Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California on September 27, 2006.
Background information
Birth name	Kenneth Donald Rogers
Born	August 21, 1938
Origin	Houston, Texas, USA
Genre(s)	Country Music Pop Music
Occupation(s)	country singer/pop singer/songwriter/actor/record producer
Years active	1958 – Present
Label(s)	Cue Records, Carlton Records, Mercury Records, United Artists Records, RCA Records, Giant Records, Atlantic Records, Dreamcatcher, Capitol Records
Associated acts	Glen Campbell, Don Henley, Dolly Parton, The Eagles, Dottie West
Website	www.kennyrogers.com

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He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone.

Two of his albums, The Gambler and Kenny are featured in the About.com poll of "The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever".[1] He was voted the "Favorite Singer of All-Time", in a 1986 joint poll by readers of both USA Today and People. [2] About. ... USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. ...

He has received hundreds of awards for both his music and charity work. These include AMAs, Grammys, ACMs and CMAs, as well as a lifetime achievement award for a career spanning six decades in 2003.[3] The American Music Awards show is one of four annual major American music awards shows (the others being the Billboard Music Awards, the Grammy Awards, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Academy of Country Music (ACM) was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California. ... The Country Music Association (CMA) was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

Most recently, Rogers hit with his new album release, Water & Bridges, an across the board hit, that peaked at #5 in the Billboard Country Albums sales charts, also charting high in the Billboard 200. The first single from the album, "I Can't Unlove You," is also a hit. He recently completed a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland, in a 2006 BBC Radio 2 interview he told DJ Steve Wright, his favorite hit of his was "The Gambler". The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. ... BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBCs national radio stations and is the most popular station in the UK. It broadcasts throughout the UK on FM radio between 88 and 91 MHz from its studios in Western House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. ... For other persons named Steven Wright, see Steven Wright (disambiguation). ... The Gambler is the title track to Kenny Rogers 1978 album. ...

Biography

Early groups and releases

Floyd and Lucille had a son named Kenneth Rogers. His father was a carpenter and his mother a practical nurse who worked nights. He was the fourth of seven siblings. Rogers graduated from Jefferson Davis High School in Houston. According to the Texas birth records, his middle given name is Ray and he is sometimes credited in his film roles as "Kenneth Ray Rogers." His career began in the mid-1950s, when he recorded with a doo-wop group called The Scholars who had some success with a single called "Poor Little Doggie". Rogers was not the lead singer of the group and after two more singles they disbanded when their leader went solo. Jefferson Davis High School is a secondary school located at 1101 Quitman in Houston, Texas with a ZIP code of 77009. ... Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music popular in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s in America. ...

Now on his own, Kenneth Rogers (as he was billed then) followed the break up with his own single, a minor solo hit called "That Crazy Feeling" (1958). After sales slowed down, Rogers joined a jazz group called The Bobby Doyle Trio, who got a lot of work in clubs thanks to a reasonable fan following and also recorded for Columbia records. The group disbanded in 1965, and a 1966 jazzy rock single Rogers recorded for Mercury, called "Here's That Rainy Day" failed. In 1966 he joined the New Christy Minstrels. Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ... The New Christy Minstrels were a 1960s a popular folk group reknown for a rousing and clean-cut sound. ...

Feeling that the Minstrels were not offering the success they wanted, Rogers left with fellow members Mike Settle, Terry Williams and Thelma Camacho. They formed The First Edition in 1967 (later renamed "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition"). They chalked up a string of hits on both the pop and country charts, including "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town", "Reuben James" and "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)." In his First Edition days Rogers had long brown hair, an earring, and pink sunglasses. Known affectionately in retrospect as "Hippie Kenny", Rogers had a much smoother vocal style at the time. When the group split in 1976, Rogers launched his solo career. Rogers soon developed a more middle of the road, gravel-voiced style that sold to both pop and country audiences; to date, he has charted more than 60 top 40 hit singles (including upwards of 25 #1's) and no fewer than 50 of his albums have charted. His music has also been featured in top selling movie soundtracks, such as Convoy and Urban Cowboy. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... shot from The Big Lebowski while the song is playing. ... This article is about the radio format. ... Convoy was a movie released in 1978, directed by Sam Peckinpah, and starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, and Burt Young. ... Urban Cowboy is a 1980 film movie starring John Travolta and Debra Winger about the love-hate relationship between Travoltas cowboy character Bud Davis and Wingers cowgirl character Sissy. ...

Solo Artist

After leaving The First Edition in 1976, after almost a decade with the group, Rogers signed a solo deal with United Artists. Although producer Larry Butler had no doubts about Kenny's talent and that he wanted to sign him, he was advised by several colleagues not to sign Rogers, as he was seen as a has-been. Nevertheless, Butler and Rogers began a partnership that would run for four consecutive years. The current United Artists logo (a variant was used during the 1980s). ... Larry Butler is a country music producer/songwriter. ...

