Portrait of a Legend Kenny Rogers (1981) Kenny Rogers was born as Kenneth Donald Rogers in Texas in 1938, and in the US has spent over 200 weeks in the charts covering many musical genres, but mostly of course country and western. Kenny had minor hits in the 1950s and 1960s, but then in the late 60s he joined the band called "The First Edition", which of course later became Kenny Rogers and The First edition.
The first single to enter the 70s music chart was the 1969 release of "Ruby, Don't take your love to town" The song was originally a hit in 1967 by Johnny Darrell, who died in 1997. https://hits-of-the-70s.blogspot.com/2011/02/70s-artist-watch-kenny-rogers.html
