Disc 3
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Love Lifted Me ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 2. Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got) ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 3. While The Feeling's Good ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 4. Sweet Music Man ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 5. Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight - (with Dottie West) ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 6. 'Til I Can Make It on My Own - (with Dottie West) ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 7. Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer - (with Kim Carnes) ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 8. Love The World Away ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 9. Share Your Love With Me ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 10. Blaze Of Glory ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 11. Through The Years ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 12. Love Song ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 13. All My Life ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 14. Scarlet Fever ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 15. You Were A Good Friend ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 16. Buried Treasure ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 17. Greatest Gift Of All, The - (with Dolly Parton) ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 18. Together Again - (with Dottie West) ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 19. What About Me - (with Kim Carnes/James Ingram) ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 20. Eyes That See In The Dark ~ Kenny Rogers |  | Disc 4
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. This Woman ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 2. Evening Star ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 3. Twentieth Century Fool ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 4. Love Is What We Make It ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 5. Twenty Years Ago ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 6. They Don't Make Them Like They Used To ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 7. Pride Is Back, The - (with Nickie Ryder) ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 8. Goodbye Marie ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 9. I Perfer The Moonlight ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 10. Factory, The ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 11. When You Put Your Heart In It ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 12. Planet Texas ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 13. If I Ever Fall In Love Again - (with Anne Murray) ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 14. Vows Go Unbroken, The (Always True To You) ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 15. Maybe - (with Holly Dunn) ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 16. Love Is Strange - (with Dolly Parton) ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 17. If You Want To Find Love ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 18. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 19. Unforgettable ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
| 20. Write Your Name Across My Heart ~ Kenny Rogers |  |
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Full title: Through The Years: A Retrospective. |  | THROUGH THE YEARS: A RETROSPECTIVE includes several unreleased tracks and rarities. Contains 80 tracks. |  | All tracks have been digitally remastered. |  | The thorough, four-disc THROUGH THE YEARS: A RETROSPECTIVE may be a bit daunting for the casual listener who just wants Kenny Rogers's best-known songs (the single-disc 20 GREATEST HITS is good for that), but it's essential listening for all other Rogers fans. The second and third discs collect all of the biggest solo and duet hits and Rogers's most-loved material, while the fourth disc covers his finest songs from the mid-1980s through the '90s. However, it's the first disc that's of the greatest interest. Besides functioning as an excellent best-of compilation of Rogers's underrated country-pop group, the First Edition, this disc includes many songs from Rogers's early Texas bands, most of them folk-rock tunes never before available on CD, and all of them surprisingly worthwhile examples of his pre-stardom journeyman years. Hearing this material ties together the seemingly disparate elements Rogers's long and impressive career. |
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| Artist Overview |
| Kenny Rogers's career hit its monumental peak between 1977 and 1987, during which time his combination of soft pop production and country/western themes dominated the country and pop charts. In the preceding years, Rogers performed as a member of the New Christy Minstrels, then experimented with country-tinged rock with the First Edition (scoring a hit with the druggy "Just Dropped In [To See What Condition My Condition Was In]"). During his heyday, he scored an incomprehensible number of classic hits including "Lady," "Coward of the County," and his signature, "The Gambler." In later years, Rogers has branched out into such multifarious enterprises as acting, entertainment managing, chicken franchises, and livestock breeding. |
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