Biografía Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers nació el 21 de
agosto de 1938
en Houston, Texas. Este cantante
country creció en uno de los sectores más pobres de
Discografía seleccionada (hasta 2006)
Albums
Con el grupo : The First Edition
- The First Edition (1967)
- The First Edition's Second (1968)
- The First Edition '69 (1969)
- Ruby, Don't Take Your Love
To Town
(1969)
- Something's Burning (1970)
- Tell It All Brother (1970)
- Transition (1971)
- The Ballad of Calico (1972)
- Back Roads (1972)
- Rollin (1973)
- Monumental (1973)
- I'm Not Making Music For Money (1974 NZ only release with
exclusive tracks)
Solo
- Love Lifted Me (United Artists 1976)
- Kenny Rogers (United Artists 1976)
- Daytime Friends (United Artists 1977)
- Love Or Something Like It (United Artists
1978)
- The Gambler (United Artists 1978)
- Every Time Two Fools Collide (Kenny Rogers and Dottie West)
(United Artists 1978)
- Kenny (United Artists 1979)
- Classics (Kenny Rogers and Dottie West) (United
Artists 1979)
- Gideon (United Artists 1980)
- Christmas (Liberty 1981)
- Share Your Love (Liberty 1981)
- Love Will Turn You Around (
- We've Got Tonight (Liberty 1983)
- Eyes That See In The Dark (RCA 1983)
- What About Me? (Kenny Rogers, James Ingram and Kim
Carnes) (RCA 1984)
- Once Upon a Christmas (Kenny Rogers and Dolly
Parton) (RCA 1984)
- The Heart Of The Matter (RCA 1985)
- Love Is What We Make It (
- They Don't Make Them Like They Used To (RCA 1986)
- I Prefer The Moonlight (RCA 1987)
- Something Inside So Strong (Reprise 1989)
- Christmas In America (Reprise 1989)
- Love Is Strange (Reprise 1990)
- Back Home Again (Reprise 1991)
- If Only My Heart Had A Voice (Giant 1993)
- Timepiece (Orchestral Sessions with David
Foster)
(Atlantic 1994)
- Vote For Love (onQ 1996)
- The Gift (Magnatone 1996)
- Across My Heart (Magnatone 1997)
- Christmas From The Heart (Dreamcatcher 1998)
- She Rides Wild Horses (Dreamcatcher 1999)
- There You Go Again (Dreamcatcher 2000)
- Live By Request (Dreamcatcher 2001)
- Back To The Well (Dreamcatcher 2003)
- Water & Bridges (Capitol Nashville 2006)
Compilaciones
- Greatest Hits (1971) (Kenny Rogers And The First
Edition)
- Ten Years Of Gold (1977, features re-recordings of First
Edition hits, plus early solo hits)
- The Kenny Rogers Singles Album (U.K release of Ten Years Of Gold with Bonus tracks, 1979)
- The Best Of Kenny Rogers (1979)
- Shine On (European Release, 1980)
- Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits (1980)
- Lady (U.K release of 1980's Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits
album, 1981)
- Twenty Greatest Hits (1983)
- The Kenny Rogers Story - 20
Golden Greats (U.K release, 1985)
- 60's Revisited (1980s, with the 1st edition)
- Greatest Hits (1988)
- 20 Great Years (1990)
- The Very Best Of Kenny Rogers (1990)
- The Best Of Kenny Rogers (1999)
- Kenny Rogers - Collection (2000)
- Through The Years - 20 Greatest Hits (2001)
- Legends - The Kenny Rogers and The First
Edition Collection (2003)
- 42 Ultimate Hits (2004)
- The Very Best Of Kenny Rogers (2 CD set, European release,
2005)
- 21 Number One Hits (2006)
- Golden Legends - Kenny Rogers (2006)
Lista de sus principales éxitos
Las siguientes canciones ocuparon el número 1 en, al menos, una de las siguientes listas: Billboard Country, Billboard Hot 100, Billboard AC, UK singles chart.
- Ruby, Don't Take Your Love
to Town
(1969) - US Pop #6, C & W #39, AC #6, #1 UK (NME chart).
- Lucille (1977) - US Pop #5, C&W #1, AC
#10 (Gold); UK
#1
- Daytime Friends (1977) - US Pop #28, C&W
#1, AC #13; UK #39
- Every Time Two Fools Collide (1978, with Dottie West) - US Pop #101, C&W #1, AC #44
- Love Or Something Like It (1978) - US Pop #32, C&W
#1
- The Gambler (1978) - US Pop #16, C&W #1, AC #3
- All I Ever Need Is You (1979, with Dottie West) - US
Pop #102, C&W #1, AC #38
- She Believes In Me (1979) - US Pop #5, C&W
#1, AC #1 (Gold), UK #42
- You Decorated My Life (1979) - US Pop #7, C&W
#1, AC #2
- Coward of the County (1979) - US Pop #3, C&W
#1, AC #5 (Gold); UK #1
- Lady (1980) - US Pop, C&W and AC #1
(Gold);
- What Are We Doin' In Love (1981, with Dottie West) - US
Pop #14, C&W #1, AC #7
- I Don't Need You (1981) - US Pop #3, C&W
and AC #1
- Share Your Love With Me (1981) - US Pop #13, C&W
#5, AC #1
- Through the Years (1981) - US Pop #13, C&W
#5, AC #1
- Love Will Turn You Around (1982) - US Pop #13, C&W
and AC #1
- We've Got Tonight (1983, with Sheena Easton) - US Pop #6, C&W #1,
AC #2; UK #28
- Islands in the Stream (1983, with Dolly Parton) - US
Pop, C&W and AC #1 (Platinum);
- What About Me? (1984, with Kim Carnes and James
Ingram) - US
Pop #15, C&W #70, AC #1, R&B #57
- Crazy (1985) - US Pop #79, C&W #1,
AC #5 <
- Real Love (1985, with Dolly Parton) - US Pop #91, C&W
#1
- Morning Desire (1985) - US Pop #72, C&W #1,
AC #8
- Tomb of the Unknown Love (1986) - US C&W #1
- Make No Mistake, She's Mine (1987, with Ronnie Milsap) -
- Buy Me
Otras canciones destacadas
- "Reuben James" (#26 pop in 1969)
- "Shine On Ruby Mountain"
- "Elvira"
- "Just Remember You're My
Sunshine"
- "Today, I Started Loving You
Again"
- "The Hoodooin' Of Miss Fanny
Deberry"
- "Heed The Call" (#33 pop in
1970)
- "While The Feeling's Good"
- "Laura (What's He Got I Ain't
Got)"
- "Puttin' in Overtime At Home"
- "Sail Away"
- "The Long Arm Of The Law"
- "I Want A Son"
- "Maybe You Should Know"
- "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight"
(with Dottie West)
- "Just The Thought Of Losing You"
- "Love Is What We Make It"
- "The Pride Is Back" (with Nickie
Ryder)
- "Don't Look In My Eyes"
- "Our Perfect Song"
- "The Stranger"
- "Two Hearts, One Love"
- "The Factory"
- "When Your Put Your Heart In It"
- "(Something Inside) So Strong"
- "I Prefer The Moonlight"
- "After All This Time"
- "The Vows Go Unbroken (Always True To
You)"
- "There Lies The Difference"
- "What I Did For Love"
- "Some Prisons Don't Have Walls"
- "If You Want To Find Love"
- "The Greatest"
- "Planet Texas"
- "Slow Dance More"
- "There You Go Again"
- "Homeland"
- "Harder Cards"
- "My World Is Over"
- "The Last Ten Years (Superman)"