"that saw him collect 20 No. 1 songs between 1977 and 2000. On the Hot 100, it was his only solo chart-topping song, although Rogers would have a duet No. 1 three years later (1983's ""Islands in the Stream"" with Dolly Parton). On the Adult Contemporary Singles chart, ""Lady"" was Rogers' second (of eight) songs that reached the chart's summit. ""Billboard"" ranked it at the No. 3 song for 1981. Lady (Kenny Rogers song) ""Lady"" is a song written by Lionel Richie and first recorded by American country artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in September 1980 on the album"
"for him. By August, Barry started recording demos for Rogers by doing the demo of ""Eyes That See in the Dark"". The release of Rogers' ""Eyes That See in the Dark"" album reached #1 on US Country charts. The lead single on Rogers' album was a duet between himself and fellow country singer Dolly Parton entitled ""Islands in the Stream"" that became US No. 1 hit in the Billboard Hot 100, Country Charts, Adult Contemporary Charts and on Canadian Country Charts, and was also certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over two million physical copies"
"was Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers who, during the mid to late 1970s came to personify the concept of country pop crossover, with both artists maintaining a consistent presence on both the pop and country charts well into the mid-1980s, culminating in their duet, ""Islands in the Stream"", which topped the country and pop charts in 1983. Others, like John Denver, Olivia Newton-John, The Eagles, Faron Young, Willie Nelson, Dottie West, Alabama, Eddie Rabbitt, Ronnie Milsap, Anne Murray, and Crystal Gayle began successful in country but made the crossover to pop music. Conversely, Conway Twitty, England Dan Seals, former Righteous"
"on her prior duets with Kenny Rogers, Parton operated a Rogers ventriloquist's puppet against pre-recorded dialogue by Rogers and later while singing (against pre-recorded vocals by Rogers) ""Islands in the Stream"". The puppet was used at only a few of the shows during the East Coast portion of the show and the song subsequently dropped from the setlist. The setlist for the show was changed around quite a bit during the length of the tour. The ""Mountain Home"" segment, which often occurs towards the beginning of Parton's shows actually ended the shows in the first half of the tour. And"
"songs that appeared on the film's soundtrack. Some older artists from the 1960s and 1970s converted their sound to country pop or 'countrypolitan', such as Parton, Willie Nelson, and Dottie West. West, who had been around since the 1960s, completely changed her image into a more sexy and risky profile in the early 1980s, following a series of hit duets with Kenny Rogers. (Rogers also had a duet hit with Parton, the Bee Gees-penned ""Islands in the Stream"", which topped the country and pop singles charts in late 1983. The Bee Gees themselves have one credited country hit to their"
"it was issued as a single with ""Islands in the Stream"". In the US, this was the third single off the album with ""Hold Me"" as the B-side. The guitars were played by Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Tim Renwick and George Terry . ""Eyes That See in the Dark"" was originally performed by Barry Gibb as a guideline for Kenny Rogers. Months after Gibb recorded demos for Dionne Warwick and Warwick herself recorded ""Heartbreaker"" which was produced by Gibb. It was recorded in August 1982. This would be the first demo for an album by Rogers, as Gibb and Rogers"
"(1982) scraped the Top 50 that year and her duet with Kenny Rogers, ""Islands in the Stream"" (written by the Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb), spent two weeks at number one in 1983. In the mid-1980s, her record sales were still relatively strong, with ""Save the Last Dance for Me"", ""Downtown"", ""Tennessee Homesick Blues"" (1984), ""Real Love"" (another duet with Kenny Rogers), ""Don't Call It Love"" (1985) and ""Think About Love"" (1986) all reaching the country Top 10 (""Tennessee Homesick Blues"" and ""Think About Love"" reached number one; ""Real Love"" also reached number one on the country chart"
"You?"" album with Maurice playing instruments. The other songs intended for Kenny Rogers were written in late 1982, then at the start of 1983, Barry continued to record the demos until April 1983, while also recording songs with the Bee Gees for the film ""Staying Alive"". In August 1983, he produced Rogers' new album ""Eyes That See in the Dark"", which includes the song ""Islands in the Stream"" by Rogers and Dolly Parton which became one of the best-selling singles in country music. In August 1983, Irving Azoff signed Gibb to the MCA Records for North America. Gibb was signed"
