Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
These new versions were recorded at Jack Clement Recording Studio "B" using Kenny Rogers' road band "Bloodline" (listed below). Side 1 of the LP contained the all re-recordings. Though Kenny had already scored three other solo hits, "Lucille", "Daytime Friends", "While The Feeling's Good" and "Love Lifted Me" are all that represent his recent work.
Kenneth Ray Rogers (August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) was an American singer and songwriter. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. [1] Rogers was particularly popular with country audiences but also charted more than 120 hit singles across various genres, topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone.
The album reached the top five of the US Billboard album chart and #1 in the Country charts (where it stayed for a record total of 25 weeks). In the UK , it was a top ten album as well. In 2007, the album was issued as a two-album set on one CD, the other album included on the disc being the self-titled Kenny Rogers from 1976.
The Very Best of Kenny Rogers: Released: 1990; Label: Reprise — — 116 — — The Best of Kenny Rogers: Released: 1992; Label: CEMA — — — — — Daytime Friends – The Very Best of Kenny Rogers: Released: September 13, 1993; Label: EMI Classics; 25 190 — — 16 ARIA: Gold [9] Every Time Two Fools Collide – The Best of Kenny ...
Rogers later signed with a variety of labels after being dropped by Carlton and went on to worldwide fame in following decades. Despite his status as one of the music industry's best-selling artists, "That Crazy Feeling" was not re-released until it appeared on Rogers' career spanning box set Through the Years: A Retrospective in 1998.
20 Greatest Hits marks Rogers' third compilation album as a solo artist. This compilation covers the entire span of Rogers' glorious chart run through the late 1970s and early 1980s. Among the 20 tracks on the album is Rogers' early smash hit "Lucille", which made Rogers a world-famous solo superstar
The album reached No. 1 on both the Pop and Country charts in the US and featured three singles that were not included on any of Rogers' studio albums: "Lady" (written and produced specifically for Rogers by Lionel Richie, which was a No. 1 hit single in the same year), "Love The World Away" (a top five country and top 20 pop hit that was featured on the soundtrack of the 1980 film Urban ...
Reviewed in Billboard, it was written that the song "could easily repeat that success [of "Reuben James"] with this driving rocker, with an exceptional vocal workout by Rogers". [2] Cash Box wrote that the "grand vocal work and an instrumental that builds behind the scene give this new track a bright prospect for teen and adult programming".