Rogers first outing for his new label was Love Lifted Me. The album charted and two singles "Love Lifted Me" and "While The Feeling's Good" were minor hits. The song "Runaway Girl" was featured in the motion picture "Trackdown". Trackdown was a western television series running from 1957 to 1959 that featured Robert Culp as gunslinger Hoby Gilman, a law enforcer hunting down criminals all over the west. ...

Later in the year Rogers issued his second album, the self-titled Kenny Rogers, whose first single "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)", was another solo hit. However, it took "Lucille" in 1977 to blow Rogers' post-First Edition career wide open, reaching Number One in no fewer than 12 countries, selling over five million copies world-wide and pushing the Kenny Rogers album to #1 in the Billboard Country Album Chart. More success was to follow, including the multi-million selling album The Gambler and another international Number 1 single, "Coward of the County", taken from the equally successful album, Kenny. In 1980, the Rogers/Butler partnership came to an end. Butler would work with Kenny in the later years: in 1987 on the album I Prefer The Moonlight and again in 1993 on the album If Only My Heart Had A Voice. The Gambler is one of Kenny Rogers most popular albums, selling in excess of 35 million copies since it was first released by United Artists in 1978 (see 1978 in country music). ...

In the late 1970s Kenny teamed up with close friend and country singer Dottie West for a series of albums and duets. Together the duo had 3 hit albums, selling out stadiums and arenas while on tour. Their hits together "Every Time Two Fools Collide", "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight" and "What Are We Doing In Love" became Country standards. Of West, Kenny stated in a 1995 TNN interview "She, more than anybody else I ever worked with sang with such emotion that you actually believed what she sang." Rogers was with West when she died after sustaining injuries in a 1991 car accident. In 1995 he starred opposite Michele Lee in the CBS biopic "Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story". Dottie West, born Dorothy Marie Marsh (October 11, 1932 in McMinnville, Tennessee–September 4, 1991 in Nashville, Tennessee) was a United States country music singer. ...

Later in 1980 came his partnership with Lionel Richie who wrote and produced Rogers' #1 hit "Lady". Richie went on to write and produce Rogers' 1981 album Share Your Love, a chart topper and commercial favorite featuring hits such as "I Don't Need You" and "Through The Years". Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. ...

He went on to work with the Bee Gees to record and produce his 1983 hit album Eyes That See In The Dark, featuring the title track and yet another #1 hit "Islands in the Stream," a duet with country singer Dolly Parton. The Bee Gees had originally written the song for Diana Ross (who rejected it in favor of Chain Reaction). The partnership with Bee Gees only lasted one album, which was not a surprise considering that Rogers' original intentions were to work with Barry Gibb in only one song but Barry insisted on them doing the entire album. The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers — Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb — that became one of the most successful musical acts of all time. ... Islands in the Stream was a 1989 hit country music single for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, written by the Bee Gees. ... Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated country singer, songwriter, composer, author, actress and philanthropist. ... Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross[1] on March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, disco, and pop. ... Chain Reaction was a hit single for Diana Ross. ... Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE (born on September 1, 1946 in Douglas, Isle of Man) is a singer, songwriter and producer, hailing from England and Australia. ...

"Islands in the Stream", the first single to be released from Eyes That See in the Dark in the United States, quickly went to #1 in the Billboard Hot 100. It was the last country single to reach #1 on that chart until "Amazed" by Lonestar did so in 2000. However, RCA insisted on releasing the title track as the first UK single, and the song stalled at a disappointing #61 there (when it was eventually released in the US, it was more successful, charting high on the Adult Contemporary chart). "Islands in the Stream" was issued as a follow up single in Britain and sold well, making #7. The album also did well there making #1 in the British Country music album chart and also made the pop charts, where it stayed for several months. The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... Amazed is a country music ballad recorded by Lonestar, released as a single from the bands album Lonely Grill. ... Lonestar is an American country music band consisting of Richie McDonald (lead vocals) (born Richard Vance McDonald, on 6 February 1962, in Mesquite, Texas), Michael Britt (guitar) (born Michael Wayne Britt, on 15 June 1966, in Fort Worth, Texas), Keech Rainwater (drums) (born Randy Keech Rainwater, on 24 January 1963...

