Why would we care that there is no good new music... we have songs like this one to last the rest of our lives! Thank Jim and Kenny for all you have given us
My hubby passed last July. Browsing tonight and discovered logins & Messina, we had every album, and he sang all songs with his beautiful voice. I’m missing him tonight listening to this music which was part of our 45 year history together 😢
It was a sad day in 1976 when I saw Loggins and Messina do their farewell show at the Santa Barbara County Bowl.......But I was fortunate enough to be in the Bowl again , for this...their Reunion Tour Show......They even sold copies of the DVD that same night , on the way out the gate.....L&M....way to go!
Lucky you. Ive been a fan since the 70s. Love to return to the 70s and live it again. I'd even repeat my 4 yrs in the United States Marine Corps 73-77, just to live the 70s. Stay safe my friend and greetings from Charleston, West Virginia.
“Listening, learning and Yearning “, wow! I live beside a beautiful river and this song plays through my mind every time I walk beside it. The multi levels of instruments and tones that layer this song along with the woven harmonies of their great voices thrills me every time I hear it. I wish it could go on and on …
I've been sitting with Kenny & Jimmy watching the river run for over 50 years now. It seemed not long ago we had just begun. Their music and personna helped define an era and set a current for the river to flow. Like many Amercan Baby Boomers, I am blessed by the journey and the musical company.
After all these decades/years, you two still make such beautiful music together, thank you!!!! Thanks to all those good people behind you that also killed their parts so perfectly !!! God Bless you ALL ! Fran Danco
WoW I searched for this Song because I love it and the Singers but had no idea they could still perform like this and sound even better than ever. I wish I could see them live!
😊 I will always love this song❤. Yes, it's a great song❤ However, more importantly, it holds a lot of wonderful memories that makes me feel just,,,aww so good😊🎉🎉🥰💫💫
This song, along with Bad Company’s Seagull, was played at the beginning of my wedding in 1979. It still gives me a thrill to hear it all these years later.
Been a fan since discovering On Stage their first live album, saw them live a dozen times, two fabulous musicians and a super talented band. Jim Messina is one of the best arrangers I’ve ever known
This song and their rendition makes my song soar. It makes me remember a time when I was far more open to possibilities. I pray that this feeling overtakes me again. Nothing does this for me like music. Thank you L and M..
many thanks to the incredible talent and egos of buffalo springfield. jim messina, recognized kenny loggins' talent, invested his own street cred, taught him the music business and took them both to stardom. if only it were that simple or painless. for while the ego allows each of us individuality, time teaches a better way. a way of reconciliation, humility and peace. evident here. run river run.
This song I am dedicating to my daughter.❤ . As I listen to theissong 💘 I'm thinking about how,, she's the river and I am her shore🌺🕊️. Because she has a whole lifetime ahead of her to discover the beautiful things In her life. She has yet to discover all the beauty and love 💕 and all good things that are waiting ahead for her to discover ❤ I'm now in my late '60s. And I want her to know that I will always be there,, watching her from afar up in heaven🙏🕊️. Always keeping a close eye on her. She may not see me,, bu tmy love For her I will make sure we'll always be around her keeping her safe . She has so much more yet to see and to do.. So I will always be her strong n steadfast shore watching my daughter aka the river. . My spirit will always be inside her heart💘🌺 I will always be her shore and she will always be the river, traveling and moving on in her life to be the best person she can be🙏💯🌹🕊️ Yet I've aged. I'm in my '60s now so I'm her shore.. I want her ,,. I want her to know that willI always be That's strong. keeping her protected her With all my love 🌹🕊️🌹. I will always be looking out for her ,,,watching over her,,, protecting her,,, from all the bad things that can happen during her journey in life, Well I continue to look down on her everyday maybe even giving her signs. Making sure the river stays calm and it stays peaceful and Serene. Just what I want my daughter's life to be and more importantly knowing she's loved. You know she can't see me. My love is there for her🌺🙏🌺.
GENTS , and folks who helped, just a great time warp to what was once with real music !! Boys , Thanks !! We will never be there again EVER !!!! Led Z was 5 fold !!!
I would have loved to have been there... Stationed at Ft. Wainwright I got to see Firefall, a close second. It's the music and its connectivity. I really miss being in Alaska.
NEVER do I ever get tired of listening to Loggins & Messina. They bring such great memories of an awesome time in my life of candlemaking in Coconut Grove in the 70s& 80s.
