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 ...
Kenny Rogers, American country music singer known for his raspy voice and multiple crossover hits, including ‘Lady,’‘The Gambler,’‘Lucille,’ and ‘Through the Years.’ His first success was on the pop charts in the 1960s, and he hit his stride as
Rogers turned toDon Schlitzin 1999 for this unlikely hit that compared life to playing baseball. Always a magician with a lyric, Schlitz’s turning the boy’s bad play into an exercise in philosophy turned out to be stroke of genius, providing the singer with his first entry into the Top ...
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...
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...
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" films do we see the dark and tortured character of Bradey ...
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...
Kenny Rogers + Dolly Parton Were Adorable Together – Watch: 10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kenny Rogers Getty Images 1967, With Family Before a First Edition Performance Bass player and singer Kenny Rogers of the rock and roll band the First Edition perform at the Bitter End night...
“Lucille,” about a woman who leaves her husband and four children in the lurch. When the single hit the airwaves, it ruffled his mother’s feathers, Rogers claimed, because it bore her name.“I said, ‘Mom, first of all, you have eight kids,’” he wrote inLuck or Something Like...