The Kenny Rogers Singles Album
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Overview
This album was issued in the UKUnited Kingdom
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by United Artists Records
United Artists Records
United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 initially to distribute records of its movie soundtracks, though it soon branched out into recording music of a number of different genres.-History:...
in 1979 and was the second Kenny Rogers album to reach the pop UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
Top 20 http://www.everyhit.com/. It featured every one of his singles to make the UK Pop Top 75
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
to that point. It is fairly similar to 1977's Ten Years Of Gold
Ten Years Of Gold
-Overview:As his fourth solo album, Ten Years of Gold is a collection of ten songs spanning the last decade. The album features solo reworkings of hits Kenny had with The First Edition. Though Kenny had already scored three other solo hits, "Lucille", "Daytime Friends", "Love Lifted Me" and "While...
album issued in the USA, but it featured four more songs that were hits in 1978, such as "The Gambler" and "She Believes In Me".
In Australia
Australia
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, the album was issued with the same track listing and album art and was known as The Best of Kenny Rogers.
Side 1
- "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To TownRuby, Don't Take Your Love To Town"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" is a song written by Mel Tillis. The song was made famous by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition in 1969. "Ruby" was originally recorded in 1967 by Johnny Darrell, who scored a number nine country hit with it that year....
" (Mel Tillis) [2:49]
(original version from the 1969 album Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to TownRuby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (album)Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town is the fourth album by the group The First Edition. This was the first album to credit the group as Kenny Rogers & the First Edition.-Track listing:#"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town"...
with The First EditionThe First EditionThe First Edition was a country music/rock band. Its stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones and Terry Williams...
) - "Reuben JamesReuben JamesReuben James was a Boatswain's Mate of the United States Navy, famous for his heroism in the Barbary Wars.-Career:...
" (Barry Etris/Alex Harvey) [2:38]
(original version from the 1969 album Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to TownRuby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (album)Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town is the fourth album by the group The First Edition. This was the first album to credit the group as Kenny Rogers & the First Edition.-Track listing:#"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town"...
with The First EditionThe First EditionThe First Edition was a country music/rock band. Its stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones and Terry Williams...
) - "But You Know I Love YouBut You Know I Love You"But You Know I Love You" is a song written by Mike Settle, which was a 1969 pop hit for The First Edition, a group that included Settle and Kenny Rogers. Evie Sands recorded the song for her 1970 album Any Way That You Want Me...
" (Mike Settle) [3:13]
(original version from the 1969 album The First Edition '69 with The First EditionThe First EditionThe First Edition was a country music/rock band. Its stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones and Terry Williams...
) - "Something's BurningSomething's BurningSomething's Burning is the fifth album by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, released in 1970.-Singles:Only one single was issued from the album, the title song "Something's Burning" with "Momma's Waiting" on the flip side...
" (Mac Davis) [4:18]
(original version from the 1970 album Something's BurningSomething's BurningSomething's Burning is the fifth album by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, released in 1970.-Singles:Only one single was issued from the album, the title song "Something's Burning" with "Momma's Waiting" on the flip side...
with The First EditionThe First EditionThe First Edition was a country music/rock band. Its stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones and Terry Williams...
) - "Just Dropped In" (Mickey Newbury) [3:18]
(original version from the 1967 album The First EditionThe First Edition (album)The First Edition is the debut album by the group The First Edition. Kenny Rogers sang the lead vocals on two tracks "Just Dropped In ", and "Dream On"...
with The First EditionThe First EditionThe First Edition was a country music/rock band. Its stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones and Terry Williams...
) - "LucilleLucille (Kenny Rogers song)"Lucille" is the title of a ballad written by Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum, and recorded by Kenny Rogers. It was released in January 1977 as the second and final single from the album Kenny Rogers. The song is about a man in a bar that meets a woman who has left her husband...
" (Roger Bowling/Hal Bynum) [3:38]
(from the 1977 album Kenny RogersKenny Rogers (1977 album)Kenny Rogers is the title of Kenny Rogers' second solo album for United Artists Records, released worldwide in 1977. The album marked his first major solo success following the minor success of Love Lifted Me in 1976....
