![]() ![]() His journey through commercial jazz with the New Christy Minstrels and quasi-hippiedom with the folk/rock/pop of the First Edition is wild in the context of his later hits, until you think about how diverse those hits are. ![]() A half-century later, he was best known as either The Gambler, or a crowd-pleasing pop singer-turned-fried chicken magnate. He started his career playing bass in jazz and R&B bands in his native Houston his first single, 1958’s “That Crazy Feeling,” was a convincing enough doo-wop performance to earn young Kenneth an appearance on American Bandstand. Yes, he’s a Country Music Hall of Famer yes, one of his best-known and most enduring songs is a trippy ode to LSD. Over the more than 60 years that Kenny Rogers wrote songs, his trajectory defied any straightforward narrative.
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