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Live By Request (Kenny Rogers Album)
''Live by Request'' is a live CD released in 2003 by Kenny Rogers. It documents an installment of A&E Network's '' Live by Request'' series. Ray Waddell of ''Billboard'' gave the album a positive review, saying that it was "a fitting overview of a sturdy artist and still vibrant career." A review by Michael D. Clark of the '' Houston Chronicle'' was less positive, praising the song choices but criticizing the "decision not to omit most of the between-song TV chatter", ultimately rating the album a "C−". Track listing # Welcome – " Islands in the Stream" – 3:08 # Official Welcome – Request # " Daytime Friends" – 2:57 # Request # " She Believes in Me" – 4:16 # Request # " Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" – 2:22 # Request # "Love Will Turn You Around" – 3:09 # Request # " The Greatest" – 2:45 # Request # " Love or Something Like It" – 2:53 # Request # " Through the Years" – 2:06 # Request # " Lucille" – 3:47 # Request # "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Ray Rogers (August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rogers was particularly popular with country audiences but also charted more than 120 hit singles across various genres, topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His fame and career spanned multiple genres: jazz, folk, pop, rock, and country. He remade his career and was one of the most successful cross-over artists of all time. In the late 1950s, Rogers began his recording career with the Houston-based group the Scholars, who first released "The Poor Little Doggie". After some solo releases, including 1958's "That Crazy Feeling", Rogers then joined a group with the jazz singer Bobby Doyle. In 1966, he became a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Greatest (Kenny Rogers Song)
"The Greatest" is a song written by Don Schlitz, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in April 1999 as the first single from the album ''She Rides Wild Horses''. The song reached No. 26 on the '' Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Content In the song, a little boy is outside playing baseball by himself, saying, "I'm the greatest player," and tosses the ball up in the air to hit the ball and swings and misses. The boy repeats this two more times. As his mother calls him inside for supper, the undeterred boy, in a twist ending, reveals his position—pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...—and thus by earning a strikeout, he is still the greatest. Chart performance Year-end charts References 1999 sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Country Albums
Top Country Albums is a chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine in the United States. The 50-position chart lists the most popular country music albums in the country, calculated weekly by Broadcast Data Systems based on physical sales along with digital sales and streaming. The chart was first published in the issue of ''Billboard'' dated January 11, 1964, under the title Hot Country Albums, when the number one album was '' Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash'' by Johnny Cash. The chart changed its name to Top Country LP's in the issue of ''Billboard'' dated January 13, 1968, Top Country LPs (with no apostrophe) in the issue dated May 31, 1980, and Top Country Albums in the issue dated October 20, 1984. The record for the highest number of weeks spent at number one by an album is held by '' Dangerous: The Double Album'' by Morgan Wallen, which as of the chart dated December 24, 2022 has spent a total of 87 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart. Methodology From its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Decorated My Life
"You Decorated My Life" is 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 number seven on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. ''Cash Box ''Cashbox'', also known as ''Cash Box'', was an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996. Ten years after its dissolution, it was revived and continues as ''Cashbox Magazine'', an online ...'' said that "Rogers' smooth, sincere vocal reading here is once again up to his usual high standards." Chart performance References 1979 singles Kenny Rogers songs Song recordings produced by Larry Butler (producer) United Artists Records singles Songs written by Debbie Hupp 1979 songs Songs written by Bob Morrison (songwriter) {{1970s-country-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gambler (song)
"The Gambler" is a song written by Don Schlitz and recorded by several artists, most famously by American country singer Kenny Rogers. Schlitz wrote the song in August 1976 when he was 23 years old. It took two years of shopping the song around Nashville before Bobby Bare recorded it on his album ''Bare'' at the urging of Shel Silverstein. Bare's version did not catch on and was never released as a single, so Schlitz recorded it himself, but that version failed to chart higher than No. 65. Other musicians took notice and recorded the song in 1978, including Johnny Cash, who put it on his album '' Gone Girl''. It was Rogers, however, who made the song a mainstream success. His version was a No. 1 country hit, and made its way to the pop charts at a time when country songs rarely crossed over. It was released in November 1978 as the title track from his album '' The Gambler'', and won him the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1980. Rogers is accompanied on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crazy (Kenny Rogers Song)