"The finished instrumental tracks were dubbed onto the demos, and some of the guitar, bass, and synthesizer on the demos are heard in the completed mix. Ron Ziegler had to dub drums exactly in time with the drum machine used on the demos. Some of the musicians had also played on all of Andy Gibb's albums, Tim Renwick, George Terry, and Ron Ziegler. Barry and Maurice Gibb with Albhy Galuten appear both from the demo tracks and new recordings. ""Islands in the Stream"" was not a duet and Rogers was not happy with the recording. Only after Dolly Parton was"
"the Bee Gees and co-produced by Barry Gibb. The album reached No. 3 in the UK and the Top 30 in the US, where it was certified Gold. A year later, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers recorded the Bee Gees-penned track ""Islands in the Stream"", which became a US No. 1 hit and entered the Top 10 in the UK. Rogers' 1983 album, ""Eyes That See in the Dark"", was written entirely by the Bee Gees and co-produced by Barry. The album was a Top 10 hit in the US and was certified Double Platinum. The Bee Gees had greater"
"wish you love, I love you"" and then Dolly says ""Good Night"" and as the closing credits roll, Parton sings the rest of the song. Among the more well received installments, was one featuring the first televised performance of the ""Trio"" team: Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, a full decade before they released the first of their two critically acclaimed albums. The show also featured the first time Parton and Kenny Rogers had worked together; the two would top the country and pop charts in 1983 with their mega hit ""Islands in the Stream"". As Dolly's career became more"
"all 12 tracks (substituting ""Islands in the Stream"" for ""Hard Candy Christmas""). This album includes the 1982 version of ""I Will Always Love You"". Greatest Hits (Dolly Parton album) Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Dolly Parton, released in October 1982. It focused mostly on Parton's late 1970s pop hits. The original track list was revised a year later to include Parton's 1983 duet hit with Kenny Rogers, ""Islands in the Stream"". The album has since been reissued with an abbreviated track listing. This album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album was reissued"
"""Lady"" by Kenny Rogers, from the late fall of 1980; ""9 to 5"" by Dolly Parton, ""I Love a Rainy Night"" by Eddie Rabbitt (these two back-to-back at the top in early 1981); and ""Islands in the Stream"", a duet by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers in 1983, a pop-country crossover hit written by Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees. Newton's ""Queen of Hearts"" almost reached No. 1, but was kept out of the spot by the pop ballad juggernaut ""Endless Love"" by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie. The move of country music toward neotraditional styles led"
"1983's ""Islands in the Stream"" had done, stalling at number 91 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and number 13 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Unlike ""Islands in the Stream,"" ""Real Love"" was not composed by the Bee Gees who had composed and produced Rogers' 1983 chart topping album ""Eyes That See in the Dark"" which also included another four of Rogers' hit singles from 1983 and 1984, namely ""Buried Treasure"", ""This Woman"", ""Midsummer Nights"" and ""Evening Star"". Parton and Rogers embarked on a nine-city U.S. concert tour in February 1985, from which an HBO concert special, ""Real Love"" was filmed;"
"Rogers, the songs are ""You and I"", ""This Woman"" and ""Midsummer Nights"". Later in February, the Bee Gees recorded ""Breakout"" and ""River of Souls"" for the film. Also in February, Barry continued to record songs for Rogers' new album ""Hold Me"", ""Living with You"", ""Buried Treasure"" and ""Islands in the Stream"". The next month (March), the Bee Gees recorded ""The Woman in You"" (the last song recorded by the group for the film). In April 1983, the last recording sessions recorded by Barry for Rogers' album are ""Saying Good-Bye"", ""Evening Star"" and ""I Will Always Love You"". In May 1983,"
"on the song, performing the final verse and chorus, whilst Robin Gibb appears on the single as a backing vocalist. Re-titled ""(Barry) Islands in the Stream"", in reference to the Barry Island setting of ""Gavin & Stacey"", it entered at the top of the UK Singles Chart on March 15, 2009—for the week ending date March 21, 2009. This meant the Gibb Brothers had achieved number one songs in five successive decades, the first songwriters to achieve this feat. It also made Sir Tom Jones, at the age of 68, the oldest person to have a UK number one song."
