Artist: Kenny Rogers
Genre(s):
Country
Other
Pop
Vocal
Discography:
Water and Bridges
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Por Gavi's Music CD5
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Por Gavi's Music CD4
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Por Gavi's Music CD3
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Por Gavi's Music CD2
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Eyes That See in the Dark
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
21 Number Ones
Year: 2006
Tracks: 22
The Hit Collection
Year: 2004
Tracks: 17
If Only My Heart Had a Voice
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
The gambler
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
42 Ultimate Hits (CD 2)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 21
42 Ultimate Hits (CD 1)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 21
Original Gold - CD2
Year: 1998
Tracks: 15
Original Gold - CD1
Year: 1998
Tracks: 15
The Very Best Of
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Lo mejor del country
Year:
Tracks: 12
Greatest Hits (cd2)
Year:
Tracks: 14
Greatest Hits (cd1)
Year:
Tracks: 14
20 Greatest Hits 'Entire Album'
Year:
Tracks: 1
It took several tries before Kenny Rogers became a whizz. As a penis of the First Edition (and the New Christy Minstrels ahead that), he divided up in some million-sellers, among them "Reuben James" and "Crimson, Don't Take Your Love to Town," an fantabulous Mel Tillis song about a handicapped ex-serviceman. But superstardom lay ahead for this Texan, and it arrived in the late '70s. His have with the two previous pop groups had prepared him well: he knew the soft listening consultation was knocked out on that point, and he supplied them with well through middle-of-the-road songs with a country flavour. Having asleep solo, in 1976 Rogers charted with "Making love Lifted Me." But it was with an salient sung dynasty by writers Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum, "Lucille," that his whizz shot upward.
The rest (as they state) is history: award-winning duets with Dottie West and Dolly Parton, 12 TV specials, some other birdcall of the year with "The Gambler," "Daytime Friends," "Coward of the County," "We've Got Tonight," "Softheaded," "Lady" (his number one pop number unmatchable), etc., etc., etc. And that's simply the musical side of Rogers. In 1980, the made-for-TV film The Gambler deuced the contest, followed quickly by Noel Coward of the County, and then enough sequels to The Gambler to acquire him to Roman number IV. Throughout the '80s, Rogers remained a famous person, even when his gross revenue were declining. Even during the '90s, when he seldom charted, his appoint, face, and music were recognizable in a series of concerts, video specials, films, and fifty-fifty fast food restaurants.
Like many country superstars, Rogers came from low roots. Born in Houston, TX, Rogers and his heptad siblings were raised in one of the poorest sections of ithiel Town. Nevertheless, he progressed through high gear schooling, all the piece scholarship how to play guitar and fiddle. When he was a senior, he played in a rockabilly band called the Scholars, wHO released trey singles, including "Kangewah," which was written by Louella Parsons. Following his graduation, he released deuce singles, "We'll Always Fall in Love Again" and "For You Alone," on the local autonomous label Carlton. The B-side of the number one single, "That Crazy Feeling," was popular enough to garner him a expansion slot on American English Bandstand. In 1959, he briefly attended the University of Texas, simply he soon dropped kayoed to spiel basso in the jazz jazz group the Bobby Doyle Three. While he was with the grouping, Rogers continued to explore other melodic venues and played bass on Mickey Gilley's 1960 single "Is It Wrong." The Bobby Doyle Three released one album, In a Most Unusual Way, before Rogers left wing the group to play with the Kirby Stone Four. He didn't stay retentive with Stone and before long landed a solo record contract with Mercury.
Will Rogers released a handful of singles on Mercury, all of which failed. Once Mercury dropped the vocaliser, he coupled the New Christy Minstrels in 1966. He stayed with the folks group for a year, going with respective other bandmembers -- Mike Settle, Terry Williams, and Thelma Lou Camacho -- in 1967 to var. the First Edition. Adding drummer Mickey Jones, the First Edition sign with Reprise and recorded the pop-psychedelic single "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)." The single became a strike early in 1968, mounting to number five. Within a year, the group was billed as Kenny Rogers & the First Edition, and in the summer of 1969, they had their second base and last Top Ten hit, "Deep red, Don't Take Your Love to Town." The rural area overtones of the single hinted at the focal point Rogers was taking, as did the minor hit follow-up, "Ruben James." For the next iI years, the First Edition bounced 'tween country, pop, and modest psychedelia, scoring their final self-aggrandising gain with Mac Davis' "Something's Burning" in early 1970. By the closing of 1972, the group had its own syndicated television show, only gross sales were drying up. They leftfield Reprise the following year, signing to Rogers' new judge, Jolly Rogers. None of their singles became major hits, though a version of Merle Haggard's "Today I Started Loving You Again" reached the depress regions of the country charts belated in 1973. Rogers leftfield the group in 1974, and the band skint up the next year.