"Crazy" is a song co-written and recorded by American Country music superstar Kenny Rogers. It was released in December 1984 as the second single from his 1984 album '' What About Me?'', following the title song. This was Rogers' eleventh number one Country single as a solo artist. The single spent a total of thirteen weeks in the Country chart's Top 40. It also made the Top Five of ''Billboard'''s Adult Contemporary survey. Rogers co-wrote the track with Richard Marx, who was serving as a session musician and background vocalist Background may refer to: Performing arts and stagecraft * Background actor * Background artist * Background light * Background music * Background story * Background vocals * ''Background'' (play), a 1950 play by Warren Chetham-Strode Record ... for Rogers. Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References 1984 singles 1984 songs Kenny Rogers songs Songs written by Richard Marx Songs written by Kenny Rogers Song recordings produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady (Kenny Rogers Song)
"Lady" is a song written by Lionel Richie and first recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in September 1980 on the album '' Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits.'' It is listed at #60 on ''Billboard's All Time Top 100.'' Song history The song was written and produced by Lionel Richie, recorded in 1980, and ranks among Kenny Rogers's biggest hits. Rogers once told an interviewer, The success of "Lady" also boosted Richie's career. The production work on the song was his first outside the Commodores and foreshadowed his success as a solo act during the 1980s. Rogers was also a featured vocalist on "We Are the World", co-written by Richie. Richie performed "Lady" himself on his 1998 album, ''Time'', and he and Rogers performed the song as a duet on Richie's 2012 release '' Tuskegee''. Lionel Richie had originally pitched this song to the Commodores and they turned it down. Then later, it was given to Kenny Rogers to record and it became the biggest sell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coward Of The County
"Coward of the County" is a song written by Roger Bowling and Billy Edd Wheeler, and recorded by American country music singer Kenny Rogers. The song was released in November 1979 as the second single from Rogers' multi-platinum album ''Kenny''. It became a major crossover hit, topping the '' Billboard'' Country chart and reaching #3 on the Hot 100 chart; it also topped the Cash Box singles chart and was a Top 10 hit in numerous other countries worldwide topping the chart in Canada, the UK, and also in Ireland where it stayed at #1 for six consecutive weeks. Content The narrator sings about his ward and nephew Tommy, a young man with a prominent reputation for never standing up for himself; his pacifism earned him the derisive nickname "Yellow" from others throughout the county, but the narrator hints that he always felt there was something about Tommy that others did not see. Tommy's non-violent attitude was greatly influenced by his father who died in prison when Tommy was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer
"Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" is a song recorded by American singers Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes, the latter of whom wrote the song with her husband David Ellingson. It was released in March 1980 as the first single from Rogers' album ''Gideon (album), Gideon''. It was also recorded in Spanish as "No Te Enamores De Un Loco". The song was the only duet from the album ''Gideon (album), Gideon''. Background While recording the song in Nashville, Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes sang facing each other with live musicians while Carnes had to improvise singing the melody in a different key than she had prepared to do when she came to the studio. ''Record World'' said that the singers "exude an awesome emotional intensity" on the song. Rogers and Carnes performed the track live at the Fox Theatre (Atlanta), Fox Theatre in Atlanta, and it featured on the CBS TV special ''Kenny Rogers' America'', broadcast on November 20, 1980. Charts References 1980 singles Kenny Roge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucille (Kenny Rogers Song)
"Lucille" is a song written by Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in January 1977 as the second and final single from the album ''Kenny Rogers''. It became Rogers' first major hit as a solo artist after leaving the successful country/rock group The First Edition the previous year. An international hit, it reached number 1 on the Billboard Country Singles chart and number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Overseas, "Lucille" reached the top of the UK Singles Chart in June 1977, the first of Rogers' two number 1 singles there. Content The song, told by the narrator (Rogers), tells the story of a man in a bar in Toledo, Ohio Toledo ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. A major Midwestern United States port city, Toledo is the fourth-most populous city in the state of Ohio, after Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, and according ..., who acquaints himself with a downhea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Through The Years (Kenny Rogers Song)
"Through the Years" is a song written by Steve Dorff and Marty Panzer, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in December 1981 as the fourth single from the album ''Share Your Love''. "Through the Years" reached number 13 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in early 1982, remaining in the top 40 for eleven weeks and went to number one on the Adult Contemporary chart, becoming Rogers' fifth single to top this chart. The song peaked at number five on the Country chart. Rogers credited "Through the Years" as being one of his career songs, though it had relatively little success in North America. Rogers appeared and performed the song at the 1983 Grammy Awards and at an April 2001 halftime ceremony honoring Charles Barkley at a Philadelphia 76ers game. On his 50th anniversary TV special, Rogers performed a version of the song with his two friends Lionel Richie and Dolly Parton which also included archive footage of him working with both on various ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
