Duets (Kenny Rogers album)
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Duets was a special 1984 album released by Liberty Records
from Kenny Rogers
. It was issued after Rogers left the label and signed to RCA
.
; side B begins with another classic duet, Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer
with Kim Carnes
from the 1980 album Gideon
. All of the remaining eight songs on the album are with Dottie West
and come from his two collaboration albums with West, including the 1978 hit Every Time Two Fools Collide from the 1978 album of the same name. However, their duet What Are We Doin' in Love
(a #1 country and top 40 pop hit) from 1981 is missing.
Also included on this album is Sonny and Cher's All I Ever Need Is You. Rogers' producer Larry Butler co-wrote (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song
with Chips Moman. 'Til I Can Make It on My Own
' and That's the Way It Could Have Been are two Tammy Wynette numbers.
While this is a compilation album, there was still a single released from it. Together Again
- one of the many duets with West and which first appeared on Classics - reached #19 on the U.S. country chart and #29 in Canada.
The album eventually was awarded with Platinum and Gold records in the U.S. and Canada respectively. The album reached #43 in the US country charts and #85 in the pop charts in 1984. It was one of three Kenny Rogers albums to chart that year, the others being new releases on RCA.
Liberty Records
Liberty Records was a United States-based record label. It was started by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous revivals.-1950s:...
from Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
. It was issued after Rogers left the label and signed to RCA
RCA Records
RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...
.
Overview
Duets opens with We've Got Tonight, a hit 1983 single with Sheena EastonSheena Easton
Sheena Easton is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop...
; side B begins with another classic duet, Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer
Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer
"Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" is the title of a song written by David Ellingson and Kim Carnes and recorded by Kenny Rogers and Carnes as a duet. It was released in March 1980 as the first single from Rogers' album Gideon. The song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and #1...
with Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes is an American singer-songwriter. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner noted for her distinctive raspy vocal style. Some people have called her "The Female Rod Stewart" due to her raspy voice....
from the 1980 album Gideon
Gideon (album)
Gideon is the eighth solo studio album by Kenny Rogers, issued by United Artists Records in 1980. It reached #1 on the country charts and the top 20 of the pop charts...
. All of the remaining eight songs on the album are with Dottie West
Dottie West
Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...
and come from his two collaboration albums with West, including the 1978 hit Every Time Two Fools Collide from the 1978 album of the same name. However, their duet What Are We Doin' in Love
What Are We Doin' In Love
"What Are We Doin' in Love" is a popular duet Countrypolitan song by Dottie West and Kenny Rogers.-Summary:This song had been the first duet hit for Kenny Rogers and Dottie West in over two years and "What Are We Doin' in Love" would be the duo third and final number one on the country chart ....
(a #1 country and top 40 pop hit) from 1981 is missing.
Also included on this album is Sonny and Cher's All I Ever Need Is You. Rogers' producer Larry Butler co-wrote (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song
(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song
" Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" is an American country and pop song made famous by B.J. Thomas.The song became Thomas' second number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1975. In addition, it ascended to the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart three weeks after...
with Chips Moman. 'Til I Can Make It on My Own
'Til I Can Make It on My Own
"Til I Can Make It on My Own" is a 1976 single by Tammy Wynette. "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" would be Tammy Wynette's fifteenth number one on the country charts. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the country charts. Kenny Rogers and Dottie West...
' and That's the Way It Could Have Been are two Tammy Wynette numbers.
While this is a compilation album, there was still a single released from it. Together Again
Together Again (Buck Owens song)
"Together Again" is a 1964 song by United States country singer and guitarist Buck Owens.The song, best known as the "B" side to Owens' No. 1 hit, "My Heart Skips a Beat", interrupted that song's run at Number One on the U.S. country charts...
- one of the many duets with West and which first appeared on Classics - reached #19 on the U.S. country chart and #29 in Canada.
The album eventually was awarded with Platinum and Gold records in the U.S. and Canada respectively. The album reached #43 in the US country charts and #85 in the pop charts in 1984. It was one of three Kenny Rogers albums to chart that year, the others being new releases on RCA.
Side 1
- "We've Got Tonight" - with Sheena EastonSheena EastonSheena Easton is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop...
