Coming up with a list of ten of the best Kenny Rogers songs is almost a downright impossible task. You could do separate essays on his 60s and 70s hits withThe First Edition, and his duets — withDolly Parton,Dottie West,Kim Carnes, andSheena Easton(among others) would warrant a list a...
However, “Islands in the Stream” cemented a decades-long association with Dolly Parton, which kept Rogers in the mainstream eye. The pair had another No. 1 country hit in 1985 with“Real Love,”and teamed up for the title track of Rogers’ 2013 albumYou Can’t Make Old Friends. Parton...
Rogers cut a pop album of songs intended for The Bee Gees in 1983. The album was titledEyes That See in The Dark, and its hit single was the now timelessDolly Partonduet "Islands in the Stream." Yeah, it's pop and not country, but it's as great a pop song as you'll find from...
Whether you discovered Kenny Rogers through counterculture rockers the Fifth Edition, his staggering list of country hits, or his recurring role as Brady Hawkes in the The Gambler TV movies, your first close encounter with the legend’s music was millions of light years away from “Planet Texas...
YouTube 31. Pam Tillis and Mel Tillis, "'Til' All the Lonely's Gone" This rollicking number had Pam Tillis teaming up with her father, Mel, on her 1994 albumSweetheart's Dance.Pam co-wrote the song with Bob DiPiero and John Scott Sherrill. One of the most memorable songs on the re...
“The Gambler,” Kenny Rogers (1978) Schlitz was a young night-shift computer operator at Vanderbilt University in 1976, writing songs and shopping them around on Music Row in Nashville on the side, when he came up with “The Gambler,” a haunting story about a mysterious card player and ...
Coming up with a list of ten of the best Kenny Rogers songs is almost a downright impossible task. You could do separate essays on his 60s and 70s hits with The First Edition, and his duets — with Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Kim Carnes, and Sheena Easton (among others) would warrant ...