![]() ![]() Different songwriters would show up at parties, and we'd all take turns showing whatever we'd written that week. In those days, as a songwriter, you'd go around to different parties, much like what's happening here in Nashville where you have writers in the round. I wrote this song about Winnie the Pooh, but I was 17, and I didn't really have any awareness that I wasn't allowed to write a song about Winnie the Pooh, and that there were people who owned that copyright. I think there's an incredible story behind how the song got recorded, and copyright issues. I didn't really think it through like that. Some part of me knew that I was leaving my childhood behind. I felt like that was akin to what I was going through in high school. The last chapter is where Christopher Robin is leaving the Hundred Acre Wood, and he's telling everybody goodbye. Well, (I was) going on graduation in high school, and for some reason, I was thinking about that last chapter in "The House at Pooh Corner." It was the first book I ever read. You write it when you're 17 years old? Take me back to that idea and the writing of the song. Kenny Loggins: Well, I didn't consider it craftsmanship. Watch Video: Story Behind the Song: 'House at Pooh Corner'īart Herbison: I find this incredible that you had, first of all, that level of craftsmanship as a senior in high school. ![]()
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