
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Collection (1967-1972) Hi-Res
BAND/ARTIST: Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, Kenny Rogers, The First Edition
- Title: Collection
- Year Of Release: 1967-1972
- Label: MCA Nashville / UMG Recordings
- Genre: Country, Soft Rock, Psychedelic Rock
- Quality: FLAC (tracks) / FLAC (tracks) 24bit-96kHz
- Total Time: 4:31:36
- Total Size: 1.60 Gb / 5.60 Cb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
1967 - Self-Titled
1. Intro (0:51)
2. I Found A Reason (Album Version) (2:46)
3. Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (3:19)
4. Shadow In The Corner Of Your Mind (2:50)
5. If Wishes Were Horses (2:33)
6. Ticket To Nowhere (2:24)
7. I Get A Funny Feeling (3:48)
8. I Was The Loser (3:05)
9. Dream On (2:45)
10. Home Made Lies (2:22)
11. Marcia 2 A.M. (2:21)
12. Hurry Up Love (2:35)
13. Church Without A Name (3:22)
1968 - The First Edition's 2nd
1. Charlie The Fer De Lance (2:48)
2. If I Could Only Change Your Mind (2:31)
3. A Patch Of Clear (2:26)
4. I Passed You By (2:30)
5. A Good Kind Of Hurt (2:22)
6. Only Me (2:32)
7. Are My Thoughts With You? (3:09)
8. Things Can't Be So Sad (2:34)
9. Rainbows On A Cloudy Day (3:18)
10. The Sun Keeps On Rising (2:33)
11. Look Around, I'll Be There (2:28)
1969 - 69
1. But You Know I Love You (Album Version) (3:04)
2. I Just Wanna Give My Love To You (Album Version) (2:49)
3. It's Gonna Be Better (3:04)
4. Last Few Threads Of Love (Album Version) (2:26)
5. All That I Am (3:31)
6. Trying Just As Hard As I Can (Album Version) (2:24)
7. Run Through Your Mind (2:53)
8. It's Raining In My Mind (3:15)
9. Sleep Comes Easy (Album Version) (2:56)
10. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (2:59)
1969 - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
1. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (3:00)
2. Me And Bobby McGee (Album Version) (2:39)
3. New Design (Album Version) (2:19)
4. Always Leaving Always Gone (Album Version) (2:30)
5. Listen To The Music (2:37)
6. Sunshine (Album Version) (3:12)
7. Once Again She's All Alone (2:19)
8. Girl, Get A Hold Of Yourself (Album Version) (2:35)
9. Good Time Liberator (Album Version) (2:22)
10. Reuben James (2:46)
1970 - Something's Burning
1. Something's Burning (3:57)
2. She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye (Album Version) (2:22)
3. Then I Miss You (2:56)
4. My Washington Woman (Album Version) (3:28)
5. Just Remember You're My Sunshine (Album Version) (2:34)
6. Sunshine Joe (2:26)
7. A Stranger In My Place (2:57)
8. It's A Crazy Afternoon (1:58)
9. Momma's Waiting (Album Version) (3:35)
10. Elvira (Album Version) (2:42)
1970 - Tell It All, Brother
1. Tell It All Brother (3:20)
2. Shine On Ruby Mountain (Album Version) (3:01)
3. The King Of Oak Street (Album Version) (4:09)
4. I'm Gonna Sing You A Sad Song Susie (3:05)
5. Love Woman (Album Version) (2:45)
6. Heed The Call (Album Version) (3:18)
7. Camptown Ladies (2:04)
8. Molly (Album Version) (3:06)
9. After All (I Live My Life) (3:18)
10. We All Got To Help Each Other (2:26)
1971 - Transition
1. Take My Hand (2:54)
2. What Am I Gonna Do (2:45)
3. All God's Lonely Children (3:21)
4. Lay It Down (4:21)
5. Tulsa Turnaround (3:39)
6. A Poem For My Little Lady (2:36)
7. For The Good Times (3:23)
8. Good Lady Of Toronto (3:27)
9. Two Little Boys (3:42)
10. Where Does Rosie Go? (2:16)
1972 - The Ballad Of Calico
1. Sunrise Overture (Album Version) (2:48)
2. Calico Silver (Album Version) (2:34)
3. Write Me Down (Don't Forget My Name) (2:40)
4. The Way It Used To Be (3:34)
5. Madame De Lil And Diabolical Bill (3:26)
6. School Teacher (3:54)
7. Road Agent (3:19)
8. Sally Grey's Epitaph (3:24)
9. Dorsey, The Mail-Carrying Dog (3:15)
10. Harbor For My Soul (2:47)
