Kenny Rogers

Alternate meaning: Kenny Rogers (baseball player)

Kenneth Donald Rogers (born August 21, 1938, in Houston, TX) is a prolific American country music singer, photographer, producer and actor.

His career began in the mid-1950's when he recorded a number with a doo-wop group. Many years of slow selling records and playing clubs followed for Rogers, until the formation of The First Edition in 1967 (Later renamed "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition). They chalked up a string of hits on both the pop and country charts, including "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town", "Reuben James" and "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)". The group split and Rogers launched his solo career in 1976. Rogers continued to be successful performing for both pop and country audiences; to date he has charted more than 60 hit singles (including upwards of 20 Number One's) and no less than 40 hit albums.

He collaborated with a developer of Kentucky Fried Chicken to start up the restaurant chain Kenny Rogers Roasters. Like many other successful singers, such as Elvis Presley , he also had success as an actor. His 1982 movie "Six Pack" (in which he played a racing car driver) took more than $20 million at the US box office, while made for TV movies such as "The Gambler", "Christmas In America and "Coward of the county" (based on hit songs of his) topped ratings lists.

His success is world-wide, for example he has played many highly attended concerts in Europe and The Far East, where he has charted numerous singles and albums from the 1970s through to the present day. His 1985 greatest hit's package, "The Kenny Rogers Story", for example, reached #1 on British Country Charts and four years later (in 1989) was still at #2 (He had also charted internationally during that time with a series of studio albums).

He has been married five times, his fourth wife was the actress Marianne Gordon Rogers, his current wife is called Wanda.

In 2000's he was still having #1 hit's with "The Greatest" and "Buy Me A Rose" and released the crictically acclaimed album "Back To The Well".


Selected Discography

Albums

With The First Edition

  • The First Edition (1967)
  • The First Edition's Second (1968)
  • The First Edition '69 (1969)
  • Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (1969)
  • Something's Burning (1970)
  • Tell It All Brother (1970)
  • The Ballad of Calico (1972)
  • Back Roads (1973)
  • At Their Best (1979)


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  • Love Lifted Me (1976)
  • Kenny Rogers (1976)
  • Daytime Friends (1977)
  • Love Or Something Like It (1978)
  • The Gambler] (1978)
  • Kenny (1979)
  • Gideon (1980)
  • Christmas (1981)
  • Share Your Love (1981)
  • Love Will Turn You Around (1982)
  • Eyes That See In The Dark (1983)
  • We've Got Tonight (1983)
  • What About Me? (1984)
  • Sunshine (1985)
  • The Heart Of The Matter (1985)
  • I Prefer The Moonlight (1987)
  • Something Inside So Strong (1989)
  • Love Is Strange (1990)
  • If Only My Heart Had A Voice (1993)
  • Timepiece (Orchestral Sessions) (1994)
  • The Gift (1996)
  • She Rides Wild Horses (1999)
  • Christmas Greetings (2000)
  • There You Go Again (2000)
  • Back To The Well (2003)

Compilations

  • Greatest Hits (1971, with the first edition)
  • Ten Years Of Gold (1977, features re-recordings of 1st editon hit's)
  • The Kenny Rogers Singles Album (U.K release, 1979)
  • The Best Of Kenny Rogers (1979)
  • Shine On (European Release, 1980)
  • Greatest Hits (1980)
  • 20 Greatest Hits (1983)
  • The Kenny Rogers Story - 20 Golden Greats (U.K release, 1985)
  • 60's Revisited (1980s, with the 1st edition)
  • 20 Great Years (1990)
  • The Very Best of Kenny Rogers (1990)
  • Endless Love (2000)
  • Through The Years - 20 Greatest Hits (2001)
  • 42 Ultimate Hits (2004)

BOX SETS

  • Greatest Hits and Finest Performances (5 L.P set) (1986)
  • Through The Years (4 CD) (1999)

