Kenny Rogers, 1938-2020
March 21, 2020 4:05 AM Subscribe
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Is In). The Gambler. Coward of the County. Islands in the Stream. Kenny Rogers, "who dominated the pop and country charts in the 1970s and 1980s with a string of sleekly tailored hits and won three Grammys, has died".
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posted by runincircles at 4:11 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by runincircles at 4:11 AM on March 21, 2020
This one hurts!!!
“Through the years” is literally in my top 5 list of absolute all-time, all-genre favorite songs. It might be #1.
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posted by Melismata at 4:15 AM on March 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
“Through the years” is literally in my top 5 list of absolute all-time, all-genre favorite songs. It might be #1.
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posted by Melismata at 4:15 AM on March 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
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posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:18 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:18 AM on March 21, 2020
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You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run"
posted by mfoight at 4:29 AM on March 21, 2020 [17 favorites]
You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run"
posted by mfoight at 4:29 AM on March 21, 2020 [17 favorites]
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posted by crocomancer at 4:37 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by crocomancer at 4:37 AM on March 21, 2020
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"I've had some bad times, lived through some sad times
But this time your hurting won't heal"
posted by fourpotatoes at 4:38 AM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
"I've had some bad times, lived through some sad times
But this time your hurting won't heal"
posted by fourpotatoes at 4:38 AM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
Liked this one, produced by none other than George Martin.
posted by texorama at 4:56 AM on March 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by texorama at 4:56 AM on March 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
"I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in."
posted by Mogur at 4:57 AM on March 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Mogur at 4:57 AM on March 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
He was an avatar of a certain kind of masculinity, one of the softer kinds from back in the day. He was so iconic and inescapable for at least a couple of decades. He wasn't seen much lately, but his influence will always remain.
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posted by hippybear at 5:10 AM on March 21, 2020 [19 favorites]
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posted by hippybear at 5:10 AM on March 21, 2020 [19 favorites]
Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers Dot Com was one of the joys of the early Wed. That's good Kenny!
posted by thelonius at 5:13 AM on March 21, 2020 [11 favorites]
posted by thelonius at 5:13 AM on March 21, 2020 [11 favorites]
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posted by theBigRedKittyPurrs at 5:18 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by theBigRedKittyPurrs at 5:18 AM on March 21, 2020
Here is the Muppet Show version of "The Gambler", which is how I was first introduced to Kenny Rogers.
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posted by dannyboybell at 5:23 AM on March 21, 2020 [28 favorites]
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posted by dannyboybell at 5:23 AM on March 21, 2020 [28 favorites]
Brings me back to a Spanish Colonial console stereo with sparkly gold fabric behind brown woodgrain grilles, a sky blue shag carpet, in a brand new split-level in a brand new subdivision. One of my mum's favourites singers.
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posted by bonobothegreat at 5:29 AM on March 21, 2020 [25 favorites]
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posted by bonobothegreat at 5:29 AM on March 21, 2020 [25 favorites]
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posted by snuffleupagus at 6:01 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by snuffleupagus at 6:01 AM on March 21, 2020
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I can't stand country music. Exceptions, Coat of Many Colors, On The Road Again, and best of all The Gambler. Here's my favourite version.
When I was a kid I had a babysitter who I loved so much I called her "mom". She was a country music lover and had an eight-track machine in her kitchen that she'd use to play Kenny Rogers and Willie Nelson. They've kept a special place in my heart.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 6:06 AM on March 21, 2020 [4 favorites]
I can't stand country music. Exceptions, Coat of Many Colors, On The Road Again, and best of all The Gambler. Here's my favourite version.
When I was a kid I had a babysitter who I loved so much I called her "mom". She was a country music lover and had an eight-track machine in her kitchen that she'd use to play Kenny Rogers and Willie Nelson. They've kept a special place in my heart.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 6:06 AM on March 21, 2020 [4 favorites]
In 1967 First Edition played on the old Steel Pier in Atlantic City. My sister and ten-year-old me stood among maybe 100 kids listening to them perform in a corner of a huge, empty ballroom—technically my first live concert. The echoes were so bad we barely recognized “Just Dropped In” which had just started getting radio play.
