Charles Kindred "Kin" Vassy was a singer-songwriter who in addition to his solo recordings also recorded with other artists, most notably Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers

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

, Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

 and Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

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In the 1960s, Vassy was a member of The Back Porch Majority

The Back Porch Majority

The Back Porch Majority was an American folk music group founded by Randy Sparks in 1963. It was intended to be a rehearsal space for The New Christy Minstrels, another group Sparks had established in 1961, but it ended up becoming successful on its own...

. He left that group in 1969 and joined the country rock

Country rock

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 band Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. As a member of the group he recorded a top 30 album - Something's Burning

Something's Burning

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- and one of his own songs "Heed The Call" became a top 40 hit in 1970.

Vassy left the group in 1972 after The Ballad of Calico

The Ballad of Calico

The Ballad of Calico was the eighth studio album by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition and released as Reprise Records 6476. It reached #118 on the albums chart and produced one single, "School Teacher" which reach #91. The album was released in 1972. The album is a country-rock concept album about...

album and was replaced by Jimmy Hassell. He went on to work on both a solo career and as a session musician

Session musician

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. In 1980, Vassy released two singles for the ia record label

Record label

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: "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" and "Makes Me Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye." He moved to the Liberty Records

Liberty Records

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 label and released seven singles on it, including "When You Were Blue and I Was Green," which reached #21 on Hot Country Songs

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. Vassy continued to work with Rogers on various projects, such as his 1984 album What About Me?. Vassy also composed the song "Kentucky Homemade Christmas" for Rogers, released on Christmas (Liberty Records, 1981). Also in 1984, he performed a song with country-gospel singer Stella Parton

Stella Parton

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, for the Rhinestone soundtrack

Rhinestone (film soundtrack)

Rhinestone was a soundtrack album from the 1984 film starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone. The Dolly Parton-composed soundtrack produced two Top Ten country singles: "God Won't Get You" and the chart-topping "Tennessee Homesick Blues"...

, which Stella's sister Dolly

Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...

 had starred in.

Vassy died of cancer in 1994.

Discography

Year	Single	US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
1971	"Revelation"
1972	"Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
1979	"Do I Ever Cross Your Mind"	85
1980	"Makes Me Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye"	67
	"There's Nobody Like You"	88
1981	"Likin' Him and Lovin' You"	39
	"Sneakin' Around"	48
	"When You Were Blue and I Was Green"	21
1982	"Cast the First Stone"	78
	"Women in Love"	59
1983	"Tryin' to Love Two"	80