At the time the band stony-broke up, Rogers was severely in debt and Jolly Rogers was out of byplay. In order to jump his life history, he gestural to United Artists in 1975, and with the help of producer Larry Butler, he devised an accessible, radio-ready, and immaculately crafted carry on country-pop that leaned toward adult modern-day pop, non country. "Love Lifted Me," his debut single for the label, was a small hit early in 1976, only it took a total year for Rogers to stimulate a literal breakthrough hit with "Lucille." Climbing to identification number one early in 1977, "Lucille" not solely was a major country hit, earning the Country Music Association's Single of the Year honour, merely it likewise was a huge crossover succeeder, peaking at number five on the pop charts. For the next sixer years, Rogers had a steady string of Top Ten hits on both the country and pop charts.
His crossover success is important -- his succulent, easy hearing productions and smooth croons showed that rural area stars could suppress the pop audience, if produced and marketed right. During the late '70s and other '80s, much of area radio was henpecked either by urban rodeo rider or country-pop in the vein of Rogers' have singles. Between 1978 and 1980, he had five straight number one rural area singles -- "Honey or Something Like It," "The Gambler," "She Believes in Me," "You Decorated My Life," "Noel Coward of the County" -- most of which besides reached the pop Top Ten. In addition to his solo hits, he had a series of Top Ten duets with Dottie West, including the identification number one hits "Every Time Two Fools Collide" (1978), "All I Ever Need Is You" (1979), and "What Are We Doin' in Love" (1981). Not only did his singles sell well, just so did his albums, with every record he released betwixt 1976's Kenny Rogers and 1984's At one time Upon a Christmas going gold or atomic number 78.
By the rootage of the '80s, Rogers' hearing was as practically pop as it was rural area, and singles like his cover of Lionel Richie's "Peeress" confirmed that fact, outlay six weeks at the height of the pop charts. Rogers also began playing duets with pop singers like Kim Carnes ("Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer," number terzetto country, phone number four pop, 1980) and Sheena Easton ("We've Got Tonight," number one country, phone number six pop, 1983). Rogers also began devising inroads into goggle box and film, appearance in a number of TV specials and made-for-TV movies, including 1982's Sise Pack and iI movies based on his songs "The Gambler" and "Coward of the County." Late in 1983, he left United Artists/Liberty for RCA Records, cathartic a duet with Dolly Parton called "Islands in the Stream" as his first single for the judge. Written by the Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb, the record became one of his biggest hits, disbursement two weeks on the top of the inning of both the land and pop charts.
Virginia McMath stayed at RCA for five-spot years, during which time he alternated 'tween MOR, adult modern-day pop, and slick country-pop. The hits didn't fall as often as they used to, and they were oft competing with releases from Liberty's vaults, just he managed to log five phone number unitary singles for the mark, in addition to "Islands in the Stream": "Unbalanced" (1984), "Tangible Love" (1985), "Morning Desire" (1985), "Grave of the Unknown Love" (1986), and the Ronnie Milsap pair "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" (1987). Despite his land successes, he no longer had pop crossing hits. Nevertheless, Rogers' concerts continued to be popular, as did his made-for-TV movies. Still, the want of blockbuster records meant that RCA failed to regenerate his contract when it expired in 1988. Rogers returned to his first label, Reprise, where he had one major strike -- 1989's Top Ten "The Vows Go Unbroken (E'er True to You)," interpreted from the gold record album Something Inside So Strong -- earlier his singles started charting in the lour half of the Top 40.
Throughout the recent '80s and '90s, Rogers unbroken busy with charity work, concerts, his fast food chain Kenny Rogers' Roasters, idiot box specials, movies, and picture taking, publishing no less than two books, Kenny Rogers' America and Kenny Rogers: Your Friends and Mine, of his photos. Rogers continued to record, releasing albums closely every year, merely they failed to break beyond his large, devoted fan basis and exclusively made a svelte impact on the charts. With 1998's Christmastime from the Heart, he established his own record label, Dreamcatcher; She Rides Wild Horses followed a year afterward, and Thither You Go Again was issued in mid-2000. A&E Live by Request appeared in 2001, followed by Indorse to the Well in 2003, Me & Bobby McGee in 2004, and Water & Bridges in 2006.
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