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(1999/UNIVERSAL) 24 tracks (73:18) 1969-72 ! last copies more

Kenny Rogers & First Edition: The Best Of Kenny Rogers & The First Edition (CD)

(1999/UNIVERSAL) 24 tracks (73:18) 1969-72 ! last copies

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Rogers, Kenny - The Best Of Kenny Rogers & The First Edition (CD) CD 1
01 Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town Kenny Rogers & First Edition
02 Tulsa Turnaround Kenny Rogers & First Edition
03 Elvira Kenny Rogers & First Edition
04 Reuben James Kenny Rogers & First Edition
05 Me And Bobby McGee Kenny Rogers & First Edition
06 Calico Silver Kenny Rogers & First Edition
07 Something's Burning Kenny Rogers & First Edition
08 Tell It All Brother Kenny Rogers & First Edition
09 Just Droopped In (To see What Condition..) Kenny Rogers & First Edition
10 But You Know I Love You Kenny Rogers & First Edition
11 Heed The Call Kenny Rogers & First Edition
12 She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye Kenny Rogers & First Edition
13 The King Of Oak Street Kenny Rogers & First Edition
14 For The Good Times Kenny Rogers & First Edition
15 Mommas Waiting Kenny Rogers & First Edition
16 Sleep Comes Easy Kenny Rogers & First Edition
17 I Believe In Music Kenny Rogers & First Edition
18 Love Woman Kenny Rogers & First Edition
19 A Poem For My Little Lady Kenny Rogers & First Edition
20 Sunshine Kenny Rogers & First Edition
21 Last Few Threads Of Love Kenny Rogers & First Edition
22 What Am I Gonna Do? Kenny Rogers & First Edition
23 Write Me Down (Don't Fort My Name) Kenny Rogers & First Edition
Kenny Rogers 21. 8. 1938 in Houston - Texas. /  20. März 2020 in Sandy Springs... more
"Kenny Rogers & First Edition"

Kenny Rogers

21. 8. 1938 in Houston - Texas. /  20. März 2020 in Sandy Springs

Record Labels: Jolly Rogers, Mercury, Reprise, United Artists, Liberty, RCA
Erster Hit: Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (1969)
Erster No. 1 Hit: Lucille (1977)
 

Kenny Rogers

Ruben James

Released during the rise of Black Power, Ruben James was a sepia-toned snapshot of an America rooted in shared rural values, and thus had limited relevance to whites fleeing the downtown core or blacks under martial law. "I remember mules, remember them well," wrote Barry Etris, who grew up around Alpharetta, Georgia. "When my father was [plowing], he used every cuss word in his vocabulary. Sometimes, I would watch him. He would be bare to the waist, wearing faded cut-off khakis and lace-up work boots. As he retreated down a long row in the prime of his manhood, tanned and golden in the sun, with his broad back and muscular arms controlling the single-tree plow, I thought he looked like Apollo driving his chariot across the sky. I didn't know then that the Gods die, that we would someday find Apollo lying on his back in a furrow beside his steed with the reins still in his hands, never to rise again." Etris's song about his father made its way to United Artists (Unart) Music in Nashville, run by Billy Edd Wheeler, the writer of Jackson, Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Back, etc. Another songwriter at Unart, Alex Harvey, worked for Wheeler. "Billy's the one who taught me how to write songs," Harvey said later. "When I think back to Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, I hear simple melodies. Rimbaud, Frost, and others wrote simple but profound poems.

That's what I was after. I was there when Barry Etris brought in 'Ruben James.' It was a song about a white man, and it didn't really work. Billy said, 'Can you do something with this?' Across from my dad's little country store in West Tennessee, was a blacksmith shop run by a couple of black men. When my dad got tuberculosis, those men became my fathers. And when my dad was born, his mother couldn't make milk, and a black woman named Majula lived not far from them, and she'd just had a baby, Jimmy Lee, so my dad suckled one breast and Jimmy Lee the other." Billy Edd Wheeler sent the song to Unart's west coast manager, Eddie Reeves, who pitched it to Kenny Rogers by following him around a golf course singing it. Rogers had followed But You Know I Love You with Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town. He followed Ruby with Ruben James, and it reached #26 on the pop charts. All was not well in the studio. "I saw what condition their condition was in," their producer Jimmy Bowen wrote, "and it was not good. Kenny, Mike Settle, and Terry Williams got into a screaming match over the harmony parts that turned into a fist-fight." Thelma Camacho quit, and among those auditioning to replace her was Karen Carpenter. Mike Settle left soon after Ruben, and the personnel changed rapidly until the First Edition split in 1974. Since 1969, Ruben James has mostly been recorded by country artists, including Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty, Glen Campbell, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

As a postscript, Reuben James was an early nineteenth century American naval hero who had three ships named in his honor. When one of them was sunk in 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote the first song titled Reuben James; in fact, the First Edition's record might have been spelled Ruben James to differentiate it. Title aside, the two songs bear no relation each other.

- Colin Escott -

Various Country & Western Hit Parade 1969

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Tracklist
Rogers, Kenny - The Best Of Kenny Rogers & The First Edition (CD) CD 1
01 Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town
02 Tulsa Turnaround
03 Elvira
04 Reuben James
05 Me And Bobby McGee
06 Calico Silver
07 Something's Burning
08 Tell It All Brother
09 Just Droopped In (To see What Condition..)
10 But You Know I Love You
11 Heed The Call
12 She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye
13 The King Of Oak Street
14 For The Good Times
15 Mommas Waiting
16 Sleep Comes Easy
17 I Believe In Music
18 Love Woman
19 A Poem For My Little Lady
20 Sunshine
21 Last Few Threads Of Love
22 What Am I Gonna Do?
23 Write Me Down (Don't Fort My Name)