"Duets (Kenny Rogers album) Duets was a special 1984 album released by Liberty Records from Kenny Rogers. It was issued after Rogers left the label and signed to RCA Records. ""Duets"" opens with ""We've Got Tonight"", a hit 1983 single with Sheena Easton. Side two begins with another classic duet, ""Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer"" with Kim Carnes from the 1980 album ""Gideon"". All of the remaining eight songs on the album are with Dottie West and come from his two collaboration albums with West, including the 1978 hit ""Every Time Two Fools Collide"" from the 1978 album"
"You Can't Make Old Friends (album) You Can't Make Old Friends is the twenty-seventh studio album from American country music artist Kenny Rogers. Released on October 8, 2013 via Warner Bros. Nashville, it is Rogers' first album of original material since 2006's ""Water & Bridges"". Its title track, a duet with Dolly Parton, peaked at number 57 on the ""Billboard"" Country Airplay chart in December 2013, becoming Rogers' first single released in six years. ""You Can't Make Old Friends"" was later included on Parton's 2014 album, ""Blue Smoke"". A cover version of ""You Can't Make Old Friends"", a duet between"
"excellence in the arts. The award is presented by the U.S. President. On December 3, 2006, Parton received the Kennedy Center Honors from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for her lifetime of contributions to the arts. During the show, some of country music's biggest names came to show their admiration. Carrie Underwood performed ""Islands in the Stream"" with Rogers, Parton's original duet partner. Krauss performed ""Jolene"" and duetted ""Coat of Many Colors"" with Twain. McEntire and Reese Witherspoon also came to pay tribute. On November 16, 2010, Parton accepted the Liseberg Applause Award, the theme park"
"falling (McKenzie giving a scream) into water (loud splash). Eventually the answer was finally given by a listener as ""Islands In The Stream"" (for the cryptic purposes of the quiz it was ""I Lands In The Stream"") by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. Whenever a correct answer was given, Mayo would play a congratulation stab of ""You! Are! A! Winner!"" before playing the record in question. After the record, he would then explain the cryptic clue in as little or much detail as deemed necessary. If a round of the ""Identik-Hit Quiz"" was guessed during a relief presenter's time on"
"Kenny Young Kenny Young is an American songwriter, producer and environmentalist who has been an active writer, artist, and producer from 1963 to the present. His most famous songs are ""Under the Boardwalk,"" co-written with Arthur Resnick, ""Ai No Corrida"", co-written with Chaz Jankel, ""Just a Little Bit Better"", ""SSSingle Bed', ""Captain of Your Ship"", Just One More Night"",and ""Only You Can"". ""Under the Boardwalk"" was recorded by The Drifters in 1964 and also by The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, John Mellencamp, Ricky Lee Jones, The Undertones, Aaron Neville, Bette Midler and many other artists. Young also wrote or"
"Project Earth, which raises awareness and funds for climate change projects and for natural disaster relief efforts. Kenny Young Kenny Young is an American songwriter, producer and environmentalist who has been an active writer, artist, and producer from 1963 to the present. His most famous songs are ""Under the Boardwalk,"" co-written with Arthur Resnick, ""Ai No Corrida"", co-written with Chaz Jankel, ""Just a Little Bit Better"", ""SSSingle Bed', ""Captain of Your Ship"", Just One More Night"",and ""Only You Can"". ""Under the Boardwalk"" was recorded by The Drifters in 1964 and also by The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, John Mellencamp,"
"Parton, ""Islands in the Stream"", is ""missing"" on this collection. However, this track was recorded with RCA Nashville after Kenny left Liberty. In addition to being issued on the popular formats of vinyl, cassette and compact disc, ""The Kenny Rogers Story"" was also issued on the short lived Digital Compact Cassette. The album was eventually deleted in the mid-1990s following the release of the similar themed collection ""Daytime Friends - The Very Best of Kenny Rogers"". The Kenny Rogers Story was a huge success reaching #1 in the UK country albums chart and #4 on the pop chart . It"
"and received a stem cell transplant at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland. Seals died at the age of 61, on March 25, 2009, at his daughter's home in Nashville. In 2010, a duet Seals had recorded with Juice Newton, covering Heart's 1986 hit ""These Dreams,"" was released on her album """". Four years after Seals' death, Kenny Rogers recorded Seals' composition, ""It's Gonna Be Easy Now."" The track is featured as the closing number on Rogers' album ""You Can't Make Old Friends"". Dan Seals Danny Wayland Seals (February 8, 1948 – March 25, 2009) was an American"
