Rogers got his big break in 1958 when he recorded his first hit single “That Crazy Feeling,” for the Carlton label. He got the opportunity to perform the song on Dick Clark’s popular music program American Bandstand. Rogers would eventually switch his focus to jazz, playing bass with jaz...
As well as being a keen photographer that led to several books, he was also a successful businessman, owning a chain of restaurants called Kenny Rogers Roasters. He had a brief chart comeback in 2000, with the hit Buy Me A Rose, which event earned him his first No 1 country song in ...
The song was so successful that it earned Rogers his first Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance. Following his solo success, Rogers continued to make hit after hit, and released one of his most iconic albums “The Gambler,” in 1978. He found that it was finally time to sha...
Is it the subtle script? The complex, yet subtle plot? Or is it just the powerful screen presence of the one and only Kenny Rogers? Whatever the formula for this cinematic tour de force, the result is the same: sheer excellence. Only in the first and best edition of the "Gambler" fil...
In 1976, Rogers signed a deal in Nashville with United Artists. With the help of producer Larry Butler, Rogers released "Lucille" in early 1977, his first No. 1 hit. The singer would tally many classic hits through the decade, including "Sweet Music Man," "Every Time Two Fools Collide"...
The first was also based on a hit Kenny Rogers song, Coward of the County (1981), (Country, #3) in which he played a town preacher who tries to mentor his young "cowardly" nephew. The second, Wild Horses (1985), had him starring as a has-been rodeo champion looking for personal ...
In 1974 Rogers again went the solo route and achieved the commercial success he had been striving for with the feel-good country song, “Love Lifted Me.” Just two short years later, he scored his first hit on the top of the country charts with the heart-wrenching hit, “Lucille.” It...
One of two Rogers records to top the Billboard Country Singles chart for three weeks, this story song was the very first No. 1 song of the 1980s. Rogers was such a hot commodity by this time that the record hit No. 3 on the Hot 100 – in spite of it being one of his more tra...
In the late 1970s Rogers hit his stride. Going solo again, he had his first major hit with the ballad “Lucille,” which won him a Grammy Award for best male country vocal performance (1977). “Lucille” was named song of the year and single of the year by the Academy of Country Mu...
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