Kenny Rogers - 21 Number Ones
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Artist: Kenny RogersEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- The Gambler
- Through The Years
- Lady
- Lucille
- Coward of The County
- I Don't Need You
- We've Got Tonight (with Sheena Easton)
- Crazy
- Islands In The Stream (with Dolly Parton)
- She Believes In Me
- Every Time Two Fools Collide (with Dottie West)
- You Decorated My Life
- Make No Mistake, She's Mine (with Ronnie Milsap)
- Share Your Love With Me
- All I Ever Need Is You
- Buy Me A Rose (with Alison Krauss)
- Daytime Friends
- Love Or Something Like It
- Love Will Turn You Around
- Morning Desire
- What Are We Doing In Love (with Dottie West)
- Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer (with Kim Carnes)- Bonus Track
Music reviews of 21 Number Ones
Music Review: Pretty Much Delivers What It Says In The Title
Rating: 5 Stars
In many of my CD reviews I belabor the point regarding what constitutes an artist's "greatest" or "best" hits, offering up the argument that, to most fans out there, the term denotes those songs that made the national singles charts, whether the Billboard Pop Hot 100, Adult Contemporary (AC), R&B or Country. Now, sifting through the 2- and 3-star reviews for this release I see there are some who beg to differ. In the 2-star assessment the reviewer states flat out that these are "not Kenny's best" while in one of the 3-star reviews it states "... did not contain what I would call his greatest hits .... some of them never appeared high in the charts."
Well, for starters, this is titled "21 Number Ones" and, in that regard, that's exactly what they deliver. It may be argued that some of his tunes which charted lower were better - and I'd probably agree since quite often a # 2 or 3 finished there simply because another monster hit or two was competing at the time. But here they decided to present 21 of his # 1's. For the record, Kenny has (to date) 22 such hits, so if there's a complaint it revolves around why producer Rob Christie decided to include, as a bonus track, one that did not make it to # 1 on any of the charts.
That missing hit is What About Me? on RCA 13899 in the fall of 1984, billed to Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes and James Ingram which finished at # 1 AC/# 15 Hot 100/# 57 R&B and # 70 Country. You can count on the fingers of one hand the songs that made all four charts! The bonus track, Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer, was a # 2 AC/# 3 Country and # 4 Hot 100 in the spring of 1980 on United Artists 1345, billed to Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes. Certainly a major hit, but not in keeping with the title of the album which, if called 22 Numbers Ones, could just as easily have contained that missing # 1.
But that's a minor quibble. These are, despite some contentions, definitely among his greatest hits, presented in impeccable sound and with an insert containing six pages of track-by-track comments from Kenny, followed by chart performances, and sprinkled with several more nice photos of Kenny.
As for that other 2-star review that claims the cuts are missing the last 3-5 seconds, I can only conclude that he may be having a problem with his CD player because they're just fine in that regard, including Lady which is NOT missing the final chord.
Description of 21 Number Ones
The gravel-and-grits voice of Kenny Rogers ultimately came to define the "Urban Cowboy" era of pop excess, even as the earlier "Lucille" and "The Gambler" were some of the most galvanizing story songs in country music's history. Looking back at this body of hits, it's easy to poke fun at the treacley "You Decorated My Life" or wince at the cheesy string arrangements on "Through the Years." It's also natural to wish Rogers had never heard of Sheena Easton, his misguided duet partner on "We've Got Tonight," and recorded more with the soulful, sad Dottie West ("Every Time Two Fools Collide") and the randy Dolly Parton ("Islands in the Stream"). (A bonus track, "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer," pairs him with old pal Kim Carnes.) As the years went by, Rogers got fatter, lazier, and more content to make crappy TV movies and wallow in the flaccid sentimentality of adult contemporary pop ("Buy Me a Rose"). He also got smug--the worst of sins for a man in his business. But behind the microphone, he always knew how to make even the hoariest of lyrics resonate with feeling. And at his peak, he was the perfect male country superstar, equal parts swagger and sweet, sweet promise. --Alanna NashGeneral CDs
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