"Steven Smith, Gary Vanosdale, Samuel Terranova, Marvin Katahn Every Time Two Fools Collide Every Time Two Fools Collide is a duet album by country music singers Kenny Rogers and Dottie West. This was the duo's first album together. This was after Rogers entered the country market a couple of years back with his massive country pop crossover hit ""Lucille"" in spring of 1977, followed by a string of more big crossover hits. West, on the other hand, was struggling to keep afloat as a country singer, and needed help to bring her career back to where she was in the"
"John Rogers Thomas John Rogers Thomas (26 March 1829/30–5 April 1896) was an American composer, pianist, and singer of Welsh descent. Thomas was born in Newport, South Wales. A baritone and composer, he first came to America with the Sequin English Opera Company and became interested in the music of America that was developing. He sang and toured with Bryant's Minstrels and settled in New York City. He wrote more than one hundred popular American songs during the nineteenth century of which his most popular were ""The Cottage by the Sea"" (1856), ""Old Friends and Old Times"" (1856), ""Bonny Eloise—The"
"on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour that aired on 8 December 1968, the audience was unwittingly fooled to start clapping too soon, right after the false ending but way before the real ending. Bill Anderson's cover version of ""But You Know I Love You"" rose to No. 2 on the ""Billboard magazine"" Hot Country Singles chart in 1969. Country singer Dolly Parton (who, in 1983, would have the number 1 duet ""Islands In The Stream"" with Rogers) in 1980 included ""But You Know I Love You"", based on the occupation of on-the-road singer, on her album ""9 to 5 and"
"such as Rod Stewart, The Mission, and Kenny G. He also provided music for television advertisements and television programmes such as ""The Zoo"". As a writer, apart from ""Something in the Air"", ""Armenia City in the Sky"" and ""Club of Lights"", he wrote songs for The Swinging Blue Jeans (""Something's Coming Along"") and Crokodile Tears (""Your Love""). Keen died of heart failure in March 2002, seventeen days before his 57th birthday. Speedy Keen John David Percy ""Speedy"" Keen (29 March 1945 – 12 March 2002), was a songwriter, vocalist, drummer and keyboard player, best known for his association with the"
"Water & Bridges Water & Bridges is the twenty-sixth studio album by American country music singer Kenny Rogers. It was released on March 21, 2006 via Capitol Records Nashville. The album accounted for three singles: ""I Can't Unlove You,"" ""The Last Ten Years (Superman)"" and ""Calling Me,"" all of which charted on Hot Country Songs. These songs respectively reached peaks of 17, 56 and 53. Thom Jurek of Allmusic rated the album three stars out of five, saying that it ""isn't a perfect record, but it's a sincere one."" ""Someone Somewhere Tonight"" was later covered by Pam Tillis and Kellie"
"and The Dolls – ""The Human Condition"" Jeffree Star – ""Virginity"" ""They Lylas"" – Theme song Achy Breaky 2- feat Billy Ray Cyrus Beat Funktion ""Olympus"" - ""King Minos"" Beat Funktion ""Green Man"" - ""Over The Ocean"" Mike Tyson ""If You Show Up"" - ""Chris Brown"" Damon Elliott Damon William Elliott, also known as NomaD, (born March 21, 1973) is an American producer and singer. Damon has worked in several genres of music including Pop, hip hop, rock, R&B, gospel, reggae and country as a writer, composer, producer and recording artist. He is the co-founder and president of Confidential Records"
"like Cat Anderson, Harold Ashby, Barney Bigard, Lawrence Brown, Dave Brubeck (they recorded duets in 1975), Jaki Byard (duets in 1972), Benny Carter, Buck Clayton, Cozy Cole, Wallace Davenport, Eddie ""Lockjaw"" Davis, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington (duets in 1966), Ella Fitzgerald, Panama Francis, Bud Freeman, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Gonsalves, Stephane Grappelli, Sonny Greer, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Hinton, Johnny Hodges, Peanuts Hucko, Helen Humes, Budd Johnson, Jonah Jones, Max Kaminsky, Gene Krupa, Ellis Larkins, Shelly Manne, Marian McPartland (duets in 1970), Gerry Mulligan, Ray Nance, Oscar Peterson (duets in 1968), Russell Procope, Pee Wee Russell,"
"do follow Barry’s closely. The Gatlin Brothers contributed background vocals on ""Buried Treasure"" and ""Evening Star"", while the three members of the Bee Gees: Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb did the same on ""Living with You"". ""Islands in the Stream"" became a major hit, reaching #1 on both the ""Billboard"" pop and country charts. It turned out to be the #1 country chart song of 1983. Elsewhere on the album is ""Buried Treasure"", a single which was a top 3 country hit, the track ""This Woman"", which reached the top 20 on both the ""Billboard"" pop and country charts, while"
"You and I (Kenny Rogers song) ""You and I"" is a song written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb and was recorded and performed by Kenny Rogers from his 1983 album ""Eyes That See in the Dark"". Despite not being released as a single, it has been played on the radio, becoming one of Rogers' most popular songs. Barry Gibb sings background vocals on the intro, chorus, interlude (between the first chorus and second verse). The performer of the song sometimes credited to 'Kenny Rogers and the Bee Gees' because Barry used his falsetto. ""You and I"" was recorded around"