Top Songs

  • "Just Dropped In (Too See What Condition My Condition Was In)"
  • "But You Know I Love You"
  • "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town"
  • "Reuben James"
  • "Shine On Ruby Mountain"
  • "Something's Burning"
  • "Elvira"
  • "Just Remember Your My Sunshine"
  • "Today, I Started Loving You Again
  • "The Hoodooin' Of Miss Fanny Deberry"
  • "Heed The Call"
  • "Someone Who Cares"
  • "Love Lifted Me"
  • "While The Feelings Good
  • "Laura (What's He Got I Ain't Got)"
  • "Puttin' in Overtime At Home"
  • "Lucille"
  • "Daytime Friends"
  • "Sweet Music Man"
  • "The Gambler"
  • "She Believes In Me
  • "Sail Away"
  • "Love Or Something Like It"
  • "Coward Of The County"
  • "You Decorated My Life
  • "Lady"
  • "The Long Arm Of The Law
  • "Blaze Of Glory
  • "Love The World Away"
  • "Through The Years
  • "Share Your Love With Me
  • "Love Will Turn You Around"#
  • "Everytime Two Fools Collide" (with Dottie West)
  • "We've Got Tonight" (with Sheena Easton")
  • "I Want A Son"
  • "Maybe You Should Know"
  • "Islands In The Stream (with Dolly Parton)
  • "Love Will Turn You Around" (from the motion picture "Six Pack")
  • "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight" (with Dottie West)
  • "Eyes That See In The Dark"
  • "Crazy"
  • "20 Years Ago"
  • "Tomb Of The Unknown Love"
  • "Don't Look In My Eyes
  • "Our Perfect Song"
  • "The Stranger"
  • "Two Hearts, One Love"
  • Make No Mistake (She's Mine) (with Ronnie Milsap)
  • "The Factory"
  • "I Prefer The Moonlight"
  • "After All This Time"
  • "The Vows Go Unbroken (Always True To You)"
  • "There Lies The Diffrence"
  • "What I Did For Love"
  • "Some Prisons Don't Have Walls"
  • "If You Want To Find Love"
  • "The Greatest"
  • "Buy Me A Rose"
  • "Slow Dance More"



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"Buy Me A Rose". Untitled #1 (A.K.A. "The Greatest". Steindór Andersen / Rímur EP (2001). "If You Want To Find Love". Ný batterí (2000). "Some Prisons Don't Have Walls". Svefn-g-englar (1999).

"What I Did For Love". ( ) (2002). "There Lies The Diffrence". Ágćtis byrjun (1999). "The Vows Go Unbroken (Always True To You)". Von brigđi (1998). "After All This Time". Von (1997).

"I Prefer The Moonlight". "The Factory". Make No Mistake (She's Mine) (with Ronnie Milsap). "Two Hearts, One Love".

"The Stranger". "Our Perfect Song". "Don't Look In My Eyes. "Tomb Of The Unknown Love".

"20 Years Ago". "Crazy". "Eyes That See In The Dark". "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight" (with Dottie West).

"Love Will Turn You Around" (from the motion picture "Six Pack"). "Islands In The Stream (with Dolly Parton). "Maybe You Should Know". "I Want A Son".

"We've Got Tonight" (with Sheena Easton"). "Everytime Two Fools Collide" (with Dottie West). "Love Will Turn You Around"#. "Share Your Love With Me.

"Through The Years. "Love The World Away". "Blaze Of Glory. "The Long Arm Of The Law.

"Lady". "You Decorated My Life. "Coward Of The County". "Love Or Something Like It".

"Sail Away". "She Believes In Me. "The Gambler". "Sweet Music Man".

"Daytime Friends". "Lucille". "Puttin' in Overtime At Home". "Laura (What's He Got I Ain't Got)".

"While The Feelings Good. "Love Lifted Me". "Someone Who Cares". "Heed The Call".

"The Hoodooin' Of Miss Fanny Deberry". "Today, I Started Loving You Again. "Just Remember Your My Sunshine". "Elvira".

"Something's Burning". "Shine On Ruby Mountain". "Reuben James". "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town".

"But You Know I Love You". "Just Dropped In (Too See What Condition My Condition Was In)". Through The Years (4 CD) (1999). Greatest Hits and Finest Performances (5 L.P set) (1986).

42 Ultimate Hits (2004). Through The Years - 20 Greatest Hits (2001). Endless Love (2000). The Very Best of Kenny Rogers (1990).

20 Great Years (1990). 60's Revisited (1980s, with the 1st edition). The Kenny Rogers Story - 20 Golden Greats (U.K release, 1985). 20 Greatest Hits (1983).

Greatest Hits (1980). Shine On (European Release, 1980). The Best Of Kenny Rogers (1979). The Kenny Rogers Singles Album (U.K release, 1979).

Ten Years Of Gold (1977, features re-recordings of 1st editon hit's). Greatest Hits (1971, with the first edition). Back To The Well (2003). There You Go Again (2000).

Christmas Greetings (2000). She Rides Wild Horses (1999). The Gift (1996). Timepiece (Orchestral Sessions) (1994).

If Only My Heart Had A Voice (1993). Love Is Strange (1990). Something Inside So Strong (1989). I Prefer The Moonlight (1987).

The Heart Of The Matter (1985). Sunshine (1985). What About Me? (1984). We've Got Tonight (1983).

Eyes That See In The Dark (1983). Love Will Turn You Around (1982). Share Your Love (1981). Christmas (1981).

Gideon (1980). Kenny (1979). The Gambler] (1978). Love Or Something Like It (1978).

Daytime Friends (1977). Kenny Rogers (1976). Love Lifted Me (1976). At Their Best (1979).

Back Roads (1973). The Ballad of Calico (1972). Tell It All Brother (1970). Something's Burning (1970).

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (1969). The First Edition '69 (1969). The First Edition's Second (1968). The First Edition (1967).