Kenny Rogers started working with producer David Foster in 1983 recording the smash Bob Seger cover "We've Got Tonight", a duet with Sheena Easton. Shortly afterwards came the album What About Me?, a hit whose title track, a trio performance featuring Rogers, James Ingram and Kim Carnes, was also a hit. David Foster was to work again with Kenny Rogers in his 1985 album The Heart of the Matter, although this time Foster was playing backing music rather than producing, a role given to George Martin. This album was another success, going to #1, with the title track making to the top ten category in the singles charts. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Robert Clark Bob Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician from Michigan, who after years of local Detroit-area success starting in the mid-1960s, achieved his greatest national success starting in the mid-1970s and extending into the 1980s. ... In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... Weve Got Tonight is a 1978 song written by American heartland rocker Bob Seger, off his album Stranger in Town. ... Sheena Easton (born Sheena Shirley Orr on April 27, 1959, Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish-American Grammy Award-winning pop singer and theatre & television actress. ... James Ingram (born February 16, 1956 in Akron, Ohio) is an American soul musician, famous for his vocal performance. ... Kim Carnes Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer-songwriter. ... Sir George Martin CBE (born 3 January 1926 in Highbury, London, England) is sometimes referred to as the fifth Beatle, a title that he owes to his work as producer of almost all of the Beatles records. ...

On 28 January 1985 Rogers was one of the 45 artists who recorded the worldwide charity song "We Are the World to support hunger victims in Africa. On January 1987, Kenny Rogers co-hosted the American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Through 1988 to 1990, Kenny Rogers had reached the pinnacle of his career and new artists like Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson were emerging with a frightening force. During that time, he released some albums but, while he still made the top 20, he was no longer the heavy hitter he had been previously. January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa), was the name under which forty-five U.S. artists, led by Harry Belafonte, Kenny Rogers, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single We Are the World in 1985. ... We Are the World is a 1985 song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, produced and conducted by Quincy Jones and recorded by a supergroup of popular musicians billed as USA for Africa. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... The American Music Awards show is one of four annual major American music awards shows (the others being the Billboard Music Awards, the Grammy Awards, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American country music singer anmd songwriter, who became one of the best-selling country musicians of the 1990s. ...

Outside Music

Like Elvis Presley, he also had success as an actor. His 1982 movie Six Pack, in which he played a race-car driver, took more than $20 million at the US box office, while made-for-TV movies such as The Gambler, Christmas in America, and Coward of the County (based on hit songs of his) topped ratings lists. As an entrepreneur, he collaborated with former Kentucky Fried Chicken CEO John Y. Brown, Jr. in 1991 to start up the restaurant chain Kenny Rogers Roasters. The chicken and ribs chain, which is similar to Boston Market, was famously featured in an episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld called "The Chicken Roaster," when Kramer tried to have a location of the restaurant put out of business due to its annoying red neon light. On the November 27, 1997, broadcast of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Rogers could not pick his chicken out in a taste test, claiming he preferred "greasy burgers." Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called The King of Rock n Roll or simply The King, was an American singer, musician and actor. ... Six Pack is a 1982 comedy/drama film starring Kenny Rogers, Diane Lane, Erin Gray, Anthony Michael Hall, and Barry Corbin, directed by Daniel Petrie. ... KFC (full name Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a division of Yum! Brands, Inc. ... John Young Brown Jr. ... Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to order, to be consumed on the premises. ... A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants, typically with the same name in many different locations either under shared corporate ownership (e. ... Kenny Rogers Roasters is an oven-cooked chicken restaurant started in 1991 in the United States by country music musician Kenny Rogers and former Kentucky Fried Chicken owner and original developer John Y. Brown, Jr. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the bones called ribs. ... Boston Market (formerly Boston Chicken), headquartered in Golden, Colorado, is a chain of American fast-food restaurants that was founded in December 1985, in Newton, Massachusetts. ... NBC (an acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Seinfeld is an Emmy Award-winning United States based television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, running a total of nine seasons. ... The Chicken Roaster is the 142nd episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. ... Cosmo Kramer is a fictional character on the United States based television sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), played by Michael Richards. ... General Name, Symbol, Number neon, Ne, 10 Chemical series noble gases Group, Period, Block 18, 2, p Appearance colorless Standard atomic weight 20. ... Late Night is an American late night television talk show on NBC featuring varied comedic material and celebrity interviews. ...

Kenny Rogers and his restaurant were subjects of comedy from MADtv, especially the impersonation done by Will Sasso; the skit of the faux-Rogers hosting Jackass became popular on the Internet. Sasso had him making noises such as "Ding Ding Ding Di da Ding Ding Ding" and getting sloppily drunk. MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series based on the humor magazine, Mad. ... Will Sasso (born May 24, 1975) is a Canadian comic actor. ... Jackass is an American television series, originally shown on MTV from 2000 to 2002, featuring people performing various dangerous, ridiculous, and self-injuring stunts and pranks. ...

Kenny is also the inspiration behind one of the most popular pop culture websites on the Internet, MenWhoLookLikeKennyRogers.com (see link at bottom of page). The site features close to a thousand photos of men who look like the real Kenny Rogers, as well as tips on how to look like Kenny, places to spot Kenny look-alikes, and even a Kenny of the Month and sells t-shirts and buttons. Kenny himself has even gone on the record with his favorite "Kennys" on the site (Hot Tub Kenny being his favorite) and the site has been featured in Time, People, Esquire, The National Enquirer, and many, many more.