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posted by kinnakeet at 6:10 AM on March 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
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posted by kinnakeet at 6:10 AM on March 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
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posted by haiku warrior at 6:13 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by haiku warrior at 6:13 AM on March 21, 2020
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"Islands in the Stream" is the first radio hit I remember growing attached to. I think I was three or four at the time.
posted by eirias at 6:15 AM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
"Islands in the Stream" is the first radio hit I remember growing attached to. I think I was three or four at the time.
posted by eirias at 6:15 AM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
I unabashedly and unironically love Kenny Rogers. This was an early social distancing technique in the 1980s in Berkeley CA, but I didn't & don't care.
Everyone considered him/The coward of the county.
posted by chavenet at 6:16 AM on March 21, 2020 [10 favorites]
Everyone considered him/The coward of the county.
posted by chavenet at 6:16 AM on March 21, 2020 [10 favorites]
Not enough people know that Kenny Rogers was an excellent landscape, portrait, and celebrity photographer, having studied with John Sexton and Yousef Karsh.
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posted by cenoxo at 6:19 AM on March 21, 2020 [20 favorites]
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posted by cenoxo at 6:19 AM on March 21, 2020 [20 favorites]
I'm not super into this style of country/country-alt-rock but I've always been a lifelong fan of Kenny Rogers. And like you chavenet, it's unabashed and unironic. He's just good to listen to. This is hitting me a bit in a way I didn't realize or expect, so I'll end with a nice pleasant memory from my childhood.
When I was younger, I thought that Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton were married because I saw them on Hee-Haw together and probably a cassette tape album or something. Just how my little mind worked, I was like, oh they're smiling and singing and they look good together, they must be married.
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posted by Fizz at 6:21 AM on March 21, 2020 [10 favorites]
When I was younger, I thought that Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton were married because I saw them on Hee-Haw together and probably a cassette tape album or something. Just how my little mind worked, I was like, oh they're smiling and singing and they look good together, they must be married.
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posted by Fizz at 6:21 AM on March 21, 2020 [10 favorites]
The 70s were wild. Kenny Rogers pulled out a fake bottle of whiskey (or was it fake?) and handed it to a puppet on a prime-time show promoted to kids. That album was one of the first records I owned.
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posted by COD at 6:51 AM on March 21, 2020 [19 favorites]
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posted by COD at 6:51 AM on March 21, 2020 [19 favorites]
Thank you, Kenny, for showing my much-younger self that an "I don't like country music" attitude was narrow-minded and just denying myself enjoyment of a lot of cool stuff.
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posted by sourcequench at 7:09 AM on March 21, 2020 [5 favorites]
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posted by sourcequench at 7:09 AM on March 21, 2020 [5 favorites]
That Crazy Feeling was apparently his first single to chart. He was a stylistic chameleon.
posted by clawsoon at 7:10 AM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by clawsoon at 7:10 AM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
It was once said about KR, "The problem is that Kenny is too pop for country and too country for pop."
Great artist who will be missed.
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posted by AugustWest at 7:11 AM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
Great artist who will be missed.
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posted by AugustWest at 7:11 AM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
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posted by Mister Moofoo at 7:12 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by Mister Moofoo at 7:12 AM on March 21, 2020
It's the wood that makes it good.
posted by Keith Talent at 7:20 AM on March 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Keith Talent at 7:20 AM on March 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
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posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:28 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:28 AM on March 21, 2020
Some of my earliest memories are of singing along to Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton while bouncing down the road in the rear-facing back seat our Buick station wagon.
Farewell, Kenny. The Gambler broke even.
posted by Gray Duck at 7:30 AM on March 21, 2020 [9 favorites]
Farewell, Kenny. The Gambler broke even.
posted by Gray Duck at 7:30 AM on March 21, 2020 [9 favorites]
Oh, man, this hits hard. His music was on heavy rotation in the soundtrack of my childhood. We probably wore the grooves out of The Gambler.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:31 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:31 AM on March 21, 2020
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I was around 8 or 9 when The Gambler hit big. That song was on the radio ALL THE TIME and the radio was on all the time. So much radio back then. But we had FM... no static at all. Anyway, I loved that song. My grandmother (who we lived with then) liked him too, even if she was more of a Willie Nelson lady in general.
posted by SoberHighland at 7:52 AM on March 21, 2020
I was around 8 or 9 when The Gambler hit big. That song was on the radio ALL THE TIME and the radio was on all the time. So much radio back then. But we had FM... no static at all. Anyway, I loved that song. My grandmother (who we lived with then) liked him too, even if she was more of a Willie Nelson lady in general.
posted by SoberHighland at 7:52 AM on March 21, 2020
Someone on twitter just mentioned this gem.
And there was mutual admiration between Prince and Kenny. Tip to Anil Dash, twitter source of all things Prince.
Mr. Rogers got a lot of play in my house growing up as my dad was a country music fan. Kenny, Willy and Waylon. It was good music to grow up with.
posted by theBigRedKittyPurrs at 7:55 AM on March 21, 2020 [5 favorites]
And there was mutual admiration between Prince and Kenny. Tip to Anil Dash, twitter source of all things Prince.
Mr. Rogers got a lot of play in my house growing up as my dad was a country music fan. Kenny, Willy and Waylon. It was good music to grow up with.
posted by theBigRedKittyPurrs at 7:55 AM on March 21, 2020 [5 favorites]
Dolly recorded a video for him this morning. My parents' song for the second half of their marriage was "Through the Years," and they would slow dance in the kitchen when it came on the stereo. Kenny and Dolly's Once Upon a Christmas is a standard on our holiday playlists. Even the grandchildren loved "The Gambler." There is some version of "Islands in the Stream" where Dolly comes through the audience and "surprises" him for her part of the duet that thrilled my sister and me when we were kids, but I can't find it on yt. Sigh.
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posted by gladly at 8:11 AM on March 21, 2020 [8 favorites]
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posted by gladly at 8:11 AM on March 21, 2020 [8 favorites]
Six Pack was a staple movie of my childhood. Don’t remember if it was on tv all the time or if there was a VHS of it floating around the house. I loved that movie and always wished I could trade my father in for Kenny Rogers.
posted by bilabial at 8:12 AM on March 21, 2020 [6 favorites]
posted by bilabial at 8:12 AM on March 21, 2020 [6 favorites]
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posted by mcdoublewide at 8:21 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by mcdoublewide at 8:21 AM on March 21, 2020
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"and the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep" - the lyric from The Gambler that was (and still is) my most haunting earworm. Kenny didn't just break even, he finished way ahead.
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:23 AM on March 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
"and the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep" - the lyric from The Gambler that was (and still is) my most haunting earworm. Kenny didn't just break even, he finished way ahead.
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:23 AM on March 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
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Every gambler knows
That the secret to survivin'
Is knowin' what to throw away
And knowin' what to keep
'Cause every hand's a winner
And every hand's a loser
And the best that you can hope for is to die
in your sleep
posted by Flannery Culp at 8:28 AM on March 21, 2020 [9 favorites]
Every gambler knows
That the secret to survivin'
Is knowin' what to throw away
And knowin' what to keep
'Cause every hand's a winner
And every hand's a loser
And the best that you can hope for is to die
in your sleep
posted by Flannery Culp at 8:28 AM on March 21, 2020 [9 favorites]
My father was a big Kenny Rogers fan when I was young, so I got to see him in concert once in the 1970s. Gallagher was the opening act, watermelon squishins' and all.
At one point, I remember Kenny addressing the audience with "I want y'all to know that we will be recording tonight for a television special. So if you're in the front rows with someone you're not supposed to be with, now's the time to go."
posted by delfin at 8:28 AM on March 21, 2020 [18 favorites]
At one point, I remember Kenny addressing the audience with "I want y'all to know that we will be recording tonight for a television special. So if you're in the front rows with someone you're not supposed to be with, now's the time to go."
posted by delfin at 8:28 AM on March 21, 2020 [18 favorites]
"The Gambler" is a song I know every word to and often sing in the shower...in a very poor imitation of Kenny.
(There was a post a couple of years ago which was "oral histories" of great pop songs, and "The Gambler" was one of them.)
posted by maxwelton at 8:36 AM on March 21, 2020
(There was a post a couple of years ago which was "oral histories" of great pop songs, and "The Gambler" was one of them.)
posted by maxwelton at 8:36 AM on March 21, 2020
Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits was a staple in my family. We owned it in at least four formats - 8 track, cassette, cd and mp3 - and when my 7th grade class played the Gambler for our spring guitar recital, I already knew all the words.
