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(Edsel) 22 tracks - originally sealed This is the second of five Edsel packages that reissue... more

Kenny Rogers: Daytime Friends - Love Or Something Like It (2-CD)

(Edsel) 22 tracks - originally sealed

This is the second of five Edsel packages that reissue the ten solo albums by country superstar Kenny Rogers,released on the United Artists and Liberty labels at the height of his wordwide popularity between 1976 and 1983.

"Daytime Friends" features the hit title song, his cover of the Eagles' "Desperado'; and one of Kenny's most enduring, successes, his own composition "Sweet Music Man". The title track of "Love Or Something Like It" continued the run of hits, helping the album to the top of the country charts.

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  • Interpret: Kenny Rogers

  • Album titlle: Daytime Friends - Love Or Something Like It (2-CD)

  • Label EDSEL

  • Genre Country

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0740155204037

  • weight in Kg 0.1
Rogers, Kenny - Daytime Friends - Love Or Something Like It (2-CD) CD 1
01 Daytime Friends Kenny Rogers
02 Desperado Kenny Rogers
03 Rock And Roll Man Kenny Rogers
04 Lying Again Kenny Rogers
05 I'll Just Write My Music And Sing My Songs Kenny Rogers
06 My World Begins And Ends With You Kenny Rogers
07 Sweet Music Man Kenny Rogers
08 Am I Too Late Kenny Rogers
09 We Don't Make Love Anymore Kenny Rogers
10 Ghost Of Another Man Kenny Rogers
11 Let Me Sing For You Kenny Rogers
Rogers, Kenny - Daytime Friends - Love Or Something Like It (2-CD) CD 2
01 Love Or Something Like It Kenny Rogers
02 There's A Lot Of That Going Around Kenny Rogers
03 Buried Treasure Kenny Rogers
04 Something About Your Song Kenny Rogers
05 Momma's Waiting Kenny Rogers
06 We Could Have Been The Closest Of Friends Kenny Rogers
07 I Could Be So Good For You Kenny Rogers
08 Sail Away Kenny Rogers
09 Even A Foul Would Let Go Kenny Rogers
10 Highway Flyer Kenny Rogers
11 ing Again Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers 21. 8. 1938 in Houston - Texas. /  20. März 2020 in Sandy Springs... more
"Kenny Rogers"

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

Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/various-country-und-western-hit-parade-1969.html
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