Kenny Rogers & The First Edition (RSD 2023) Violet Vinyl

Brand new sealed RSD 2023 double LP, Album, Trans-Violet vinyl.

Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, until 1970 billed as The First Edition, were an American rock band. The band's style was difficult to singularly classify, as it incorporated elements of country, rock and psychedelic pop.^[3] Its stalwart members were Kenny Rogers (lead vocals and bass guitar), Mickey Jones (drums and percussion) and Terry Williams (guitar and vocals). The band formed in 1967, with folk musician Mike Settle (guitar and backing vocals) and the operatically-trained Thelma Camacho (lead vocals) completing the lineup.

As the counterculture of the 1960s was developing, the First Edition signed with Reprise Records in 1967 and had their first big hit in early 1968 with the psychedelic single "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" (US No. 5). After other chart hits, "But You Know I Love You" (US No. 19) and "Tell It All Brother" (US No. 17), the group, newly billed as "Kenny Rogers and the First Edition", once again hit the top ten, this time in 1969 with the topical "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" (US No. 6, UK No.2).

For the next six years, the First Edition enjoyed worldwide success. By the mid-1970s, frontman Kenny Rogers had embarked on a solo music career, becoming one of the top-selling country artists of all time.

 

A1		Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
A2		Poem For My Little Lady
A3		For The Good Times
A4		Good Lady Of Toronto
A5		Where Does Rosie Go
B1		Me And Bobby McGee
B2		What Am I gonna Do
B3		All God's Lonely Children
B4		Lay It Down
B5		Tulsa Turnaround
C1		Tell It All Brother
C2		Love Woman
C3		I'm Gonna Sing A Sad Song Suzie
C4		The King Of Oak Street
C5		Shine On Ruby Mountain
D1		Heed The Call
D2		Molly
D3		Camptown Ladies
D4		We All Got To Help Eachother
D5		After All (I Live My Life)