Rogers also works with property, doing construction work and then selling the property, as well as admitting he does a lot of DIY work at his own home. He is also a photographer, having had three books of his work published. See also: DIY Network, a cable TV network. ... This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ...

Worldwide success

His success is worldwide. For example, he has played many well-attended concerts in Europe and the Far East, where he has charted numerous singles and albums from the 1970s through to the present day. New Zealand was a big stronghold during his First Edition days, being the only country to give them the acclaim they truly deserved. His 1985 greatest-hits package, The Kenny Rogers Story, reached #1 on the British country chart — and four years later (in 1989), was still at #2. He also charted internationally during that time with a series of studio albums.

In 1983, Rogers signed to RCA for a record breaking US$20 million advance. Although, following the success of his label debut, the Bee Gees produced Eyes That See In The Dark album, Rogers wasn't doing as well as in previous years. Nonetheless, he was still among the world's top stars. Between 1983 and 1990 alone he charted no less than 23 top 40 singles and 10 top 40 albums. RCAs logo as seen today on many products. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers — Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb — that became one of the most successful musical acts of all time. ...

Although in the 1990s with the emergence of Garth Brooks, it was noted that this new talent was selling records like no one else had ever in country music, Rogers was nonetheless a dominant force in mainstream music and at his height, was charting singles (and albums) which were racing up the top 40 on the pop charts around the world, songs like "Lucille", "Coward of the County", "The Gambler" and "Lady" became favorites and have remained such, making Rogers one of the most popular entertainers on the touring circuit. The 1990s decade refers to the years from the start of 1990 to the end of 1999. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Lucille is a popular single by Kenny Rogers. ... Coward of the County is a 1980 song performed by Kenny Rogers, and written by Roger Bowling. ...

Success in the 1990s

In the 1990s Rogers continued to chart with singles such as "Crazy In Love", "If You Want To Find Love" and "The Greatest". From 1991 to 1994, Rogers hosted The Real West on A&E, and on The History Channel since 1995 (Reruns only on The History Channel.). In 1994, Rogers released his "dream" album titled Timepiece on Atlantic Records. It consisted of 30's and 40's jazz standards; it was the type of music he performed in his early days with The Bobby Doyle Three in Houston. In 1996 he released an album Vote For Love where the public requested their favorite love songs and Kenny performed the songs (several of his own hits were in there). The album was the first for the TV shopping channel QVC's record label, onQ Music. The album, sold exclusively by QVC, was a huge success and was later issued in stores under a variety of different titles. It reached #1 in the UK country charts under the title Love Songs (a title also used for various compilations) and also crossed over into the mainstream charts. Biography is one of A&Es longest-running and most popular programs. ... For the Canadian equivalent of this channel, see History Television. ...

In 1999 Rogers scored with the single "The Greatest". A song about life from a child's point of view (looked at through a baseball game). The song reached the top 40 of Billboard's Country singles chart and was a Country Music Television Number One video. It was on the Rogers' album "She Rides Wild Horses" the following year (itself a top 10 success). Country Music Television, or CMT as it usually called, is an American country music oriented cable television channel. ...

He has been married five times. His fourth wife was the actress Marianne Gordon Rogers. His current wife is the former Wanda Miller. He has a daughter and four sons, including twins born while Rogers was 65.

Beyond the 1990s

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In the 21st century, Rogers was back at #1 for the first time in almost a decade with the 2000 single "Buy Me a Rose", making him, at 61, the oldest artist in the history of country music to reach the chart summit. In doing so, he broke a 26-year-old record held by Hank Snow (who, in April 1974, was 59 years and 11 months old when he scored with "Hello Love"). Rogers held the record until 2003, when 70-year-old Willie Nelson became the oldest artist to have a No. 1 on the country charts with his duet with Toby Keith, "Beer For My Horses." Image File history File links Kenny Rogers - Nov 2004 Photo by Alan C. Teeple File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Kenny Rogers - Nov 2004 Photo by Alan C. Teeple File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Clarence Eugene Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999), better known as Hank Snow, was a Hall of Fame country music singer and songwriter. ... Willie Nelson (born William Hugh Nelson, 30 April 1933) is an American entertainer and songwriter, born and raised in Abbott, Texas. ... Toby Keith Covel (born July 8, 1961) is an American country singer and song writer. ...

Rogers also released the critically acclaimed album Back to the Well.

