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(Spectrum) 20 Tracks - Original 1970s Capitol masters! Whether solo or duetting with Dottie... more

Kenny Rogers: Lucille - The Collection (CD)

(Spectrum) 20 Tracks - Original 1970s Capitol masters!

Whether solo or duetting with Dottie West, Dolly Parton, Kim Carnes or Sheena Easton, Kenny Rogers has played a major role in bringing country music to a pop audience.
This compilation of classic Seventies and Eighties cuts from the bearded Texan includes his first and only US solo chart-topper 'Lady' (penned by Lionel Richie), story songs like 'The Gambler' that inspired a TV movie series, and UK chart-toppers 'Coward Of The County' and 'Lucille' - all highlights from the most successful period of his lengthy career.

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  • Interpret: Kenny Rogers

  • Album titlle: Lucille - The Collection (CD)

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  • Genre Country

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0600753574751

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Rogers, Kenny - Lucille - The Collection (CD) CD 1
01 Lucille Kenny Rogers
02 She Believes In Me Kenny Rogers
03 The Gambler Kenny Rogers
04 Through The Years Kenny Rogers
05 Lady Kenny Rogers
06 Coward Of The County Kenny Rogers
07 Love Or Something Like It Kenny Rogers
08 Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town Kenny Rogers
09 We've Got Tonight Kenny Rogers
10 Daytime Friends Kenny Rogers
11 We've Got Tonight Kenny Rogers
12 You Decorated My Life Kenny Rogers
13 Love The World Away Kenny Rogers
14 I Don't Need You Kenny Rogers
15 Share Your Love With Me Kenny Rogers
16 Love Will Turn You Around Kenny Rogers
17 What Are We Doin' In Love Kenny Rogers
18 Every Time Two Fools Collide Kenny Rogers
19 Sweet Music Man Kenny Rogers
20 Blaze Of Glory 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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Tracklist
Rogers, Kenny - Lucille - The Collection (CD) CD 1
01 Lucille
02 She Believes In Me
03 The Gambler
04 Through The Years
05 Lady
06 Coward Of The County
07 Love Or Something Like It
08 Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
09 We've Got Tonight
10 Daytime Friends
11 We've Got Tonight
12 You Decorated My Life
13 Love The World Away
14 I Don't Need You
15 Share Your Love With Me
16 Love Will Turn You Around
17 What Are We Doin' In Love
18 Every Time Two Fools Collide
19 Sweet Music Man
20 Blaze Of Glory