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21 Mar 20 - 07:09 AM (#4041100) Subject: RE: Kenny Rogers From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) Lucille Pretty good range for a country boy. R.I.P. |
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21 Mar 20 - 08:49 AM (#4041120) Subject: RE: Kenny Rogers From: GUEST,Allan Conn I likewise don't know a lot of Kenny Rogers music. Just the obvious UK hits. However that song Coward Of The Country has legs. For some reason it has legs and 40 years after it was a hit I get lots of requests for it here in the Kelso area. Often from younger folk. I'd say that along with Steve Earl's "Galway Girl" it is the most requested song I get that I haven't as yet learned. |
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21 Mar 20 - 09:32 AM (#4041129) Subject: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: Jeri I thought it was worth having a separate thread. |
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21 Mar 20 - 09:44 AM (#4041130) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: Dave'sWife Here in the USA, The Country Music Association named the Barry Gibb penned song "Islands in the Stream" as the number one duet of all time in 2005. It had originally been intended for Marvin Gaye but Gaye was not particularly well and Gibb gave it to Kenny Rogers and produced that entire album, Eyes That See in the Dark (1983), off which it came as the first single. The perfect combination of Rogers' and Parton's voices make this a very popular song to this day. It was a huge crossover hit here. Wikipedia article on Islands in the Stream |
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21 Mar 20 - 09:48 AM (#4041132) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: Jeri "Just Dropped In..." was written by Mickey Newberry I think Rogers and the First Edition had one hit with it, before he moved on to country. Yes, it was the psychedelic era of American music. I really like Islands In the Stream. It took me a while to figure out what was going on with the timing. |
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21 Mar 20 - 10:03 AM (#4041135) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: gillymor From The Big Lebowski |
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21 Mar 20 - 11:30 AM (#4041153) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: GUEST,Starship He was a good singer, and I still love 'Twenty Years Ago', but he wrote few of the songs he recorded. (Only about a half dozen, and they were co-authored.) RIP. |
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21 Mar 20 - 12:57 PM (#4041162) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: Nigel Parsons R.I.P. I would make a point of getting to a karaoke bar tonight, if all the pubs weren't closed! |
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21 Mar 20 - 12:57 PM (#4041163) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: fat B****rd RIP Mr. Rogers |
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21 Mar 20 - 05:52 PM (#4041202) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: pdq Country? |
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21 Mar 20 - 06:04 PM (#4041204) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: JennieG He knew when to walk away....... |
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21 Mar 20 - 08:07 PM (#4041215) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: Johnny J Sad news but I daresay it will be OK for Ruby to take her love to town now.. |
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21 Mar 20 - 09:13 PM (#4041222) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: GUEST,keberoxu You got that right, Johnny J ... that was a Kenny Rogers and the First Edition hit record, along with 'Reuben James' and 'I Just Dropped In.' My happiest memory of Kenny Rogers goes back many decades to a night when he hosted the Grammy Awards. I had seen the Grammys hosted by Andy Williams, and thought him too oily; and by Paul Simon, who was a contender that year, did NOT win, and got really strangely creepily unpleasant at the podium about not-winning as he continued hosting, with this tense fake smile on his face -- toe-curling unpleasant. Kenny Rogers was a contender that year when he hosted, and I believe that some other artist won instead of him; but he never stopped rejoicing in the privilege of being up there and being part of an event that he loved. He lifted my spirits. |
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21 Mar 20 - 10:10 PM (#4041226) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: GUEST,paperback “You Can’t Make Old Friends” (2013) Lucille |
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22 Mar 20 - 06:49 AM (#4041265) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: GUEST,akenaton Here Sorry about that, link |
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22 Mar 20 - 01:06 PM (#4041330) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: BrooklynJay I remember - I think it was back in the early 70's? - Kenny Rogers did a TV commercial for the Quick Pickin', Fun Strummin' Home Guitar Course. I believe it consisted of a booklet and LP record. I think it was before he achieved Superstar status. Can't seem to find it on the Net, or I'd post a link. Anyone else remember this? Jay |
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22 Mar 20 - 03:56 PM (#4041385) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: GUEST,Starship You weren't just dreamin' it, BJay: https://www.flickr.com/photos/studioz7/42461803065 |
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23 Mar 20 - 05:04 AM (#4041496) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: Acorn4 Three of the country greats now gone:- This is probably my favourite Kenny Rogers song:- Sweet Music Man |
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23 Mar 20 - 11:16 PM (#4041712) Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Rogers (1938-2020) From: GUEST,paperback Another of old Kenny's many Buy Me A Rose |