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Share Your Love (1981)

Where the lyrics of Share Your Love take you, and where it was really made.

Rogers bought the studio where he had recorded his single "Lady" in May 1981, before this album was finished, and later renamed it Lion Share Studios.

Key places

Recording at Devonshire Sound Studios (1981)

Recording site Devonshire Sound Studios — The album's recording information names Devonshire Sound Studios in Los Angeles as a recording location. The point uses the studio's city-level position. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Share Your Love is a studio album by country singer Kenny Rogers, released in 1981
• Produced by Lionel Richie
• The album is Rogers' first with Liberty Records apart from his Greatest Hits album
• Four singles were released from the album
• The album has sold nine million copies worldwide

Background

• Rogers' single "Lady" had been recorded at Concorde Recording Center
• Rogers bought that studio in May 1981, before the album was completed
• He later renamed the studio Lion Share Studios

Recording

• Rogers recorded portions of the album at Concorde Recording Center
• Backing vocals on the tracks came from Kin Vassy, Terry Williams, Cindy Fee and others
• Track 6 has Gladys Knight & the Pips and Lionel Richie as backing vocalists
• Track 8 credits Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson as backing vocalists

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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

At release

• Share Your Love is a studio album by Kenny Rogers, released in 1981
• Produced by Lionel Richie, and Rogers' first album with Liberty Records apart from his Greatest Hits album
• The album reached number one on the country charts and number six on the pop charts
• Four singles were released from the album, all of which kept Rogers in the chart spotlight

Records

• The album has sold nine million copies worldwide
• "I Don't Need You" charted at number one on the US and Canadian country charts and reached the top of the US Adult Contemporary charts
• "I Don't Need You" also reached number three on the US Hot 100
• The title track "Share Your Love With Me" reached number 14 on the Hot 100 and number five on the US Country charts
• "Share Your Love With Me" reached number two in Canada and led the US Adult Contemporary charts
• "Blaze of Glory" was a lesser hit than the first two singles but still made the top ten
• "Through The Years" returned Rogers to number one on the Adult Contemporary charts once again

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• "Goin' Back to Alabama" features backing vocals by Michael Jackson
• Rogers renamed the studio he bought Lion Share Studios
• "Goin' Back to Alabama" was recorded at Concorde Recording Center in Los Angeles

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

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