Although Rogers didn't record new albums for a couple of years, he continued to have success in many countries with more greatest hits packages. In 2004 42 Ultimate Hits, which was the first hits collection to span his days with the First Edition to the present, reached Number 6 on the American country charts and went gold. In 2005 The Very Best of Kenny Rogers, a double album, sold well in Europe. It was the first new solo Kenny Rogers hits album to reach the United Kingdom for over a decade, despite many compilations there that were not true hits packages. This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ...

Rogers also signed with Capitol Nashville Records and had more success with the TV advertised release 21 Number Ones in January 2006. Although this CD did contain 21 chart-toppers as the title claims (recorded between 1976 and the present day), this was not a complete collection of Rogers' #1 singles, omitting such singles as "Crazy in Love" and "What About Me?"

Much of his success was with Capitol from 1976 to 1983 (called United Artists/Liberty at the time). It is very rare for an artist of Rogers' age to be signed to a major label. Capitol followed 21 Number Ones with Rogers' new studio album, Water And Bridges, in March 2006 on the Capitol Nashville label. The first single from the album was "I Can't Unlove You" which peaked at #17 on the country charts, after spending over 6 months on the hit list, more than 50 years after he formed his first group and 38 years after his first major hit as leader of The First Edition. "I Can't Unlove You" was followed up with the second single from the album, "The Last Ten Years (Superman)" in September 2006. Then with the third single, "Calling Me" in early 2007 which features Don Henley. This song was also nominated for a Grammy Award at the 2007 Grammy Awards. I Cant Unlove You was the first single to be released by Kenny Rogers from his Water and Bridges album (Capitol Nashville, 2006). ... I Cant Unlove You was the first single to be released by Kenny Rogers from his Water and Bridges album (Capitol Nashville, 2006). ...

Selected discography

Albums

With The First Edition

• The First Edition (1967)
• The First Edition's Second (1968)
• The First Edition '69 (1969)
• Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (1969)
• Something's Burning (1970)
• Tell It All Brother (1970)
• Transition (1971)
• The Ballad of Calico (1972)
• Back Roads (1972)
• Rollin (1973)
• Monumental (1973)
• I'm Not Making Music For Money (1974 NZ only release with exclusive tracks)

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Solo

• Love Lifted Me (United Artists 1976)
• Kenny Rogers (United Artists 1976)
• Daytime Friends (United Artists 1977)
• Love Or Something Like It (United Artists 1978)
• The Gambler (United Artists 1978)
• Every Time Two Fools Collide (Kenny Rogers and Dottie West) (United Artists 1978)
• Kenny (United Artists 1979)
• Classics (Kenny Rogers and Dottie West) (United Artists 1979)
• Gideon (United Artists 1980)
• Christmas (Liberty 1981)
• Share Your Love (Liberty 1981)
• Love Will Turn You Around (Liberty 1982)
• We've Got Tonight (Liberty 1983)
• Eyes That See In The Dark (RCA 1983)
• What About Me? (Kenny Rogers, James Ingram and Kim Carnes) (RCA 1984)
• Once Upon a Christmas (Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton) (RCA 1984)
• The Heart Of The Matter (RCA 1985)
• Love Is What We Make It (Liberty 1985) (contains previously unreleased recordings from Kenny's UA/Liberty years)
• They Don't Make Them Like They Used To (RCA 1986)
• I Prefer The Moonlight (RCA 1987)
• Something Inside So Strong (Reprise 1989)
• Christmas In America (Reprise 1989)
• Love Is Strange (Reprise 1990)
• Back Home Again (Reprise 1991)
• If Only My Heart Had A Voice (Giant 1993)
• Timepiece (Orchestral Sessions with David Foster) (Atlantic 1994)
• Vote For Love (onQ 1996)
• The Gift (Magnatone 1996) (includes the group GLAD on "Sweet Little Jesus Boy")
• Across My Heart (Magnatone 1997)
• Christmas From The Heart (Dreamcatcher 1998)
• She Rides Wild Horses (Dreamcatcher 1999)
• There You Go Again (Dreamcatcher 2000)
• Live By Request (Dreamcatcher 2001)
• Back To The Well (Dreamcatcher 2003)
• Water & Bridges (Capitol Nashville 2006)

The Gambler is one of Kenny Rogers most popular albums, selling in excess of 35 million copies since it was first released by United Artists in 1978 (see 1978 in country music). ... Once Upon a Christmas was a 1984 holiday album by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers. ... GLAD is one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian pop/rock and a cappella music. ... She Rides Wild Horses is an album by Kenny Rogers. ...

