to Chicago for a show … and, thanks to the helpful hand of Ron Onesti and The Arcada Theatre, that show will now be a reality next Sunday, November 2nd, at 5 pm. (This will also be John’s first Chicago-area appearance in over thirty years!)
Flashback and revisit our interview … and give a listen to one of the new tracks from the album … these guys haven’t lost a step.
https://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2025/04/forgotten-hits-interviews-john-cafferty.html
Sadly, we lost John’s long-time sax player Michael “Tunes” Antunes in the intervening months … and while you can never really replace someone like that (they'd been together for close to fifty years!), the band has to keep moving forward and John tells us …
We’ll have our old buddy Ronnie Dee on sax (his dad is Joey Dee of Joey Dee & the Starlighters). Ronnie grew up with this style and does a terrific job with us. He also knew Tunes.
I was talking to Tunes’ son Kevin a little while back, who is a very successful musician in his own right with Justin Timberlake Janet Jackson & Madonna. He told me of a long ago story from when he was just a young kid. He asked me what kind of music his dad and I played. He said I didn’t even hesitate. “We play grown man music!” I said. He never forgot that. And now … as grown men when we lose someone dear … we express our love, our loss, we mourn, we pay our respect and then we go back to work. We are working men who provide for our families. So … that’s what we are doing. We continue on at a high level to shed the warmest light on the road travelled and keep well lit the road ahead.
best - jc
Great seats are still available … and we’ll be giving away a couple of pair of tickets as well … so if you’d like to see the show, drop me a line quickly so we can get these comps into a few good hands. (Thanks again to Ron Onesti for this generous offer.)
Don’t miss your chance to see this great show … tickets can be purchased here:
