Kenny (album)

Kenny
Studio album by Kenny Rogers
Released	September 1979
Recorded	1979
Genre	Country
Length	36:02
Label	United Artists Group
Producer	Larry Butler
Kenny Rogers chronology
The Kenny Rogers Singles Album (1979) Kenny (1979) Gideon (1980)

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Kenny is the seventh studio album by Kenny Rogers, released in 1979. It includes the singles "Coward of the County" and "You Decorated My Life."

"Tulsa Turnaround" is a reworking of an earlier song Rogers recorded with The First Edition.

"Goodbye Marie" was later recorded by Bobby Goldsboro], charting as a single for him in early 1981.

The album reached #5 in the US pop charts and #1 in the country charts (where it stayed for a total of 25 weeks). In the UK, it reached the top 10 on the pop charts. In 2007 the album was issued as a two album set on one CD, the other album included on the disc being the self-titled Kenny Rogers from 1976.

In the sleevenotes for the 2009 reissue on the Edsel record label, biographer Chris Bolton notes that this album "does its best to represent every musical personality of Kenny Rogers." Stephen Thomas Erlewine states that the album mixes music styles from Country to Disco..

This album has sold 22 million copies world-wide.

Track listing

1. "You Turn the Light On" 3:03 (L. Anderson, Sean Geyer)
2. "You Decorated My Life" 3:38 (Deborah Kay Hupp, Robert E. Morrison)
3. "She's a Mystery" 2:54 (Larry Keith, Steve Pippin)
4. "Goodbye Marie" 2:47 (Dennis Linde, Mel McDaniel)
5. "Tulsa Turnaround" 2:52 (Larry Collins, Paul Cotton, Alex Harvey)
6. "I Want to Make You Smile" 3:20 (G.G. Allin)
7. "Santiago Midnight Moonlight" 3:14 (John Porter McMeans)
8. "One Man's Woman" 3:45 (Steve Glassmeyer)
9. "In and Out of Your Heart" 3:23 (Thomas Cain, Randy Cullers, Dennis Linde, Alan Rush)
10. "Old Folks" 2:44 (Willard Robison)
11. "Coward of the County" 4:22 (Roger D. Bowling, Billy Ed Wheeler)

Personnel

• Kenny Rogers - vocals
• Billy Sanford, Dave Kirby, Jerry Shook, Jimmy Capps, Johnny Chirstopher, Larry Keith, Randy Dorman, Ray Edenton, Reggie Young, Rick Harper, Steve Glassmeye - guitar
• Bob Moore, Charles "Chuck" Jacob, Joe Osborn, Tommy Allsup - bass
• Bobby Wood, Chuck Cochran, Davis Briggs, Edgar Struble, Gene Golden, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Larry Keith, Shane Keister - keyboards
• Edgar Struble - synthesizer
• Bobby Thompson - banjo
• Bobby Daniels - drums
• Farrell Morris - percussion
• Steve Glassmeyer - saxophone
• Bergen White, Bobby Daniels, Buzz Cason, Don Gant, Donna McElroy, Edgar Struble, Lea Jane Berinati, Steve Glassmeyer, Todd Cerney, Tom Brannon, Yvonne Godges - background vocals
• Sheldon Kurland strings - strings
• Bill Justis, Edgar Struble - string arrangements

Chart performance

Chart (1979)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	5
Canadian RPM Country Albums	1
Canadian RPM Top Albums	1

References

Preceded by Greatest Hits by Waylon Jennings	Top Country Albums number-one album November 10, 1979 - April 26, 1980	Succeeded by There's a Little Bit of Hank in Me by Charley Pride
Preceded by Greatest Hits by Waylon Jennings I'll Always Love You by Anne Murray I'll Always Love You by Anne Murray Sings Kristofferson by Willie Nelson	RPM Country Albums number-one album October 27 - December 15, 1979 January 12 - February 16, 1980 March 15–22, 1980 April 19, 1980	Succeeded by I'll Always Love You by Anne Murray I'll Always Love You by Anne Murray Sings Kristofferson by Willie Nelson Together by The Oak Ridge Boys
Preceded by The Gambler by Kenny Rogers	Top Country Albums number-one album of the year 1980	Succeeded by 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs by Dolly Parton