The memories we have, by the choices we make while we are in THIS life, is the only thing we take with us when it’s over. This vehicle or body will wear out, it has a time limit, each different by how you treat it. As we get closer to the end, our vulnerability is greater. So, make as many good memories as you can. Those memories will be your heaven or your hell forever. And THAT, is a very long time. We will never meet up again when it’s over. Our memories of each other will be our only contact. It all boils down to one word. CHOICES..what ever memory we have will be created by the choices we made while in this life. Life is too short as it is. Now, go in peace, my child and prosper. 🖖
Thanks guys! This is a go to song when I think about my oldest son who has left fold and lives abroad and works for the UN. He is now sharing his adventures with me.
The River runs, as life. In 1986 my husband gave me a tape of these songs. I was married, he didn't care, he loved me for 31 years with all his heart, and all your songs. Thank you for a lifetime memory that goes on and on. Sue
This was the last song that I sang to her a day and a half before she passed away in 2007. It's taken 10 years before I could smile again at this song. My best to you. We had 27 years together and 2 great kids. Craig
My daughter tells me they used this song, without knowing its origins, as a closing song for several days at the 2014 Oregon Shakespeare Summer Seminar for High School Juniors. (Professional-level training in all aspects of theater for the most highly motivated students.)
STILl! Love y'all!! Blessings!,Blessings! Blessings! Thrice. Love, Soe-so-henya,(White) My husband 33 yrs. played the White album, best friends, this was our first song. He went to the other plane, 2008. Rivers, Always run to sea. Ill see him again.
Wonderful job, guys! I've loved this song since the seventies...and now my grand-kids do too!! I live in an area that has rivers and forested beauty all around me....and a huge mountain range with a great (internationally known) hiking trail nearby as well...so this song has special meaning for me because of that. I've loved this song (and sung it) since I bought the album in high school. In college...I got the "On Stage" album, and it became one of my top 5 favorite albums (on vinyl and CD) EVER!!! Got to see you "live" in college as well (New England). So happy to find this LIVE version with you folks. Gotta say: Kenny's still a hottie!!! xD
This is probably my favorite live clip from any concert I've seen on UA-cam. These guys ( & band) are so tight! Always loved Loggins and Messina! Wish they would do more shows together 🙂
This was the first song I played and sang to my girlfriend while on a picnic near our local river. I also sang it to her as we got married right up by the altar in front of a church full of relatives. Talk about nervous. Sadly, she divorced me a year later....seems she found one with a better tune. Great song though, but I can't sing it without thinking back to those two days I sang it for someone I thought would be still "watching the river run" with me.
You've no idea how close your story is to mine. Still one of my favorite songs of all time, though....especially meaningful for times that you might find yourself alone and discouraged. Shake off that association for this song...and claim it as yours AGAIN!! I DID!!! :-)
Me too... Danny's Song was there too... I still enjoy hearing it! As long as your heart/mind is in the right place, it's good... Those type songs have been around for a long time... If, things were perfect... We would have not had all these great songs! If you think about it... WE, are probably better off for the "shit", we went through. Personally... I'd rather have the music!
I saw them in concert in 1976 before they broke up & for years I was hoping they would get back together again. In 2005 they did reunite & I wasted no time buying tickets & then seeing them at the Greek Theatre in L.A., California. They opened up with this song,
How long did these guys have to rehearse to get this good. Before they decide on this comeback tour it is my understanding that they hadn't played together in years. Amazing. Gives me chills.
Why would we care that there is no good new music... we have songs like this one to last the rest of our lives! Thank Jim and Kenny for all you have given us
💝
😊😊I'm very pleased to know I'm not the only one that loves the song but when last did you play it.
Humanity is going RUNNING LIKE LEMMINGS to the cliff !, but ¡ I AGREE WITH YOU !
Jim and Dave. Dave is Kenny's second cousin, but they look AND sound so much alike!
Thank you Loggins and Messina for all the fantastic music over the years.!!!
Thank you Jesus for allowing my youth to have grown up in this incredible music era!!!!
My hubby passed last July. Browsing tonight and discovered logins & Messina, we had every album, and he sang all songs with his beautiful voice. I’m missing him tonight listening to this music which was part of our 45 year history together 😢
Im sorry for such a loss. These songs take us to an exact place and time and each precious moment we had
AHHH, SO SORRY,,, TEARS IN MY EYES!
wow I have been there with you all of those years
😢
sorry for your loss but so poignant are there word and songs
It was a sad day in 1976 when I saw Loggins and Messina do their farewell show at the Santa Barbara County Bowl.......But I was fortunate enough to be
in the Bowl again , for this...their Reunion Tour Show......They even sold copies of the DVD that same night , on the way out the gate.....L&M....way to go!
