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Every Time Two Fools Collide (1978)

Where the lyrics of Every Time Two Fools Collide take you, and where it was really made.

Dottie West was struggling to keep her country career afloat when this duet with Kenny Rogers came out, yet the album went to number one on the Top Country albums chart.

Key places

Recorded at Jack Clement Recording Studios (1978)

Recording site Nashville — The album was recorded at Jack Clement Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. The map point is set at city-center level, so the exact building is not pinned. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Every Time Two Fools Collide: 1978 duet album by American country music singers Kenny Rogers and Dottie West
• The first album the two recorded together
• Released 20 March 1978
• Ten tracks in the track listing
• Certified gold by the RIAA
• Sold over one million copies worldwide

Background

• Rogers had entered the country market earlier with the crossover hit 'Lucille' in spring 1977
• More big crossover hits followed for Rogers
• West was struggling to keep afloat as a country singer
• She needed help to bring her career back to where it was in the early part of the decade

Recording

• Recorded at Jack Clement Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee
• Larry Butler produced the album
• Billy Sherrill was the engineer
• Bob Sowell mastered it at Master Control in Nashville
• Bill Justis arranged the strings
• Pete Drake played steel guitar
• The Jordanaires sang backing vocals

Cover

• Gary Regester took the photography
• Bill Burks was art director and Jeff Lancaster was the designer

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Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Kenneth Donald Ray Rogers was born on August 21, 1938, in Houston, Texas, and began his recording career in the late 1950s with the Houston group the Scholars.
• He was an American country singer-songwriter who moved from teenage rock and roll through psychedelic rock to become a country-pop crossover artist of the 1970s and 1980s.
• In 1967 he co-founded the First Edition with former New Christy Minstrels members, later renamed Kenny Rogers and the First Edition.

Members

• The First Edition's members included Mike Settle, Terry Williams, Thelma Camacho, and Kin Vassy.
• Rogers's backing band Bloodline has toured with him since 1976.

Career

• The First Edition scored hits including "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" and "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" before the group disbanded in 1976.
• As a solo artist he charted more than 60 top-40 singles, including the number-one hits "Lady" and "Islands in the Stream".
• He recorded duets with Dottie West, Dolly Parton, and Sheena Easton, and partnered with Lionel Richie as songwriter.
• His signature song "The Gambler" won a Grammy in 1980 and was selected for the National Recording Registry in 2018.
• He sold more than 100 million records worldwide and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013.
• He retired from touring in 2017 and died on March 20, 2020, at age 81.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

Records

• Top Country albums chart: number one for two weeks
• Billboard 200: peaked at number 186
• The title track 'Every Time Two Fools Collide' went to number one on the country chart as a single
• 'Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight' reached number two as a country hit
• The album spawned two big country hits, which made it a strong commercial showing for the duo's first joint release
• RIAA certification: gold
• Worldwide sales topped one million copies
• The album's country chart run came while West was working to revive her career, and the duo's partnership on record produced its biggest sales in the country market

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Billy Sherrill engineered the album, and Bob Sowell handled the mastering at Master Control in Nashville.
• The Jordanaires provided backing vocals on the record.
• Pete Drake played steel guitar, and Bill Justis arranged the strings.
• The track listing includes 'That's the Way It Could've Been', written by Tammy Wynette, and 'The Loving Gift', written by Kris Kristofferson.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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