GOODBYE
KENNY
ROGERS
SONGWRITERS: LIONEL B. & JR. RICHIE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE FIRST 50 YEARS
LABEL: TIME LIFE
GENRE: COUNTRY MUSIC
YEAR: 2009
Kenneth Ray Rogers(August 21, 1938– March 20,
2020) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, record producer, and
entrepreneur. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rogers was particularly popular with country audiences but
also charted more than 420 hit singles across various genres, topping the
country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United
States alone. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his
lifetime, making him one of the best-selling
music artists of all time. His fame and career
spanned multiple genres: jazz, folk, pop, rock, and country. He remade his
career and was one of the most successful cross-over artists of all time.
In
the late 1950s, Rogers began his recording career with the Houston-based group
the Scholars, who first released "The Poor Little Doggie". After
some solo releases, including 1958's "That Crazy Feeling",
Rogers then joined a group with the jazz singer Bobby Doyle.
In 1966, he became a member of the folk ensemble the New
Christy Minstrels, playing double bass and bass guitar as well
as singing. In 1967, he and several members of the New Christy Minstrels left
to found the group the First
Edition, with whom he scored his first major hit,
"Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition
Was In)", a psychedelic rock song which peaked at number five on the Billboard charts. As Rogers took an increased leadership role in the First
Edition following the success of 1969's "Ruby, Don't
Take Your Love to Town", the band gradually
changed styles to a more country feel. The band
broke up in 1975–76, and Rogers embarked on a long and successful solo career,
which included several successful collaborations, including duets with singers Dottie West, Dolly Parton, and Sheena Easton and a songwriting partnership with Lionel Richie. His
signature song, 1978's "The Gambler",
was a crossover hit that won him a Grammy Award in 1980 and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the National
Recording Registry by the Library of
Congress. He developed the Gambler persona into a
character for a successful
series of television films starting with 1980's Emmy-nominated
Kenny Rogers
as The Gambler.
PRogers's albums The Gambler and Kenny were featured
in the About.com poll of
"The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever". He was voted the
"Favorite Singer of All Time" in a 1986 joint poll by readers of both
USA Today and People. He
received numerous awards, such as the AMAs,
Grammys, ACMs,
and CMAs as well as a lifetime achievement award for a career spanning six
decades in 2003. Later success included the 2006 album release Water & Bridges,
an across-the-board hit that entered the Top 5 in the Billboard Country Albums sales charts, also charting in the Top 15 of the Billboard 200. The first single from the album,
"I Can't Unlove You", was also a sizable
chart hit. Remaining a popular entertainer around the world, he
continued to tour regularly until his retirement in 2017.
Rogers had acting roles in movies and
television shows, including the title roles in Kenny Rogers
as The Gambler, the MacShayne series for The NBC
Mystery Movie, and the 1982 feature film Six Pack. He was
a co-founder of the restaurant chain Kenny Rogers
Roasters in collaboration with former Kentucky
Fried Chicken CEO John Y. Brown Jr. Although the stores closed in the United States, they are still a
fixture in Asia.
I wanted you for
life, you and me in the wind
I never thought there'd come a time that our story would end
It's hard to understand but I guess I'll have to try
It's not easy to say goodbye
For all the joy we
share, all that time we had to spend
Now if I had one wish, I'd want forever back again
To look into your eyes and hold you when you cry
It's not easy to say goodbye
I remember all those
great time we had
So many memories, some good, some bad
Yes and through it all, those memories will last forever
There's peace in
where you are, maybe all I need to know
And if I listen to my heart, I'll hear your laughter once more
And so I have to say I'm just glad you came my way
It's not easy to say goodbye.
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