Compilations

• Greatest Hits (1971) (Kenny Rogers And The First Edition)
• Ten Years Of Gold (1977, features re-recordings of First Edition hits, plus early solo hits)
• The Kenny Rogers Singles Album (U.K release of Ten Years Of Gold with Bonus tracks, 1979)
• The Best Of Kenny Rogers (1979)
• Shine On (European Release, 1980)
• Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits (1980)
• Lady (U.K release of 1980's Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits album, 1981)
• Twenty Greatest Hits (1983)
• The Kenny Rogers Story — 20 Golden Greats (U.K release, 1985)
• 60's Revisited (1980s, with the 1st edition)
• Greatest Hits (1988)
• 20 Great Years (1990)
• The Very Best Of Kenny Rogers (1990)
• The Best Of Kenny Rogers (1999)
• Kenny Rogers — Collection (2000)
• Through The Years — 20 Greatest Hits (2001)
• Legends — The Kenny Rogers and The First Edition Collection (2003)
• 42 Ultimate Hits (2004)
• The Very Best Of Kenny Rogers (2 CD set, European release, 2005)
• 21 Number One Hits (2006)
• Golden Legends — Kenny Rogers (2006)

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Box Sets

• Greatest Hits and Finest Performances (5 L.P set) (1986)
• Through The Years: A Retrospective (4 CD) (1999)
• Triple Treasures (3 CD Box set featuring recordings made between 1967 and 1998) (2002)

Charted Singles With the First Edition

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Noteworthy Singles

Number One Singles

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• Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (1969) — US Pop #6, C & W #39, AC #6, #1 UK (NME chart).
• Lucille (1977) — US Pop #5, C&W #1, AC #10 (Gold); UK #1
• Daytime Friends (1977) — US Pop #28, C&W #1, AC #13; UK #39
• Every Time Two Fools Collide (1978, with Dottie West) — US Pop #101, C&W #1, AC #44
• Love Or Something Like It (1978) — US Pop #32, C&W #1
• The Gambler (1978) — US Pop #16, C&W #1, AC #3
• All I Ever Need Is You (1979, with Dottie West) — US Pop #102, C&W #1, AC #38
• She Believes In Me (1979) — US Pop #5, C&W #1, AC #1 (Gold), UK #42
• You Decorated My Life (1979) — US Pop #7, C&W #1, AC #2
• Coward of the County (1979) — US Pop #3, C&W #1, AC #5 (Gold); UK #1
• Lady (1980) — US Pop, C&W and AC #1 (Gold); UK #12
• What Are We Doin' In Love (1981, with Dottie West) — US Pop #14, C&W #1, AC #7
• I Don't Need You (1981) — US Pop #3, C&W and AC #1
• Share Your Love With Me (1981) — US Pop #13, C&W #5, AC #1
• Through the Years (1981) — US Pop #13, C&W #5, AC #1
• Love Will Turn You Around (1982) — US Pop #13, C&W and AC #1
• We've Got Tonight (1983, with Sheena Easton) — US Pop #6, C&W #1, AC #2; UK #28
• Islands in the Stream (1983, with Dolly Parton) — US Pop, C&W and AC #1 (Platinum); UK #7
• What About Me? (1984, with Kim Carnes and James Ingram) — US Pop #15, C&W #70, AC #1, R&B #57
• Crazy (1985) — US Pop #79, C&W #1, AC #5 <
• Real Love (1985, with Dolly Parton) — US Pop #91, C&W #1
• Morning Desire (1985) — US Pop #72, C&W #1, AC #8
• Tomb of the Unknown Love (1986) — US C&W #1
• Make No Mistake, She's Mine (1987, with Ronnie Milsap) — US C&W #1, AC #42
• Buy Me a Rose (2000, with Alison Krauss and Billy Dean) — US Pop #40, C&W #1

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Charted Singles As a Solo Artist

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All I Ever Need Is You was a 1971 single released by Sonny and Cher, a rock and roll duo comprised of Sonny Bono and Cher. ... Dottie West, born Dorothy Marie Marsh (October 11, 1932 in McMinnville, Tennessee–September 4, 1991 in Nashville, Tennessee) was a United States country music singer. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... She Believes In Me is a country pop song, recorded by American star singer Kenny Rogers on his very popular 1978 album The Gambler. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... Dottie West, born Dorothy Marie Marsh (October 11, 1932 in McMinnville, Tennessee–September 4, 1991 in Nashville, Tennessee) was a United States country music singer. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 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Other Top 20 Singles

• Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (1968) — US Pop #5
• But You Know I Love You (1969) — US Pop #19, AC #18
• Something's Burnin' (1970) — US Pop #11
• Tell It All Brother (1970) — US Pop #17, AC #8
• Someone Who Cares (1971) — US Pop #51, AC #4
• Love Lifted Me (1976) — US Pop #97, C & W #19
• Sweet Music Man (1977) — US Pop #44, C & W #9, AC #8
• Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight (1978, with Dottie West) — C & W #2
• Till I Can Make It On My Own (1979, with Dottie West) — C & W #3
• Don't Fall In Love With a Dreamer (1980, with Kim Carnes) — US Pop #4, C&W #3, AC #2
• Love the World Away (1980) — US Pop #14, C & W #4, AC #8
• Blaze of Glory (1981) — US Pop #66, C&W #9, AC #25
• A Love Song (1982) — US Pop #47, C & W #3, AC #10
• All My Life (1983) — US Pop #37, C & W #13, AC #2
• Scarlet Fever (1983) — US Pop #94, C & W #5
• Buried Treasure (1984) — C & W #3
• This Woman (1984) — US Pop #23, AC #2
• Eyes That See In the Dark (1984) — US Pop #79, C&W #30, AC #4; UK #61
• Evening Star (1984) — C & W #11
• They Don't Make Them Like They Used To (1986) — US AC #10, C & W #53
• I Prefer The Moonlight(1987) — C & W #2
• Twenty Years Ago (1987) — US Country #2, US AC #15
• The Factory (1988) — C & W #6
• The Vows Go Unbroken(Always True To You) (1989) — C & W #8
• If I Knew Then What I Know Now (1990, with Gladys Knight) — US AC #10
• Crazy In Love (1990) — US AC #9
• If You Wanna Find Love (1992) — C & W #11
• I Can't Unlove You (2006) — US C&W #17

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Other Noteworthy Songs

• "Reuben James" (#26 pop in 1969)
• "Shine On Ruby Mountain"
• "Elvira"
• "Just Remember You're My Sunshine"
• "Today, I Started Loving You Again"
• "The Hoodooin' Of Miss Fanny Deberry"
• "Heed The Call" (#33 pop in 1970)
• "While The Feeling's Good"
• "Laura (What's He Got I Ain't Got)"
• "Puttin' in Overtime At Home"
• "Sail Away"
• "The Long Arm Of The Law"
• "I Want A Son"
• "Maybe You Should Know"
• "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight" (with Dottie West)
• "Just The Thought Of Losing You"
• "Love Is What We Make It"
• "The Pride Is Back" (with Nickie Ryder)
• "Don't Look In My Eyes"
• "Our Perfect Song"
• "The Stranger"
• "Two Hearts, One Love"
• "The Factory"
• "When Your Put Your Heart In It"
• "(Something Inside) So Strong"
• "I Prefer The Moonlight"
• "After All This Time"
• "The Vows Go Unbroken (Always True To You)"
• "There Lies The Difference"
• "What I Did For Love"
• "Some Prisons Don't Have Walls"
• "If You Want To Find Love"
• "The Greatest"
• "Planet Texas"
• "Slow Dance More"
• "There You Go Again"
• "Homeland"
• "Harder Cards"
• "My World Is Over"
• "The Last Ten Years (Superman)"
• "We've Got It All" (Owned by the The Walt Disney Company, this song was written for the TV sitcom Growing Pains. It's only other known use was for the finale episode of the TV sitcom, Home Improvement. The single was released by The Walt Disney Company for promotional purposes only.)[4]

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Awards

• 2005: CMT — Favorite All-Time Country Duet ("Islands in the Stream" with Dolly Parton)
• 2004: CMT — "Ruby Don't Take your Love To Town" — Greatest Cheating Song #6.
• 2003: International Entertainment Buyers Association — Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2003: CMT — Greatest Male Artist #19.
• 2003: CMT — "The Gambler" Greatest Song #26.
• 1999: BBC — Greatest Country Singer #2
• 2000: Country Weekly Presents the TNN Music Awards — Career Achievement Award
• 1988: Grammy — Best Country Vocal Performance, Duet
• 1986 USA Today/ People — Favorite Singer Of All-Time
• 1985: American Music Awards — Favorite Album
• 1985: American Music Awards — Favorite Male Artist
• 1983: Academy of Country Music — Single of the Year
• 1983: Academy of Country Music — Top Vocal Duet
• 1983: American Music Awards — Favorite Male Artist
• 1983: American Music Awards — Favorite Single
• 1983: ASCAP — Song of the Year
• 1982: American Music Awards — Favorite Album
• 1981: American Music Awards — Favorite Album
• 1981: American Music Awards — Favorite Male Artist
• 1981: American Music Awards — Favorite Single
• 1980: American Music Awards — Favorite Album
• 1980: American Music Awards — Favorite Male Artist
• 1980: Music City News Country — Single of the Year
• 1979: American Music Awards — Favorite Album
• 1979: American Music Awards — Favorite Male Artist
• 1979: CMA — Album of the Year
• 1979: CMA — Male Vocalist of the Year
• 1979: CMA — Vocal Duo of the Year
• 1979: Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance ("The Gambler")
• 1979: Music City News Country — Male Artist of the Year
• 1979: Music City News Country — Single of the Year
• 1978: Academy of Country Music — Entertainer of the Year
• 1978: Academy of Country Music — Top Male Vocalist
• 1978: American Music Awards — Favorite Single
• 1978: CMA — Vocal Duo of the Year
• 1977: Academy of Country Music — Album of the Year
• 1977: Academy of Country Music — Single of the Year
• 1977: Academy of Country Music — Song of the Year
• 1977: Academy of Country Music — Top Male Vocalist
• 1977: CMA — Single of the Year
• 1977: Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance ("Lucille")

