Kenny is the seventh studio album by Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...

, released in 1979. It includes the singles "Coward of the County" and "You Decorated My Life

You Decorated My Life

"You Decorated My Life" is the title of a song written by Debbie Hupp and Bob Morrison, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in September 1979 as the lead single from his album Kenny. It was a number-one hit on the Billboard Country Singles chart and peaked at...

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"Tulsa Turnaround" is a reworking of an earlier song Rogers recorded with The First Edition

The First Edition

The First Edition was a country music/rock band. Its stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones and Terry Williams...

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The album reached #5 in the US pop charts and #1 in the country charts (where it stayed for a total of 25 weeks). In the UK, it reached the top 10 on the pop charts. 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.

In the sleevenotes for the 2009 reissue on the Edsel record label, biographer Chris Bolton notes that this album "does its best to represent every musical personality of Kenny Rogers." Stephen Thomas Erlewine states that the album mixes music styles from Country to Disco..

This album has sold 22 million copies world-wide.

Track listing

1. "You Turn the Light On" 3:03 (L. Anderson, Sean Geyer)
2. "You Decorated My Life
   You Decorated My Life
   "You Decorated My Life" is the title of a song written by Debbie Hupp and Bob Morrison, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in September 1979 as the lead single from his album Kenny. It was a number-one hit on the Billboard Country Singles chart and peaked at...
   
   " 3:38 (Deborah Kay Hupp, Robert E. Morrison)
3. "She's a Mystery" 2:54 (Larry Keith, Steve Pippin)
4. "Goodbye Marie
   Goodbye Marie
   "Goodbye Marie" is a country-pop song written by Mel McDaniel and Dennis Linde. The song is about a man who has to leave his lover to head for "the lonesome highway" back to his home in Houston, Texas....
   
   " 2:47 (Dennis Linde
   Dennis Linde
   Dennis Linde was an American singer and songwriter whose work was primarily in country musicHe is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, "Burning Love"...
   
   , Mel McDaniel
   Mel McDaniel
   Mel McDaniel was an American country music artist. His chart making years were mainly the 1980s and his hits from that era include "Louisiana Saturday Night", "Big Ole Brew", "Stand Up", the Number One "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On", "I Call It Love", "Stand on It", and a remake of Chuck Berry's...
   
   )
5. "Tulsa Turnaround" 2:52 (Larry Collins, Paul Cotton, Alex Harvey
   Alex Harvey (musician)
   Alex Harvey was a Scottish rock musician. With The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, he built a reputation as an exciting live performer during the 1970s glam rock era.-Biography:...
   
   )
6. "I Want to Make You Smile" 3:20 (G.G. Allin)
7. "Santiago Midnight Moonlight" 3:14 (John Porter McMeans)
8. "One Man's Woman" 3:45 (Steve Glassmeyer)
9. "In and Out of Your Heart" 3:23 (Thomas Cain, Randy Cullers, Dennis Linde, Alan Rush )
10. "Old Folks" 2:44 (Willard Robison
    Willard Robison
    Willard Robison was an American composer of popular song. Born in Shelbina, Missouri, his songs reflect a rural, melancholy theme steeped in Americana. Their warm style has drawn comparison to Hoagy Carmichael...
    
    )
11. "Coward of the County" 4:22 Roger D. Bowling, Billy Ed Wheeler

Chart performance

Chart (1979)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	5
Canadian RPM Country Albums	1
Canadian RPM Top Albums	1