) - "Daytime FriendsDaytime FriendsDaytime Friends is the title of Kenny Rogers' third solo album for United Artists Records, released worldwide in 1977. It was his second major success following the break-up of The First Edition in 1976 Daytime Friends is the title of Kenny Rogers' third solo album for United Artists Records,...
" (Ben Peters) [3:07]
(from the 1977 album Daytime FriendsDaytime FriendsDaytime Friends is the title of Kenny Rogers' third solo album for United Artists Records, released worldwide in 1977. It was his second major success following the break-up of The First Edition in 1976 Daytime Friends is the title of Kenny Rogers' third solo album for United Artists Records,...
)
Side 2
- "While The Feeling's Good" (Bowling/Freddie Hart) [4:00]
(from the 1976 album Love Lifted MeLove Lifted MeLove Lifted Me is the title of Kenny Rogers' first solo album for United Artists Records, released in 1976. This is Rogers' first solo effort following the break-up of The First Edition earlier that year....
) - "Love Lifted MeLove Lifted MeLove Lifted Me is the title of Kenny Rogers' first solo album for United Artists Records, released in 1976. This is Rogers' first solo effort following the break-up of The First Edition earlier that year....
" (Preston Ross/Howard Smith) [3:44]
(from the 1976 album Love Lifted MeLove Lifted MeLove Lifted Me is the title of Kenny Rogers' first solo album for United Artists Records, released in 1976. This is Rogers' first solo effort following the break-up of The First Edition earlier that year....
) - "Today I Started Loving You Again" (Merle Haggard/Bonnie Owens) [3:04]
(original version from the 1972 album Back Roads with The First EditionThe First EditionThe First Edition was a country music/rock band. Its stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones and Terry Williams...
) - "Love Or Something Like ItLove Or Something Like It (song)"Love or Something Like It" is the title of a 1978 hit single performed by Kenny Rogers. The song was written by Rogers and Steven Glassmeyer and would be Kenny Rogers' third number one on the country chart...
" (Steve Glassmeyer/Rogers) [2:52]
(from the 1978 album Love or Something Like ItLove or Something Like ItLove or Something Like It is the fifth solo album by country music superstar Kenny Rogers, released in 1978. It was Rogers' fourth #1 hit album.-Overview:The album's title cut also topped the charts...
) - "Sail Away" (Rafe Van Hoy) [3:30]
(from the 1978 album Love or Something Like ItLove or Something Like ItLove or Something Like It is the fifth solo album by country music superstar Kenny Rogers, released in 1978. It was Rogers' fourth #1 hit album.-Overview:The album's title cut also topped the charts...
) - "The GamblerThe Gambler (song)"The Gambler" is the title of a song written by Don Schlitz and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in November 1978 as the title track from his album The Gambler which won him the Grammy award for best male country vocal performance in 1980. Bobby Bare had...
" (Don Schlitz) [3:32]
(from the 1978 album The GamblerThe Gambler (album)The Gambler is the sixth studio album by Kenny Rogers', released by United Artists in 1978. One of his most popular, it has established Rogers' status as one of the most successful artists of the 1970s and 1980s...
) - "She Believes In Me" (Steve Gibb) [4:14]
(from the 1978 album The GamblerThe Gambler (album)The Gambler is the sixth studio album by Kenny Rogers', released by United Artists in 1978. One of his most popular, it has established Rogers' status as one of the most successful artists of the 1970s and 1980s...
)
See also
- Ten Years Of GoldTen Years Of Gold-Overview:As his fourth solo album, Ten Years of Gold is a collection of ten songs spanning the last decade. The album features solo reworkings of hits Kenny had with The First Edition. Though Kenny had already scored three other solo hits, "Lucille", "Daytime Friends", "Love Lifted Me" and "While...
- The Kenny Rogers StoryThe Kenny Rogers Story-Overview:As one of the many collections issued by country music singer Kenny Rogers, The Kenny Rogers Story: 20 Golden Hits was issued in the United Kingdom in 1985...