(Bob SegerBob SegerRobert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist.As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s...
) [3:52]
(from the 1983 album We've Got TonightWe've Got Tonight (Kenny Rogers album)We've Got Tonight is the eleventh solo studio album by Kenny Rogers, released in 1983, and his last with Liberty Records before moving to RCA Records.-Overview:...
) - "Every Time Two Fools CollideEvery Time Two Fools Collide (song)"Every Time Two Fools Collide" is a country music song written by Jan Dyer and Jeff Tweel, and recorded by Kenny Rogers and Dottie West. Released in 1978, the song reached No...
" (John Dyes, Jeffrey M. Tweel) [3:01]
(from the 1978 album Every Time Two Fools CollideEvery Time Two Fools CollideEvery Time Two Fools Collide is the name of a duet album by country music singers Kenny Rogers and Dottie West.This was the duo's first album together. This was after Kenny Rogers entered the country market a couple of years back with his massive country pop hit "Lucille" in 1975, followed by a...
) - "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" is an American country and pop song made famous by B.J. Thomas.The song became Thomas' second number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1975. In addition, it ascended to the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart three weeks after...
" (Larry Butler, Chips MomanChips MomanLincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman is an American record producer, guitarist, and songwriter. As a record producer, Moman is known for recording Elvis Presley, Bobby Womack, Carla Thomas, and Merrilee Rush, as well as guiding the career of the Box Tops in Memphis, Tennessee during the 1960s...
) [3:11]
(from the 1979 album Classics) - "'Til I Can Make It on My Own'Til I Can Make It on My Own"Til I Can Make It on My Own" is a 1976 single by Tammy Wynette. "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" would be Tammy Wynette's fifteenth number one on the country charts. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the country charts. Kenny Rogers and Dottie West...
" (George RicheyGeorge RicheyGeorge Richey, born George Baker Richardson, was an American songwriter and record producer. He was married to country singer Tammy Wynette from 1978 until her death in 1998, they had no children together. He married television producer, Sheila Slaughter in 2001 until his death 2010, they had one...
, Billy SherrillBilly SherrillBilly Sherrill is a record producer and arranger who is most famous for his association with a number of country artists, most notably Tammy Wynette...
, Tammy WynetteTammy WynetteVirginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
) [3:20]
(from the 1979 album Classics) - "All I Ever Need Is You" (Jimmy Holiday, Eddie Reeves) [3:09]
(from the 1979 album Classics)
Side 2
- "Don't Fall in Love with a DreamerDon't Fall in Love with a Dreamer"Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" is the title of a song written by David Ellingson and Kim Carnes and recorded by Kenny Rogers and Carnes as a duet. It was released in March 1980 as the first single from Rogers' album Gideon. The song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and #1...
" - with Kim CarnesKim CarnesKim Carnes is an American singer-songwriter. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner noted for her distinctive raspy vocal style. Some people have called her "The Female Rod Stewart" due to her raspy voice....
(Kim Carnes, Dave Ellingson) [3:41]
(from the 1980 album GideonGideon (album)Gideon is the eighth solo studio album by Kenny Rogers, issued by United Artists Records in 1980. It reached #1 on the country charts and the top 20 of the pop charts...
) - "Baby I'm-A Want You" (David GatesDavid GatesDavid Gates is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame...
) [2:47]
(from the 1978 album Every Time Two Fools Collide) - "Together AgainTogether Again (Buck Owens song)"Together Again" is a 1964 song by United States country singer and guitarist Buck Owens.The song, best known as the "B" side to Owens' No. 1 hit, "My Heart Skips a Beat", interrupted that song's run at Number One on the U.S. country charts...
" (Buck OwensBuck OwensAlvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...
) [2:56]
(from the 1979 album Classics) - "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight" (Julie Didler, Casey Kelly) [2:22]
(from the 1978 album Every Time Two Fools Collide) - "That's the Way It Could Have Been" (Tammy Wynette) [3:04]
(from the 1978 album Every Time Two Fools Collide)
Chart performance
| Chart (1984) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 43 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 85 |
| Canadian RPM Top Albums | 64 |