Lucky you. Ive been a fan since the 70s. Love to return to the 70s and live it again. I'd even repeat my 4 yrs in the United States Marine Corps 73-77, just to live the 70s. Stay safe my friend and greetings from Charleston, West Virginia.
Thank you LORD i grew up with the music from the 60's 70's and 80's!
Me too!
Love the flutes at the end.🎶
This is the first Loggins and Messina song I ever heard. I was 12 ! A 50 year love affair! God bless💕💕
For me it was Danny's Song, and then a friend introduced me to the whole Sittin' In album and I was hooked
The lyrics of this song are so beautiful. So bittersweet. One of my forever favorites.
What an incredible duet.
Such a beautiful timeless song.
I love this so much! The glances between Kenny and Jim are so sweet. The flutes at the end are the perfect ending.
What a song! Loggins & Messina nailed it!
Love this group. Followed them since 1972. Thank you L & M. Rh.
“Listening, learning and Yearning “, wow! I live beside a beautiful river and this song plays through my mind every time I walk beside it. The multi levels of instruments and tones that layer this song along with the woven harmonies of their great voices thrills me every time I hear it. I wish it could go on and on …
My favorite Loggins and Messina song!
DAMN, WHAT AN ERA OF THE GREATEST MUSIC IT TRULY WAS, THANKS LOGGINS AND MESSINA!
The mandolin, a wonderful touch to L&M,s wooden music
I've been sitting with Kenny & Jimmy watching the river run for over 50 years now. It seemed not long ago we had just begun. Their music and personna helped define an era and set a current for the river to flow. Like many Amercan Baby Boomers, I am blessed by the journey and the musical company.
After all these decades/years, you two still make such beautiful music together, thank you!!!! Thanks to all those good people behind you that also killed their parts so perfectly !!! God Bless you ALL ! Fran Danco
I'm rediscovering loggins and messina. I love them.
So many great songs by these two. Exquisite music.
This whole concert is available on you tube for free! AMAZING! These two and their whole band are fantastic musicians!
WoW I searched for this Song because I love it and the Singers but had no idea they could still perform like this and sound even better than ever. I wish I could see them live!
😊 I will always love this song❤. Yes, it's a great song❤ However, more importantly, it holds a lot of wonderful memories that makes me feel just,,,aww so good😊🎉🎉🥰💫💫
Reminds me so much of my joyful youth. Song brings a tear to my eye. Thanks L&M.
I would have no problem, living in a van, down by the River, that runs. This is one of my many favourites by this great duo!
🇨🇦✌🏼🎶🎸❤️
😊😊I'm very pleased to know I'm not the only one that loves the song but when last did you play it.
My face now hurts from smiling for 3-1/2 minutes! True talent.
Oh so true!
Bravo!! Memories are still running down my cheeks💔
thank you for this beautiful joyous song. I attempt to live my in haponeness and you have always been a joyful inspiration 💖
This song takes me back to a beautiful time in my life. Such sweetness.
This song, along with Bad Company’s Seagull, was played at the beginning of my wedding in 1979. It still gives me a thrill to hear it all these years later.
WOW, what a great 2 song set.....Seagull is SO underrated.
Love this. Just want to mention that dude is the first spike mohawked mandolin player in the history of rock and roll. Thanks.
...recently heard another live track from these guys on the syndicated Blues Deluxe radio show. Thanks!
Mom, God rest her soul loved this song and these guys :-)
Wonderful!! Kenny and Jim still sound great together. Beautiful song.
Same, if not better than when I saw them in June of 1972!!!
One of those duos whose voices complemented each other so well.
I used to sing this over and over and over when I was a teenager. Wow, I still love it.
I'm so glad that Kenny and Jimmy got together again. Just loved Loggins & Messina in the 70s
My most favorite song of Loggins & Messina! Always love it!🤗
Best acoustic and vocal duo
Gorgeous. Just beautiful. I loved these guys then and this rendition is brilliant.
