Songoftheday 9/9/13 - Looking into your eyes I know I'm right, if there's anything worth my love It's worth a fight...

Kenny Loggins - "I'm Free (Heaven Helps The Man)"
from the album Footloose (Original Soundtrack) (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #22 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 8

Today's Song of the Day was the sixth and final top-40 hit from the mega-popular soundtrack to the movie Footloose. After Kenny Loggins' title track topped the chart, Bonnie Tyler stormed in with "Holding Out For A Hero". R&B singer Deniece Williams scored a second #1 from the film with "Let's Hear It For The Boy", followed by Shalamar with their post-disco slice of heaven "Dancing In The Sheets". Then two hot rock groups' lead singers came together as Mike Reno and Ann Wilson made the top-10 with the movie's love theme, "Almost Paradise".

For the sixth single (seventh counting Karla Bonoff's "Somebody's Eyes", which "bubbled under" the Hot 100), Loggins got another go as "I'm Free (Heaven Helps The Man)", co-written by the singer with the movie's screenwriter Dean Pitchford, made the grade, despite a totally awful (but of course perfect for its time) music video with the most unthreatening "hoodlum kids" they could muster, all to save a young Virginia Madsen...

"I'm Free" became a top-40 hit in America July of 1984, as it also did in Canada.

Fun fact: During this time Kenny fell in love with his colon therapist, who he later married after divorcing his wife. You don't see that on any eHarmony commercial.

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While the song didn't appear in the 2011 remake of the movie, it did have a place in the Broadway musical adaptation..


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