But then my mom saw him in concert and he was kind of a dick to people who sang along in the audience and she didn't like him near as much after that. She is probably over it by now, but he kinda went away from our living room for awhile there.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:42 AM on March 21, 2020
But then my mom saw him in concert and he was kind of a dick to people who sang along in the audience and she didn't like him near as much after that. She is probably over it by now, but he kinda went away from our living room for awhile there.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:42 AM on March 21, 2020
OK, I do have a memory or two re: Kenny's music. "Lucille" came out when I was 7. By then, my aunt had lost her record store, her bar, and her office cleaning businesses, but hadn't found a new job. She was "saved", yes, but hadn't gone full fundy Pentecostal yet. So she'd get her son and me ready for school in the mornings, and have the radio on "Sunny 920", WOKY AM. This song got a lot of play on that station for several months. I misinterpreted the chorus as I'd squeak/sing along at breakfast (my speaking voice in those days was damn near a dog whistle), and then on the school bus (the morning driver would play the pop or the hard rock station, depending on his mood).
"You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille! Four hundred children and a crop in the field...!"
Auntie'd giggle at me and never corrected me. I didn't learn the right words until I was 19 and working at a record store. My manager put the greatest hits on one day, and finally!
And there was one boy in my church's kids choir who would sing Kenny's part and I'd take Dolly's for "Islands in the Stream" during breaks in our Saturday rehearsals when we were all 13/14.
Thanks, Kenny.
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posted by droplet at 9:08 AM on March 21, 2020 [5 favorites]
"You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille! Four hundred children and a crop in the field...!"
Auntie'd giggle at me and never corrected me. I didn't learn the right words until I was 19 and working at a record store. My manager put the greatest hits on one day, and finally!
And there was one boy in my church's kids choir who would sing Kenny's part and I'd take Dolly's for "Islands in the Stream" during breaks in our Saturday rehearsals when we were all 13/14.
Thanks, Kenny.
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posted by droplet at 9:08 AM on March 21, 2020 [5 favorites]
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posted by JoeXIII007 at 9:09 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by JoeXIII007 at 9:09 AM on March 21, 2020
Oh my. Last night I was struggling to find a face for my cliched "dad's best friend will keep an eye on you while dad is out of town even though you're grown woman" fantasy and now I've found it.
I'm sorry if that's inappropriate.
posted by ihaveyourfoot at 9:20 AM on March 21, 2020 [5 favorites]
I'm sorry if that's inappropriate.
posted by ihaveyourfoot at 9:20 AM on March 21, 2020 [5 favorites]
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posted by cmfletcher at 9:26 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by cmfletcher at 9:26 AM on March 21, 2020
It should also be noted that he was a monster bass player back in his rock days. The singing while playing kind.
posted by quarterframer at 9:29 AM on March 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by quarterframer at 9:29 AM on March 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
I also had a babysitter who adored Kenny. She'd play The Gambler in the kitchen while cooking dinner, and tasked me with sitting at a table nearby with the personal ads, circling every man who described himself as a "Kenny Rogers type" to help her find a husband. There were a surprising lot of such candidates, and she did eventually marry one.
posted by apparently at 9:39 AM on March 21, 2020 [16 favorites]
posted by apparently at 9:39 AM on March 21, 2020 [16 favorites]
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posted by LobsterMitten at 9:57 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by LobsterMitten at 9:57 AM on March 21, 2020
This is the best possible story about Kenny Rogers that can ever be told.
posted by ardgedee at 10:14 AM on March 21, 2020 [11 favorites]
posted by ardgedee at 10:14 AM on March 21, 2020 [11 favorites]
> It should also be noted that he was a monster bass player back in his rock days.
Dunno about "monster" but he was good. Here he jams with Dudley Moore on "Satin Doll" (and biffs the solo).
posted by ardgedee at 10:25 AM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
Dunno about "monster" but he was good. Here he jams with Dudley Moore on "Satin Doll" (and biffs the solo).
posted by ardgedee at 10:25 AM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
It just occurred to me that the first part of the chorus of "The Gambler" is an awful lot like the AA Serenity Prayer.