11. Calico Saturday Night (5:24)
12. Trigger Happy Kid (3:48)
13. Vachel Carling's Rubilator (4:35)
14. Empty Handed Compadres (2:15)
15. One Lonely Room (2:51)
16. Rockin' Chair Theme (0:50)
17. Old Mojave Highway (3:56)
18. Man Came Up From Town (3:52)
19. Calico Silver (Reprise) (1:23)
1967 - Self-Titled
1. Intro (0:51)
2. I Found A Reason (Album Version) (2:46)
3. Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (3:19)
4. Shadow In The Corner Of Your Mind (2:50)
5. If Wishes Were Horses (2:33)
6. Ticket To Nowhere (2:24)
7. I Get A Funny Feeling (3:48)
8. I Was The Loser (3:05)
9. Dream On (2:45)
10. Home Made Lies (2:22)
11. Marcia 2 A.M. (2:21)
12. Hurry Up Love (2:35)
13. Church Without A Name (3:22)
1968 - The First Edition's 2nd
1. Charlie The Fer De Lance (2:48)
2. If I Could Only Change Your Mind (2:31)
3. A Patch Of Clear (2:26)
4. I Passed You By (2:30)
5. A Good Kind Of Hurt (2:22)
6. Only Me (2:32)
7. Are My Thoughts With You? (3:09)
8. Things Can't Be So Sad (2:34)
9. Rainbows On A Cloudy Day (3:18)
10. The Sun Keeps On Rising (2:33)
11. Look Around, I'll Be There (2:28)
1969 - 69
1. But You Know I Love You (Album Version) (3:04)
2. I Just Wanna Give My Love To You (Album Version) (2:49)
3. It's Gonna Be Better (3:04)
4. Last Few Threads Of Love (Album Version) (2:26)
5. All That I Am (3:31)
6. Trying Just As Hard As I Can (Album Version) (2:24)
7. Run Through Your Mind (2:53)
8. It's Raining In My Mind (3:15)
9. Sleep Comes Easy (Album Version) (2:56)
10. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (2:59)
1969 - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
1. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (3:00)
2. Me And Bobby McGee (Album Version) (2:39)
3. New Design (Album Version) (2:19)
4. Always Leaving Always Gone (Album Version) (2:30)
5. Listen To The Music (2:37)
6. Sunshine (Album Version) (3:12)
7. Once Again She's All Alone (2:19)
8. Girl, Get A Hold Of Yourself (Album Version) (2:35)
9. Good Time Liberator (Album Version) (2:22)
10. Reuben James (2:46)
1970 - Something's Burning
1. Something's Burning (3:57)
2. She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye (Album Version) (2:22)
3. Then I Miss You (2:56)
4. My Washington Woman (Album Version) (3:28)
5. Just Remember You're My Sunshine (Album Version) (2:34)
6. Sunshine Joe (2:26)
7. A Stranger In My Place (2:57)
8. It's A Crazy Afternoon (1:58)
9. Momma's Waiting (Album Version) (3:35)
10. Elvira (Album Version) (2:42)
1970 - Tell It All, Brother
1. Tell It All Brother (3:20)
2. Shine On Ruby Mountain (Album Version) (3:01)
3. The King Of Oak Street (Album Version) (4:09)
4. I'm Gonna Sing You A Sad Song Susie (3:05)
5. Love Woman (Album Version) (2:45)
6. Heed The Call (Album Version) (3:18)
7. Camptown Ladies (2:04)
8. Molly (Album Version) (3:06)
9. After All (I Live My Life) (3:18)
10. We All Got To Help Each Other (2:26)
1971 - Transition
1. Take My Hand (2:54)
2. What Am I Gonna Do (2:45)
3. All God's Lonely Children (3:21)
4. Lay It Down (4:21)
5. Tulsa Turnaround (3:39)
6. A Poem For My Little Lady (2:36)
7. For The Good Times (3:23)
8. Good Lady Of Toronto (3:27)
9. Two Little Boys (3:42)
10. Where Does Rosie Go? (2:16)
1972 - The Ballad Of Calico
1. Sunrise Overture (Album Version) (2:48)
2. Calico Silver (Album Version) (2:34)
3. Write Me Down (Don't Forget My Name) (2:40)
4. The Way It Used To Be (3:34)
5. Madame De Lil And Diabolical Bill (3:26)
6. School Teacher (3:54)
7. Road Agent (3:19)
8. Sally Grey's Epitaph (3:24)
9. Dorsey, The Mail-Carrying Dog (3:15)
10. Harbor For My Soul (2:47)
11. Calico Saturday Night (5:24)
12. Trigger Happy Kid (3:48)
13. Vachel Carling's Rubilator (4:35)
14. Empty Handed Compadres (2:15)
15. One Lonely Room (2:51)
