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Love or Something Like It Studio album by Kenny Rogers Released July 1978 Recorded 33:46 Label United Artists Records Producer Larry Butler Kenny Rogers chronology Every Time Two Fools Collide (with Dottie West)
(1978)Love or Something Like It
(1978)The Gambler
(1978)Love or Something Like It is the fifth solo album by country music superstar Kenny Rogers, released in 1978. It was Rogers' fourth #1 hit album.
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Overview
The album's title cut ("Love or Something Like It") also topped the charts. Though this was the only single to be issued from the album, another cut, "Momma's Waiting" (written by Rogers), was issued on the B-side of a 1978 major hit single, "The Gambler".[1] "Momma's Waiting" was originally recorded by Rogers and The First Edition in 1970.
Biographer Chris Bolton notes in the sleevnotes of the 2009 reissue on the Edsel record label that "I Could Be So Good For You", was Kenny's attempt to "go Disco" and suggests the Disco influence may be the reason only one single was pulled from this album. Bolton goes on to call "Momma's Waiting" a close cousin of Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried" and states the album features songs that are a lot more pop slanted -on the whole- than any of Rogers' previous albums, but the albums best tracks still have an over-riding country sound.
Track listing
- "Love or Something Like It" (Kenny Rogers, Steve Glassmeyer) [2:51]
- "There's a Lot of That Going Around" (Jim Hurt, Steve Pippin) [2:41]
- "Buried Treasures" (Charlie Phillips, Ernie Rowell) [3:17]
- "Something About You Song" (Jon Hassell) [2:38]
- "Momma's Waiting" (Kenny Rogers, Terry Williams) [4:07]
- "We Could Have Been the Closest of Friends" (John Thomas Slate, Steve Pippin) [3:11]
- "I Could Be So Good for You" (Alan Rush, Dennis Linde, Randy Cullers, Thomas Cain) [2:58]
- "Sail Away" (Rafe Van Hoy) [3:31]
- "Even a Fool Would Let Go" (Kerry Chater, Tom Snow) [3:07]
- "Highway Flyer" (Doug Owen, Stephen Allen Davis) [2:16]
- "Starting Again" (Kenny Rogers, Steve Glassmeyer) [3:09]
Personnel
- Kenny Rogers - guitar, vocals
- Billy Sanford, Fred Carter, Jerry Shook, Jimmy Capps, Randy Dorman, Rick Harper - guitar
- Pete Drake - steel guitar
- Bob Moore, Joe Osborn, Tommy Allsup - bass
- Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Gene Golden, Steve Glassmeyer, Edgar Struble - keyboards
- Jerry Carrigan, Bobby Daniels - drums
- Bill Joor, Dennis Good, Phil Forrest, Roger Bissell - horns
- Janie Fricke, The Jordanaires, Wendellyn Suits - background vocals
- Byron Bach, Carl Gorodetzky, Gary Vanosdale, George Binkley, Lennie Haight, Marvin Chantry, Roy Christensen, Samuel Terranova, Sheldon Kurland, Wilfred Lehmann - strings
- Bill Justis - string arrangement
- Billy Sherrill -engineer
Chart performance
Chart (1978) Peak
positionU.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1 U.S. Billboard 200 53 Canadian RPM Country Albums 2 Canadian RPM Top Albums 47 References
Preceded by
Stardust by Willie NelsonTop Country Albums number-one album
August 26-September 2, 1978Succeeded by
Heartbreaker by Dolly PartonStudio albums Love Lifted Me · Kenny Rogers · Daytime Friends · Love or Something Like It · The Gambler · Kenny · Gideon · Share Your Love · Love Will Turn You Around · We've Got Tonight · Eyes That See in the Dark · The Heart of the Matter · Love Is What We Make It · They Don't Make Them Like They Used To · I Prefer the Moonlight · Something Inside So Strong · Love Is Strange · Back Home Again · If Only My Heart Had a Voice · Vote for Love · Across My Heart · She Rides Wild Horses · There You Go Again · Back to the Well · Water & Bridges · The Love of GodCollaboration albums Every Time Two Fools Collide (with Dottie West) · Classics (with Dottie West) · What About Me? (with Kim Carnes and James Ingram) · Timepiece (with David Foster)Christmas albums Christmas · Once Upon a Christmas · Christmas in America · The Gift · Christmas from the Heart · Christmas with Kenny · Christmas CollectionNotable singles "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" · "But You Know I Love You" · "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" · "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)" · "Lucille" · "Daytime Friends" · "Sweet Music Man" · "Every Time Two Fools Collide" (with Dottie West) · "Love or Something Like It" · "The Gambler" · "All I Ever Need Is You" (with Dottie West) · "She Believes in Me" · "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" (with Dottie West) · "You Decorated My Life" · "Coward of the County" · "Lady" · "I Don't Need You" · "Share Your Love with Me" · "Through the Years" · "Love Will Turn You Around" · "We've Got Tonight" (with Sheena Easton) · "Islands in the Stream" (with Dolly Parton) · "Together Again" (with Dottie West) · "What About Me?" (with Kim Carnes and James Ingram) · "Crazy" · "Morning Desire" · "Goodbye Marie" · "Tomb of the Unknown Love" · "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" · "I Don't Call Him Daddy" · "Love Is Strange" · "Buy Me a Rose" (with Alison Krauss and Billy Dean)Related articles Categories:- 1978 albums
- Kenny Rogers albums
- United Artists Records albums
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