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posted by Halloween Jack at 10:45 AM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
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posted by Halloween Jack at 10:45 AM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
For an embarrassingly long time, I assumed that since Dolly Parton founded Dollywood, Kenny Rogers must have founded Kennywood.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 11:04 AM on March 21, 2020 [8 favorites]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 11:04 AM on March 21, 2020 [8 favorites]
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"Personally, I found out that I can't win enough to excite me, but I can lose enough to depress me. So, I kind of stay away from it." - Kenny Rogers
Words to live by.
posted by ensign_ricky at 11:48 AM on March 21, 2020 [5 favorites]
"Personally, I found out that I can't win enough to excite me, but I can lose enough to depress me. So, I kind of stay away from it." - Kenny Rogers
Words to live by.
posted by ensign_ricky at 11:48 AM on March 21, 2020 [5 favorites]
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posted by Silverstone at 11:49 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by Silverstone at 11:49 AM on March 21, 2020
Here's a longer version of a wondeful Q&A with Kenny Rogers that appeared in Rolling Stone back in 2000.
posted by General Malaise at 11:50 AM on March 21, 2020
posted by General Malaise at 11:50 AM on March 21, 2020
Kenny Rogers must have founded Kennywood
I was today years old when I learned this is not true.
posted by Flannery Culp at 11:51 AM on March 21, 2020 [7 favorites]
I was today years old when I learned this is not true.
posted by Flannery Culp at 11:51 AM on March 21, 2020 [7 favorites]
Kenny occupies kind of a weird place in my childhood. He was exceptionally well known. People I loved listened to his music. I grew up knowing the refrain to The Gambler. But that was the only song of his I remember knowing. And that's all I'll ever know as now I'm deaf and Kenny Rogers is dead. Gosh.
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posted by Fukiyama at 11:56 AM on March 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
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posted by Fukiyama at 11:56 AM on March 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
I am trying to think of another song that spawned so many TV movies, and is just a classic song to boot. (There are five films in The Gambler Cinematic Universe.) Thanks for being a constant voice in my childhood.
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posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 12:02 PM on March 21, 2020 [4 favorites]
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posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 12:02 PM on March 21, 2020 [4 favorites]
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Didn't really care for his music, but he obviously gave a lot of pleasure to a lot of people.
A clip of one of his Muppet Show appearances (hankies at the ready!).
posted by praemunire at 12:53 PM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
Didn't really care for his music, but he obviously gave a lot of pleasure to a lot of people.
A clip of one of his Muppet Show appearances (hankies at the ready!).
posted by praemunire at 12:53 PM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
Gen X goth over here crying like she lost a favorite uncle.
posted by _paegan_ at 12:53 PM on March 21, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by _paegan_ at 12:53 PM on March 21, 2020 [7 favorites]
I'd say about 43% of my understanding of how toxic masculinity is established and maintained is based on "Coward of the County".
posted by clawsoon at 12:54 PM on March 21, 2020 [9 favorites]
posted by clawsoon at 12:54 PM on March 21, 2020 [9 favorites]
♦️♣️♥️♠️
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:05 PM on March 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:05 PM on March 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
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posted by zengargoyle at 1:08 PM on March 21, 2020
posted by zengargoyle at 1:08 PM on March 21, 2020
Now that damn gambler song is playing in my head for the indefinite future.
He will be remembered whether people want to or not, but on balance, I do want to.
posted by jamjam at 1:13 PM on March 21, 2020
He will be remembered whether people want to or not, but on balance, I do want to.
posted by jamjam at 1:13 PM on March 21, 2020
One of my favorite covers, filmed in the van driving between gigs.
Islands in the Stream
posted by bartleby at 1:21 PM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
Islands in the Stream
posted by bartleby at 1:21 PM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
Damnit praemunire, I was not ready for that.
To add a note to my . above, I once described the music of my childhood to a friend as "country music and show tunes". Kenny Rogers was one of the country music blocks. I am genuinely sad at his passing as it means another block of my childhood has passed as well. I know that it is life, but damn, it brings up all sorts of feelings about the life-crap I've had to deal with since my mom died three years ago.
posted by theBigRedKittyPurrs at 1:25 PM on March 21, 2020 [4 favorites]
To add a note to my . above, I once described the music of my childhood to a friend as "country music and show tunes". Kenny Rogers was one of the country music blocks. I am genuinely sad at his passing as it means another block of my childhood has passed as well. I know that it is life, but damn, it brings up all sorts of feelings about the life-crap I've had to deal with since my mom died three years ago.
posted by theBigRedKittyPurrs at 1:25 PM on March 21, 2020 [4 favorites]
AugustWest: "It was once said about KR, "The problem is that Kenny is too pop for country and too country for pop."
by him, himself:
It’s striking that you’ve had such enduring success, because you don’t fit within any category.
