. >> kenny loggins.ike, why don't you just use michael mcdonald for every background vocal you ever had? >> jimmy: why wouldn't you? [ applause ] i have a funny story about kenny loggins. something that happened here. >> tell me, give to it me. >> jimmy: tom cruise was here. we thought it would be fun to have kenny loggins sit in. >> "danger zone." >> jimmy: right. guess what, they'd never met before. that was the first time they'd ever met. >> that's amazing. >> jimmy: here on the show. >> a great story, i said, how did you get your music in "top gun"? i just assumed they would go to him, he's kenny loggins. >> jimmy: right. >> no. >> jimmy: what? >> he has a sit in a theater with the guys from journey and whitesnake. >> jimmy: are you kidding me? >> donna summer. they're all scheming about how they get their songs in it. and he goes, you know what? when he saw the volleyball scene, he goes, no one's going to write a song for the volleyball scene. i will. [ laughter ] and that's how he got his first son

you watch the video and you're seeing kenny loggins in that? no. i see how people fell in love with him. and how cute was he in the high waisted jeans and the white tank? ♪ ♪ because i had the time of my life ♪ ♪ i never felt this way before ♪ >> they knew who was buying these moves was teenagers and the thing they wanted to do was buy the soundtrack so they can relive it. ♪ purple rain, purple rain ♪ >> "purple rain" hit me really hard. to this day i have yet to see a mainstream film that uses music as an emotion in such an incredible way. ♪ i want to see you i want to see you ♪ ♪ in the purple rain ♪ >> what do you care about mark ratner for? he's a 16-year-old usher in the movie theater. you have dated older guys. you work at the best food stand in the mall and you're a close, personal friend of mine. >> there was so much reality in the script to "fast times". the way that cameron wrote "fast times at ridgemont high" is that he went back to high school. >> i never graduated traditionally. so the idea was i could go back and have the senior year