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Trivia

• Rogers' video for his 1999 hit, "The Greatest" features clips from the following major league players in chronological order: Roger Maris, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and Mark McGwire (clip was from just before he hit his 61st home run in his 70 home run 1998 season).
• He was the first country music artist to receive 20 RIAA gold albums.
• It is rare for an artist of Rogers' age to be signed to a major label^{[citation needed]}; he is currently signed to Capitol Records.
• Cites Dottie West as one of the best duet partners he ever worked with.
• Rogers & Lionel Richie starred in a CMT "Crossroads" TV special in November 2005. Highlights of the show included the two singing each other’s hits as duets and an informative insight into their friendship both inside and outside of the music world.
• Rogers & The First Edition's Greatest Hits album, first issued in 1971, featured a recording of Mac Davis' I Believe In Music, a previously unissued recording, thus making it one of the first greatest hits collections to contain new material, a standard practice in the music industry today.
• Performed on USA for Africa's fundraising single, We Are the World in 1985.
• Roger's The Gambler is the most successful television movie series of all-time, with four sequels.
• His album The Gambler topped the Country music charts in the United States of America for 23 weeks in 1978, while his next solo offering, Kenny, topped the charts for 25 weeks.
• Rogers sang the CBS promo song during its "We've Got The Touch" campaign in 1985.
• Rogers appeared on the television show American Idol on April 4th and 5th, 2006. While on the program, Kenny assisted the contestants in choosing country songs to perform.
• Rogers was often parodied on the Fox sketch comedy show MADtv by comedic actor Will Sasso. Rogers was portrayed as a giant overweight, foul-mouthed alcoholic with an exaggerated laugh. He appeared in such sketches as "Kenny Roger's 'Jackass'", "Kenny Roger's 'Gladiator'" and "Fear Factor".
• In the late 1980s, much controversy developed over alleged prank phone calls made by Kenny Rogers. A former lover alleged that Rogers made explicit, lewd phone calls to her from a payphone.
• Rogers is a fan of the Detroit Tigers. Currently, pitcher Kenny "The Gambler" Rogers is a member of the Tigers.
• Rogers has had hair transplants, and also appeared in testimonial advertising for them.
• Rogers is the official spokesperson/mascot for Barona Casino and Resort, located in San Diego, CA.
• Benny Hill spoofed Kenny, in a shtick in which he played guitar--Benny was an accomplished musician in his own right. To start his song off, he was shown facing away from the camera. His hair and beard were an exaggerated version of Rogers', but his voice mimicked Rogers' perfectly, in a song titled "I Just want to Be in Your Band."

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Record Labels

The following is a list of record labels to which Rogers signed.

• Cue (1950s, with the band The Scholars and also as a solo singer)
• Carlton (1958, solo deal)
• KenLee (one single, label owned by Rogers and his brother Lelan)
• Columbia (1960s, with jazz combo, The Bobby Doyle Three)
• Reprise (1967, with The First Edition, all material recorded during this time has since been acquired by Universal Music)
• Jolly Rogers (1973, with The First Edition, label was owned by Rogers)
• United Artists (1975, solo deal)
• Liberty (1980, United Artists merged into EMI/Capitol in 1980; some pressings of albums were issued on Capitol's imprint labels, EMI, EMI America, and EMI Manhattan.)
• RCA (1983, solo deal)
• Reprise (1989, solo deal)
• Giant (1993, one solo album)
• Atlantic (1994, one solo album)
• onQ Music (1996, one solo album; onQ Music was created by the QVC Network to release exclusive albums for sale only on QVC. The first onQ release was Rogers' Vote For Love, a two-disc set that would later become available in standard retail stores.)
• Magnatone (1996, solo deal)
• Dreamcatcher (1998, solo deal; Dreamcatcher was owned and run by Rogers and Jim Mazza for the purpose of releasing Rogers albums and certain reissues of Rogers' catalog. Other artists such as Marshall Dyllon and Randy Dorman were released on Dreamcatcher Records, also. The label closed in 2004)
• Capitol Nashville (2004, solo deal)

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See also

• Brady Hawkes

Brady Hawkes is a fictional old-west gambler portrayed by Kenny Rogers in the 1980 made-for-tv movie The Gambler. ...

External links

• Official Kenny Rogers Website
• Kenny Rogers Music Videos
• allmusic Entry
• Kenny Rogers at The Internet Movie Database
• Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers
• Review Kenny Rogers – Water & Bridges