Been a fan since discovering On Stage their first live album, saw them live a dozen times, two fabulous musicians and a super talented band. Jim Messina is one of the best arrangers I’ve ever known
A great song 😊 they were so great together broke my heart when they quit playing together 😥 any time they sing together is fantastic ❤
I agree. Love to return to the 70s and be a teenager again. I turned 15 yrs old back in 1970. A great time to be a teenager.
what a wonderful time to grow up ty L& M for being there love
This song and their rendition makes my song soar. It makes me remember a time when I was far more open to possibilities. I pray that this feeling overtakes me again. Nothing does this for me like music. Thank you L and M..
messina
Kenny and Jim wrote this song and I like every version they sing.
many thanks to the incredible talent and egos of buffalo springfield.
jim messina, recognized kenny loggins' talent, invested his own street cred, taught him the music business and took them both to stardom.
if only it were that simple or painless.
for while the ego allows each of us individuality, time teaches a better way.
a way of reconciliation, humility and peace. evident here.
run river run.
This song I am dedicating to my daughter.❤ . As I listen to theissong 💘 I'm thinking about how,, she's the river and I am her shore🌺🕊️. Because she has a whole lifetime ahead of her to discover the beautiful things In her life. She has yet to discover all the beauty and love 💕 and all good things that are waiting ahead for her to discover ❤ I'm now in my late '60s. And I want her to know that I will always be there,, watching her from afar up in heaven🙏🕊️. Always keeping a close eye on her. She may not see me,, bu tmy love For her I will make sure we'll always be around her keeping her safe . She has so much more yet to see and to do.. So I will always be her strong n steadfast shore watching my daughter aka the river. . My spirit will always be inside her heart💘🌺 I will always be her shore and she will always be the river, traveling and moving on in her life to be the best person she can be🙏💯🌹🕊️ Yet I've aged. I'm in my '60s now so I'm her shore.. I want her ,,. I want her to know that willI always be That's strong. keeping her protected her With all my love 🌹🕊️🌹. I will always be looking out for her ,,,watching over her,,, protecting her,,, from all the bad things that can happen during her journey in life, Well I continue to look down on her everyday maybe even giving her signs. Making sure the river stays calm and it stays peaceful and Serene. Just what I want my daughter's life to be and more importantly knowing she's loved. You know she can't see me. My love is there for her🌺🙏🌺.
TALENT FROM HEAVEN
GENTS , and folks who helped, just a great time warp to what was once with real music !! Boys , Thanks !!
We will never be there again EVER !!!! Led Z was 5 fold !!!
It's been a long time since last hearing this song. These two men have excellent voices.
yes,sir
Beautiful memories. Gorgeous harmony.
I would have loved to have been there...
Stationed at Ft. Wainwright I got to see Firefall, a close second. It's the music and its connectivity. I really miss being in Alaska.
Amazing talent throughout the entire band. Real musicians playing real music.
Masters of melody.
Amazing songs you want to sing along to.
I was there! I will never forget that night. Amazing
NEVER do I ever get tired of listening to Loggins & Messina. They bring such great memories of an awesome time in my life of candlemaking in Coconut Grove in the 70s& 80s.
Always enjoyed Loggins & Messina and got to see them live at the SIUE outdoor concerts back in the 70's. Sound just as good as did back then!
Beautiful music. Always loved them.
I saw them in Mpls. in the 70's. So good to see them again here now!!
My favorite song of Loggins & Messsina!!!
This is one of my favorite songs... just beautiful... :-)
The memories we have, by the choices we make while we are in THIS life, is the only thing we take with us when it’s over. This vehicle or body will wear out, it has a time limit, each different by how you treat it. As we get closer to the end, our vulnerability is greater. So, make as many good memories as you can. Those memories will be your heaven or your hell forever. And THAT, is a very long time. We will never meet up again when it’s over. Our memories of each other will be our only contact.
It all boils down to one word. CHOICES..what ever memory we have will be created by the choices we made while in this life. Life is too short as it is.
Now, go in peace, my child and prosper. 🖖
So many thumbs up for always 😊
Amazing beautiful. Memories.
Thanks guys! This is a go to song when I think about my oldest son who has left fold and lives abroad and works for the UN. He is now sharing his adventures with me.
Great artists.This band was very tight,and great vocals.
I love the simplicity of the song. Really lovely.
The River runs, as life. In 1986 my husband gave me a tape of these songs. I was married, he didn't care, he loved me for 31 years with all his heart, and all your songs. Thank you for a lifetime memory that goes on and on. Sue
This was the last song that I sang to her a day and a half before she passed away in 2007. It's taken 10 years before I could smile again at this song. My best to you. We had 27 years together and 2 great kids.
Craig
My best to you as well.