16. Rockin' Chair Theme (0:50)
17. Old Mojave Highway (3:56)
18. Man Came Up From Town (3:52)
19. Calico Silver (Reprise) (1:23)
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. 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.
A more focused '60s album than 1967's First Edition, what is missing from this follow-up LP is a hit single like "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)," though the group more than makes up for that with solid performances. This was again produced by Mike Post, with arrangements by veteran Al Capps, who brought so much to Johnny Mathis, Cher, and many others. "Charlie the Fer de Lance" is indicative of this effort, with phasing fuzz guitar and Kenny Rogers as a hippie delivering odd lyrics on an interesting tune which isn't as direct as the group's first hit. Mike Settle's voice leads the pack on the second track, the Rogers/Williams co-write "If I Could Only Change Your Mind," another nice period piece that works well in this setting but wasn't going to burn up the charts. This is the First Edition as a real group, a full band before Kenny Rogers would start exerting more control on the third outing, First Edition '69. Mike Settle's "A Patch of Clear" is yet another vague essay from this era -- as odd as the opening track. Settle sounds great on Bob Stone's "A Good Kind of Hurt" and Thelma Camacho (who they have listed on the back cover as "Comancho") is just wonderful on her own composition "I Passed You By." The band works the Paul Williams/Roger Nichols little-known title "Only Me" to good effect to end side one. The song is chock-full of 1960s pop clichés and would have fit nicely on an album from the Monkees or maybe an airline commercial. Songwriter Mickey Newbury's "Are My Thoughts With You?" opens side two and features Kenny Rogers performing in the style which would bring him his eventual solo success, delivering the most commercial performance on this 11-song collection. Four members of the International Graphoanalysis Society give profiles of the four singers from the First Edition on the back cover, making for one of the more interesting sets of liner notes from any album released in 1968. It's not just the almost astrological look at the musician's personalities through their handwriting which makes this disc special, it -- like the Fifth Estate's Ding Dong the Witch Is Back -- is a very special album from a special time that '60s cultists have completely overlooked. The First Edition were an excellent psychedelic folk-pop group, and First Edition's Second should be a much-sought-after collectors' item. Like the aforementioned Fifth Estate, they were left off of Lenny Kaye's Nuggets collection, perhaps because they conquered the charts seven separate times. Kenny Rogers and Mike Settle are the songwriters on the final four tracks, and they are all extraordinary journeys into the psyche of the '60s. Rogers' "Things Can't Be So Bad," followed by Mike Settles' "Rainbows on a Cloudy Day" and "The Sun Keeps on Rising," two songs about the weather, has that mood that fans of the genre adore. Mike Post's production brings it all home. Thelma Camacho and Terry Williams' voices helped make this group an underground Mamas & the Papas, and their vocals closing the disc out by embracing Kenny Rogers' wonderful "Look Around, I'll Be There" very well could have made it a sleeper hit and changed the band's history. Rogers would take over right after this, and as valuable as his contributions to country/pop would eventually turn out to be, the First Edition were more than just one person; The First Edition's Second proves that. It's by no means the lost Sgt. Pepper's, but it does have lots to offer and should be dusted off and given new life.
