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We've Got Tonight (1983)

Where the lyrics of We've Got Tonight take you, and where it was really made.

The title song was a No. 1 country hit as a duet with Sheena Easton, yet Bob Seger's original reached only No. 13 on the Hot 100.

Key places

Lion Share Studios (1983)

Recording site Lion Share — Listed in the source as a recording location for this album. The pin uses building coordinates, but the exact room or address is not given in the source. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Hitsville U.S.A. (1983)

Recording site Hitsville U.S.A. Studio A — Listed in the source as a recording location for this album. The source gives only the city name, so the exact building is not confirmed. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Ocean Way Recording (1983)

Recording site The Music Grinder (Hollywood) — Listed in the source as a recording location for this album. The pin marks the Hollywood city center, not the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Creative Workshop (1983)

Recording site Nashville — Listed in the source as a recording location for this album. The pin marks the Nashville city center, not the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• We've Got Tonight: fourteenth studio album by American singer Kenny Rogers
• Released in 1983
• Rogers's last album with Liberty Records before signing with RCA Records
• Title track: duet with Sheena Easton, the debut single
• Title track reached No. 1 on the Country chart and No. 2 at Adult Contemporary radio
• Title track also went Top Ten on the Billboard and Cash Box Pop charts

Background

• Title track written by Bob Seger, from his album Stranger in Town
• Rogers's version became a higher-seller at the time, five years after the song was written
• Seger's own version reached only No. 13 on the Hot 100
• Lionel Richie, who had been contributing songs to Rogers, submitted 'How Long' to this album
• 'You Are So Beautiful' was written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher and originally appears on Preston's 1974 album The Kids and Me

Recording

• Recording began on 1 May 1982 with 'Love Will Turn You Around'
• The remaining songs were finished by 30 December 1982
• Last song recorded was 'All My Life', also a duet with Sheena Easton
• Producers: Kenny Rogers, David Foster, Randy Goodrum, Brent Maher, Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael
• Engineers include Al Schmitt, Reginald Dozier and Humberto Gatica

Cover

• Photography by Matthew Rolston
• Art direction by Henry Marquez
• Wardrobe by Neiman Marcus

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · de.wikipedia.org

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

• Title track was the debut single, a duet with Sheena Easton
• Title track soared to No. 1 on the Country chart and No. 2 at Adult Contemporary radio
• 'All My Life' reached No. 2 Adult Contemporary and No. 13 Country
• 'All My Life' also reached third place in Canada
• 'Scarlet Fever', Rogers's final single for EMI, was a No. 5 Country hit
• 'Scarlet Fever' ran out of steam at No. 94 Pop

Records

• Country chart: No. 3
• Main Billboard album chart: No. 18
• Platinum status in the United States
• Platinum status in Canada

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · de.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title song was written by Bob Seger and comes from his album Stranger in Town
• Lionel Richie submitted 'How Long' to this album
• 'You Are So Beautiful' originally appears on Billy Preston's 1974 album The Kids and Me
• In 1983 Gianni Morandi recorded the song in Italy as 'Grazie perchè', a duet with Amii Stewart

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

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