{"id":29905,"date":"2024-07-12T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/please-come-to-boston-singer-dave-loggins-dies-at-76\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:02:28","slug":"please-come-to-boston-singer-dave-loggins-dies-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/please-come-to-boston-singer-dave-loggins-dies-at-76\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPlease Come To Boston\u201d singer Dave Loggins dies at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-12\/Getty_DaveLoggins_0671224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Singer\/songwriter <strong>Dave Loggins<\/strong>, best known for his tune \u201cPlease Come To Boston,\u201d died July 10, according to an obituary published in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/obituaries\/pokr0878306?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1hUPBDDx3EZuNjev3K0ryNyunLtd5moEuMl-98AzCmHsWIv1Fttcj_MBY_aem_9pfwsZtQoIk7ISTrxwi18g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Tennessean<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dave, second cousin of Grammy-winning singer <strong>Kenny Loggins<\/strong>, passed away at Alive Hospice in Nashville at the age of 76.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cPlease Come to Boston,\u201d released in April 1974, was a <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Hot 100 top five hit and also topped the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Easy Listening chart. It also earned\u00a0Dave a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal performance.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to \u201cPlease Come to Boston,\u201d Dave earned a CMA Award for his 1986 duet with <strong>Anne Murray<\/strong>, \u201cNobody Loves Me Like You Do.\u201d He also wrote songs for such artists as <strong>Johnny Cash<\/strong>, <strong>Jimmy Buffett<\/strong>,<strong> Smokey Robinson<\/strong>, <strong>Tanya Tucker<\/strong>, <strong>Joan Baez<\/strong>, <strong>Willie Nelson<\/strong>, <strong>Kenny Rogers<\/strong> and more.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The obit notes that Dave&#8217;s song \u201cAugusta\u201d is the theme song to the Augusta Masters Golf Tournament, which is \u201cthe longest running sports theme in history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images Singer\/songwriter Dave Loggins, best known for his tune \u201cPlease Come To Boston,\u201d died July 10, according to an obituary published in The Tennessean. Dave, second cousin of Grammy-winning singer Kenny Loggins, passed away at Alive Hospice in Nashville at the age of 76. \u201cPlease Come to<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/please-come-to-boston-singer-dave-loggins-dies-at-76\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,51,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}