This song gives me solace after my Husbands passing. It has always been a favorite. Thank you
The very best, love from Croatia!!!
My daughter tells me they used this song, without knowing its origins, as a closing song for several days at the 2014 Oregon Shakespeare Summer Seminar for High School Juniors. (Professional-level training in all aspects of theater for the most highly motivated students.)
STILl! Love y'all!! Blessings!,Blessings! Blessings! Thrice. Love, Soe-so-henya,(White) My husband 33 yrs. played the White album, best friends, this was our first song. He went to the other plane, 2008. Rivers, Always run to sea. Ill see him again.
Loggins & Messina rocks and brings back old memories!
Saw these two in the late 70s it was absolutely phenomenal
Great Talent. I ushered for Loggins and messina in Portland long time ago.
If you are talking about Portland, Oregon you probably showed me to my seat. Still remember them being great shows.
we loved these guys in college, still great
Wonderful job, guys! I've loved this song since the seventies...and now my grand-kids do too!! I live in an area that has rivers and forested beauty all around me....and a huge mountain range with a great (internationally known) hiking trail nearby as well...so this song has special meaning for me because of that. I've loved this song (and sung it) since I bought the album in high school. In college...I got the "On Stage" album, and it became one of my top 5 favorite albums (on vinyl and CD) EVER!!! Got to see you "live" in college as well (New England). So happy to find this LIVE version with you folks. Gotta say: Kenny's still a hottie!!! xD
blondwiththewind Like, Favorite, Playlisting ..... ~~RED ☮♡♫
This is probably my favorite live clip from any concert I've seen on UA-cam. These guys ( & band) are so tight! Always loved Loggins and Messina! Wish they would do more shows together 🙂
Always were a great combo 👌🏽
Excelente ... soy fanático de Loggins & Messina !!! Saludos desde Argentina !
Just love this song -- wonderful to see them performing it (and to see Jim finally smile at the end).
Possibly the most beautiful song ever written.
One of my ALL TIME FAV groups and songs. This song has gotten me thru some rough spots in my journey of life...and I thank you Loggins & Messina
This was the first song I played and sang to my girlfriend while on a picnic near our local river. I also sang it to her as we got married right up by the altar in front of a church full of relatives. Talk about nervous. Sadly, she divorced me a year later....seems she found one with a better tune. Great song though, but I can't sing it without thinking back to those two days I sang it for someone I thought would be still "watching the river run" with me.
This makes me sad. So sorry!
!Animo! y deja el río correr
You've no idea how close your story is to mine. Still one of my favorite songs of all time, though....especially meaningful for times that you might find yourself alone and discouraged. Shake off that association for this song...and claim it as yours AGAIN!! I DID!!! :-)
Me too... Danny's Song was there too... I still enjoy hearing it! As long as your heart/mind is in the right place, it's good... Those type songs have been around for a long time... If, things were perfect... We would have not had all these great songs! If you think about it... WE, are probably better off for the "shit", we went through. Personally... I'd rather have the music!
Struwelpeter62 hope you now found someone who appreciates your loving heart and generous soul. Happiness to you and God bless you ♡
I saw them in concert in 1976 before they broke up & for years I was hoping they would get back together again. In 2005 they did reunite & I wasted no time buying tickets & then seeing them at the Greek Theatre in L.A., California. They opened up with this song,
I like how they switched the chorus parts. Loggins now sings the higher part, and Messina the lower part.
This is such a Beautiful timeless song.Thank you.💟💟💟
😊😊I'm very pleased to know I'm not the only one that loves the song but when last did you play it.
The talent on this stage! Love this. Listening, learning and yearning...run river run....this is the 70s version of run forest run
I like this arrange most.
This is a keeper. The flute and mandolin on the outro are perfect.
How long did these guys have to rehearse to get this good. Before they decide on this comeback tour it is my understanding that they hadn't played together in years. Amazing. Gives me chills.
una maravilla
¡ THANKS VERY MUCH for posting this JEWEL 🎈🎈🎈🎈💝💝💝🎁🎁🎁🎉🎉🎉🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰!!
Memories of....The way we were...We are still innocent
Great song Great performance and two flutes countem at the end two flutes. Real music played by real musicians.
Oh how I would have loved to attend this!🥰
Still a classic and if anything it's better after all these years
I agree. We have such a rich history of great music don't we?
still great after all these years.fantastic
These guys are the best nothing like adding great mandolin to make it even beter
The best!!! Still‼️🎯👋🏼🎶