“Have a nice Hurricane!” That’s what actor Ted Knight told the Caddyshack crew when heading back to L.A. for the weekend.

That’s how the shoot began with Hurricane David bearing down on the Rolling Hills Country Club Golf Course in Davie, FL. Unfortunately it would be the least of the crew’s problems. After all, the director, Harold Ramis, had never directed a movie before. Comedian Rodney Dangerfield didn’t know the basics of acting in front of a camera. One of the producers, Doug Kenney, had no idea what a producer did. The other producer, Joel Peters only claim to fame was being Barbara Streisand’s boyfriend. Except for Ted Knight, everyone was inhaling large amounts of cocaine, and it was 50/50 that Bill Murray would show up to do his scenes.

Somehow the crew made it through principal photography. So Ramis and Kenney started the long process of editing the film, which they also had no idea how to do, which is why their first cut clocked in at 4.5 hours.

Stoned out of their minds and out of ideas, Ramis and Kenney threw up their hands. So Peters hired editor after editor to turn a collection of hilarious bits into a semi-coherent film. He even suggested the (mostly invisible) gopher that terrorizes the golf course should have a more prominent role.

Kenny hated the idea, but Ramis knew someone had to save the film. Why not a furry, little rodent? So production paid a Walt Disney Imagineer $5K for a gopher that could cough up smoke and dance. Then Peters asked Ramis and Kenney who they wanted to do the music.

“”How about Pink Floyd,” was Ramis’ response.

The suggestion was not helpful. So Peters reached out to a friend who recently collaborated with his girlfriend on the movie A Star is Born.

At that point Kenny Loggins had written music for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and was half of the recently disbanded Loggins & Messina. Writing for a movie would be new. Still he accepted the offer and found the assignment surprisingly easy. So easy that after watching a rough-cut of the film, he sat at his kitchen table and wrote “I’m Alright” basing it on the scene where the lead caddy, Danny, casually bikes to work.

This is where it began for Loggins in movies: writing a song a gopher could dance to, a song that was an instant hit, a song that would lead to bigger chart toppers like “Footloose” and “Danger Zone,” a song that would continue to reappear in other movies and shows throughout the years, the latest being Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus. Even Loggins knew he sunk a 90-foot putt. “I just listened to it and thought, this is a smash!”