Track Listing

1. Lucille
2. Lady
3. Love Lifted Me
4. We've Got Tonight
5. Scarlet Fever
6. Love Or Something Like It
7. She Believes In Me
8. Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town
9. Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer
10. You Were A Good Friend
11. The Gambler
12. Through The Years
13. Daytime Friends
14. You Decorated My Life
15. Till I Can Make It On My Own
16. Reuben James
17. Coward Of The County
18. I Don't Need You
19. Something's Burning
20. Love Will Turn You Around

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33956 in Music
• Released on: 1991-07-01
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com essential recording
This robust collection is as good a place as any to start for those interested in revisiting Kenny Rogers's long, glorious run on the country and pop charts through the 1970s and early 1980s. It includes early countrified milestone hits like "Lucille" and "The Gambler," as well as later pop-flavored outings like "Lady" and "You Decorated My Life." It's rounded out with a sampling of the smooth pop duets he recorded with leading ladies like Sheena Easton ("We've Got Tonight"), Kim Carnes ("Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer"), and the late Dottie West ("'Till I Can Make It on My Own"). All told, this is among the strongest of the many single-CD compilations that have been culled from Rogers's long, prolific, and varied career. --Bob Allen

Customer Reviews

Check your CD's & downloads before you buy
I love Kenny Rogers music and almost made the mistake of purchasing this one. Fortunately I double checked my CD list and found that I already had the "25 Greatest Hits" CD. the "20 Greatest Hits" CD is exactly the same except the last 5 songs have been cut out. The CD covers are even the same. The missing songs are:

Abraham, Martin & John/Precious Memories
Love Is What We Make It
Green Green Grass of Home
Desperado
Sweet Music Man

If you can't find the "25 Greatest Hits" then definetly go with with the "20"... it's great music. However - check your CD's first & make sure that you don't already have the "25". Either way, it's Kenny Rogers music and these were all from his best period. Also, if you don't already have it, the "Water & Bridges" CD (his newest) is very good.

One of the better Kenny Rogers CD. you can't go wrong with Kenny Rogers greatest hits CDs.
First I just want to say that I'm a big fan of Kenny Rogers so I might be biased but I'll try to be objective.

You pretty much get most of Kenny Rogers greatest songs. but if you are a Kenny Rogers fan, you might want to also check the "42 Ultimate hits" album and the "21 Number ones". There are a lot of overlap though some with different version of the songs. I like this CD a lot too and I don't think you can go wrong by buying any Kenny Rogers Greatest hits CDs..

I like about 80% of the songs in this CD..

Lots of beautiful love songs in this CD: Through the years, Island in the stream, You decorated my life, She believes in me, Love will turn you around, We'ge got tonight etc..

For Kenny Roger's new fan, check out "21 Number Ones" album (this CD), "the greatest hit" album and the "Kenny Rogers live by request". Also check the new CD Water and Bridges. The song "I can't unlove you" is a hit.

Here are some of my all time Kenny Rogers favorite songs (almost all of them available in the "21 Number Ones" album. I call this list, Kenny Rogers essential:

The Gambler
Through The Years
Lady
Lucille
Coward of The County
We've Got Tonight (with Sheena Easton)
Crazy
Islands In The Stream (with Dolly Parton)
She Believes In Me
You Decorated My Life
Make No Mistake, She's Mine (with Ronnie Milsap)
Daytime Friends
Love Or Something Like It
Love Will Turn You Around
Morning Desire
The Factory
Twenty years ago
Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer (with Kim Carnes)
Ruby, Don't take your love to town
Buried treasure
I don't call him daddy
She's ready for someone to love her

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Updated Dec 15th:
I went to see Kenny Rogers live recently (his greatest hits and chrismas song concert.) I had a blast, simply amazing. I recommend all Kenny Rogers fans to visit his concert Live at least once. (We never know how many more years he will do his tour but I do hope for many more years to come)

great greatest hits
Many greatest hits albums make you wonder who was picking the songs, but not this one. All of the tunes are great if you like Kenny Rogers at all.