Bob James (later the keyboard player of Fourplay), who co-produced the album with Phil Ramone, wrote this song with Loggins, who was in New York and missing home.
Kenny Loggins didn't set out to write a holiday song - it was his producer Phil Ramone, who persuaded him to pen lyrics about missing home during the festive period. "I wrote it in the Christmas season. I was in New York and I wanted to go home," he told ABC Audio. "I thought the phrase 'Celebrate Me Home' was a filler phrase, the way the classic story of [Paul] McCartney saying 'Scrambled Eggs' really became 'Yesterday.'" "And so I thought 'Celebrate Me Home' was just something that I'd replace," Loggins continued. "And then when I played it for Phil Ramone, he said, 'No, that's the phrase!' And so I went upstairs and wrote it based on being homesick."
Kenny Loggins (from his website): "I think my best stuff - songs like 'Danny's Song,' 'A Love Song,' 'Celebrate Me Home' - has always been written in the first person about things that mattered to me the most."
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