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.
A more focused '60s album than 1967's First Edition, what is missing from this follow-up LP is a hit single like "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)," though the group more than makes up for that with solid performances. This was again produced by Mike Post, with arrangements by veteran Al Capps, who brought so much to Johnny Mathis, Cher, and many others. "Charlie the Fer de Lance" is indicative of this effort, with phasing fuzz guitar and Kenny Rogers as a hippie delivering odd lyrics on an interesting tune which isn't as direct as the group's first hit. Mike Settle's voice leads the pack on the second track, the Rogers/Williams co-write "If I Could Only Change Your Mind," another nice period piece that works well in this setting but wasn't going to burn up the charts. This is the First Edition as a real group, a full band before Kenny Rogers would start exerting more control on the third outing, First Edition '69. Mike Settle's "A Patch of Clear" is yet another vague essay from this era -- as odd as the opening track. Settle sounds great on Bob Stone's "A Good Kind of Hurt" and Thelma Camacho (who they have listed on the back cover as "Comancho") is just wonderful on her own composition "I Passed You By." The band works the Paul Williams/Roger Nichols little-known title "Only Me" to good effect to end side one. The song is chock-full of 1960s pop clichés and would have fit nicely on an album from the Monkees or maybe an airline commercial. Songwriter Mickey Newbury's "Are My Thoughts With You?" opens side two and features Kenny Rogers performing in the style which would bring him his eventual solo success, delivering the most commercial performance on this 11-song collection. Four members of the International Graphoanalysis Society give profiles of the four singers from the First Edition on the back cover, making for one of the more interesting sets of liner notes from any album released in 1968. It's not just the almost astrological look at the musician's personalities through their handwriting which makes this disc special, it -- like the Fifth Estate's Ding Dong the Witch Is Back -- is a very special album from a special time that '60s cultists have completely overlooked. The First Edition were an excellent psychedelic folk-pop group, and First Edition's Second should be a much-sought-after collectors' item. Like the aforementioned Fifth Estate, they were left off of Lenny Kaye's Nuggets collection, perhaps because they conquered the charts seven separate times. Kenny Rogers and Mike Settle are the songwriters on the final four tracks, and they are all extraordinary journeys into the psyche of the '60s. Rogers' "Things Can't Be So Bad," followed by Mike Settles' "Rainbows on a Cloudy Day" and "The Sun Keeps on Rising," two songs about the weather, has that mood that fans of the genre adore. Mike Post's production brings it all home. Thelma Camacho and Terry Williams' voices helped make this group an underground Mamas & the Papas, and their vocals closing the disc out by embracing Kenny Rogers' wonderful "Look Around, I'll Be There" very well could have made it a sleeper hit and changed the band's history. Rogers would take over right after this, and as valuable as his contributions to country/pop would eventually turn out to be, the First Edition were more than just one person; The First Edition's Second proves that. It's by no means the lost Sgt. Pepper's, but it does have lots to offer and should be dusted off and given new life.
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