I’ve always been too pop for country and too country for pop. And I never felt I was a particularly good singer; when I listen to my voice, it’s like, E-yuch. But I’ve always felt that I had a real knack for picking hit songs, songs that had really interesting stories or plot twists. I’m a storyteller.
(in the Interview that General Malaise linked to above)
posted by chavenet at 1:50 PM on March 21, 2020 [5 favorites]
by him, himself:
It’s striking that you’ve had such enduring success, because you don’t fit within any category.
I’ve always been too pop for country and too country for pop. And I never felt I was a particularly good singer; when I listen to my voice, it’s like, E-yuch. But I’ve always felt that I had a real knack for picking hit songs, songs that had really interesting stories or plot twists. I’m a storyteller.
(in the Interview that General Malaise linked to above)
posted by chavenet at 1:50 PM on March 21, 2020 [5 favorites]
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posted by Kevin Street at 3:11 PM on March 21, 2020
posted by Kevin Street at 3:11 PM on March 21, 2020
Aw, man.
I was obsessed with Ruby when I was young. I mean, there's definitely some...not great optics in it, but it's still a great listen, especially at the bridge with the scratching and no other instruments.
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posted by kitten kaboodle at 5:32 PM on March 21, 2020
I was obsessed with Ruby when I was young. I mean, there's definitely some...not great optics in it, but it's still a great listen, especially at the bridge with the scratching and no other instruments.
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posted by kitten kaboodle at 5:32 PM on March 21, 2020
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posted by SonInLawOfSam at 5:50 PM on March 21, 2020
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posted by get off of my cloud at 7:45 PM on March 21, 2020
posted by get off of my cloud at 7:45 PM on March 21, 2020
I tried to post this last night but asked for it to be deleted because it was so disjointed. Thank you clawsoon.
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posted by bendy at 11:11 PM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
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posted by bendy at 11:11 PM on March 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
When I was a kid in the 70s whenever me and my dad were in the car together we'd listen to either Simon and Garfunkel's greatest hits or the local country music station, KSSN. 70's country was awesome and I'll always remember Kenny Rogers.
posted by bendy at 11:16 PM on March 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by bendy at 11:16 PM on March 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
Dean Martin introduces Kenny Rogers
posted by philip-random at 11:18 PM on March 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by philip-random at 11:18 PM on March 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
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posted by oneironaut at 7:38 AM on March 22, 2020
posted by oneironaut at 7:38 AM on March 22, 2020
This one is especially poignant now, another duet with Dolly Parton: You Can’t Make Old Friends. A lovely song, and a lovely friendship.
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posted by LooseFilter at 9:44 AM on March 22, 2020 [3 favorites]
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posted by LooseFilter at 9:44 AM on March 22, 2020 [3 favorites]
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posted by dogstoevski at 11:37 AM on March 22, 2020
posted by dogstoevski at 11:37 AM on March 22, 2020
For those like me who thought his career started in the late 1960s with First Edition, we were apparently off by an entire decade:
That Crazy Feeling (1957) "Charted at #51 on Cash Box Top 100 chart in May 1958. Kenny's first solo single, then billed as Kenneth Rogers."
posted by Atom Eyes at 9:55 AM on March 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
That Crazy Feeling (1957) "Charted at #51 on Cash Box Top 100 chart in May 1958. Kenny's first solo single, then billed as Kenneth Rogers."
posted by Atom Eyes at 9:55 AM on March 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
Remembering the Gentle Excess of Kenny Rogers
Cheerful, flamboyant, and hirsute, he looked and sounded like a luxurious bearskin rug, his voice so brawny and searingly warm it’d compel you to slip into something more comfortable no matter what he was singing, no matter what you were previously wearing.posted by kirkaracha at 4:14 PM on March 23, 2020 [2 favorites]
Damn, that pull quote is a piece of writing, kirkaracha.
posted by jacquilynne at 5:30 PM on March 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by jacquilynne at 5:30 PM on March 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
The soundtrack to one of the greatest movie scenes ever:
The Big Lebowski - Gutterballs
posted by diekhans at 6:42 PM on March 24, 2020 [1 favorite]
The Big Lebowski - Gutterballs
posted by diekhans at 6:42 PM on March 24, 2020 [1 favorite]
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