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OlCh
@ 15-03-2008, 18:37
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Greatest Hits
Артист: Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
Альбом: Greatest Hits, 1996
Издатель: HIP-O
Жанр: Country, Pop/Rock
Формат файла: eac-wv-cue-log-tags-scans embedded album art-iso
Ссылка: CD
Нахождение: eDonkey/Kademlia
:)
а вот нам еще один "городской ковбой"...
благодарности, как обычно, KillerRips-у и друганам :beer:

Biography by David Vinopal & Stephen Thomas Erlewine
It took several tries before Kenny Rogers became a star. As a member of the First Edition (and the New Christy Minstrels before that), he shared in some million-sellers, among them "Reuben James" and "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town," an excellent Mel Tillis song about a disabled veteran. But superstardom lay ahead for this Texan, and it arrived in the late '70s. His experience with the two previous pop groups had prepared him well: he knew the easy listening audience was out there, and he supplied them with well done middle-of-the-road songs with a country flavor. Having gone solo, in 1976 Rogers charted with "Love Lifted Me." But it was with an outstanding song by writers Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum... Read More...

TRACKLIST
 1. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
 2. But You Know I Love You
 3. Goodtime Liberator
 4. Ruben James [Aka Reuben James]
 5. Sunshine
 6. New Design
 7. Something's Burning
 8. Tell It All Brother
 9. Just Remember You're My Sunshine
10. Molly
11. Heed the Call
12. Stranger in My Place
13. Someone Who Cares
14. What Am I Gonna Do?
15. School Teacher
16. Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)

SPOILER!
KillerRips
@ 16-03-2008, 00:35
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This is a good comp. of early Kenny Rogers, before he went pure country. :)

His career began in the mid-1950s, when he recorded with a doo-wop group called The Scholars who had some success with a single called "Poor Little Doggie". Rogers was not the lead singer of the group and after two more singles they disbanded when their leader went solo.

Now on his own, Kenneth Rogers (as he was billed then) followed the break up with his own single, a minor solo hit called "That Crazy Feeling" (1958). After sales slowed down, Rogers joined a jazz group called The Bobby Doyle Trio, who got a lot of work in clubs thanks to a reasonable fan following and also recorded for Columbia Records. The group disbanded in 1965, and a 1966 jazzy rock single Rogers recorded for Mercury Records, called "Here's That Rainy Day" failed. Rogers also worked as a producer, writer and session musician for other performers; including country artists Mickey Gilley and Eddie Arnold. In 1966 he joined the New Christy Minstrels as a singer and bass player.

Feeling that the Minstrels were not offering the success they wanted, Rogers and fellow members Mike Settle, Terry Williams and Thelma Camacho left the group. They formed The First Edition in 1967 (later renamed "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition"). They chalked up a string of hits on both the pop and country charts, including "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town", "Reuben James" and "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)." In his First Edition days, Rogers had something of a hippie image, with long brown hair, an earring, and pink sunglasses. Known affectionately in retrospect as "Hippie Kenny", Rogers had a much smoother vocal style than in his later career.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Rogers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ8k6fVe25k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZYcqlEZxGQ&feature=related