Kenny Rogers & The First Edition

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	Backroads New - LP - JR 5001 Sealed, Rare 1972 Textured Cover Original. DJ Promo Sticker On Back Cover. more
	Ballad Of Calico Used - LP - 2XS 6476 Rare 1972 2LP Steamboat Label Textured Gatefold Original With 16 Page Booklet. Michael Murphey Wrote The Songs On This Album As A Tribute To A Ghost Town In The Mojave Known As New Vegas. Recommended. First Copy We Have Seen In Five Years. 1B/1A/1B/1A Stampers. Both LPs Appear Glossy, Unplayed. more
	First Edition's 2nd New - LP - RS 6302 Sealed 1969 US Two Color Steamboat Label Stereo Original. Exact Press Unknown. more
	Greatest Hits Used - LP - RS 6437 80's Reissue Housed In Plain Grey Cover Still In Shrink. Vinyl Is NM Cover Is VG+ more
	Greatest Hits New - LP - 6437 Sealed Embossed Silver Foil Cover Original With Flip-Back Envelope Style Jacket. First Copy We Have Ever Seen Of This Rarity Which Predates The Issue That Had The Title In Black Lettering. Pristine Copy. more
	Greatest Hits Used - LP - 6437 US Reissue Club Pressing, With Warner Logo in Rim Text, Still In Shrink. This Tough To Find Album. more
	Kenny Rogers And The First Edition New - LP - OP 2514 Sealed, Rare 1979 Warner Special Products 2LP Set. Tiny Cut Out Hole. more
	Monumental New - LP - JR 5004 Sealed, Rare 1973 Original. more
	Monumental New - LP - JR 5004 Sealed, Rare 1973 Original. Top Right Corner Crease & Tiny Corner Dings. Promotional DJ Sticker On Back Cover. Probably A White Label Promo. First Copy We Have Had In Stock In Ten Years. more
	Rollin' New - LP - JR 5003 Sealed, Rare 1973 Gatefold Original On The MGM Imprint. Tiny Corner Rubs. DJ Promo Sticker On Rear Cover. more
	Rollin' New - LP - JR 5003 Sealed 1973 Gatefold Original On The MGM Imprint. more
	Something's Burning New - LP - RS 6385 Sealed 1970 Two Color Steamboat Label Gatefold Original With Large Oval Hype Sticker On The Shrink Wrap. Tiny Cut Corner. Rare! more
	Something's Burning Used - LP - RS 6385 Rare White Label Promo Housed In A Gatefold Cover. Appears Unplayed. Includes The Hit "Something's Burning." One Of Those Under-The-Radar Audiophile Quality Recordings With Sweet String Tone, more
	The First Edition's 2nd New - LP - 6302 Sealed 1969 Two Color Steamboat Label Stereo Original. Tiny Factory Promotional Brass Stud In Jacket. "A more focused '60s album than 1967's First Edition, what is missing from this follow-up LP is a hit single like "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)," though the group more than makes up for that with solid performances. This was again produced by Mike Post, with arrangements by veteran Al Capps, who brought so much to Johnny Mathis, Cher, and many others. "Charlie the Fer de Lance" is indicative of this effort, with phasing fuzz guitar and Kenny Rogers as a hippie delivering odd lyrics on an interesting tune which isn't as direct as the group's first hit. Mike Settle's voice leads the pack on the second track, the Rogers/Williams co-write "If I Could Only Change Your Mind," another nice period piece that works well in this setting but wasn't going to burn up the charts. This is the First Edition as a real group, a full band before Kenny Rogers would start exerting more control on the third outing, First Edition '69. Mike Settle's "A Patch of Clear" is yet another vague essay from this era -- as odd as the opening track. Settle sounds great on Bob Stone's "A Good Kind of Hurt" and Thelma Camacho (who they have listed on the back cover as "Comancho") is just wonderful on her own composition "I Passed You By." The band works the Paul Williams/Roger Nichols little-known title "Only Me" to good effect to end side one. The song is chock-full of 1960s pop clichés and would have fit nicely on an album from the Monkees or maybe an airline commercial. Songwriter Mickey Newbury's "Are My Thoughts With You?" opens side two and features Kenny Rogers performing in the style which would bring him his eventual solo success, delivering the most commercial performance on this 11-song collection. Four members of the International Graphoanalysis Society give profiles of the four singers from the First Edition on the back cover, making for one of the more interesting sets of liner notes from any album released in 1968. It's not just the almost astrological look at the musician's personalities through their handwriting which makes this disc special, it -- like the Fifth Estate's Ding Dong the Witch Is Back -- is a very special album from a special time that '60s cultists have completely overlooked. The First Edition were an excellent psychedelic folk-pop group, and First Edition's Second should be a much-sought-after collectors' item. Like the aforementioned Fifth Estate, they were left off of Lenny Kaye's Nuggets collection, perhaps because they conquered the charts seven separate times. Kenny Rogers and Mike Settle are the songwriters on the final four tracks, and they are all extraordinary journeys into the psyche of the '60s. Rogers' "Things Can't Be So Bad," followed by Mike Settles' "Rainbows on a Cloudy Day" and "The Sun Keeps on Rising," two songs about the weather, has that mood that fans of the genre adore. Mike Post's production brings it all home. Thelma Camacho and Terry Williams' voices helped make this group an underground Mamas & the Papas, and their vocals closing the disc out by embracing Kenny Rogers' wonderful "Look Around, I'll Be There" very well could have made it a sleeper hit and changed the band's history. Rogers would take over right after this, and as valuable as his contributions to country/pop would eventually turn out to be, the First Edition were more than just one person; The First Edition's Second proves that. It's by no means the lost Sgt. Pepper's, but it does have lots to offer and should be dusted off and given new life." All Music Guide - Joe Viglione more
	Transition New - LP - MS 2039 Sealed 1971 Original, Cut Corner. “And A Big Transition It Is From The Psychedelic Near Hard Rock Of "Just Dropped In," Produced By Mike Post In 1968, To Mellow Tunes By Mac Davis, Kris Kristofferson, Carole King, And Alex Harvey, Among Others, Just Three Years Later. Ex-New Christy Minstrels Bandmate Kim Carnes Contributes "Where Does Rosie Go," And The Jimmy Bowen And Kenny Rogers Production Is Crystal Clear, Allowing The Singer To Develop The Sound That Would Hit Big Six Years After This Release. In Fact, It Was Six And A Half Years Between The Last Hit From The First Edition, 1970's "Heed The Call," And Rogers' Number One Country Smash, "Lucille," Which Opened The Floodgates To 19 Subsequent Chart Songs. What Is Amazing About Transition Is That It Is So Good, Yet Its Sound Took More Than Half A Decade To Get Established, More Than A Lifetime In The Record Industry….. Transition Is An Album Of Immense Depth, And Is The Bridge Between The First Edition And His Solo Career. It Is The Album That Displays Kenny Rogers As A Serious Artist, And Is Worthy Of A Special Place. If Rogers Were Lou Reed, This Would Be The Great Lost Album Fans Would Go Bonkers Over. The Country-Pop That Rogers Would Become So Famous For Is Totally Revealed On The Second Side, With Kristofferson's "For The Good Times" And Mac Davis' "Poem For My Little Lady." The Album Is Well Named, And The Singer Gives His Audience A Taste Of Things To Come. Classic Stuff.” All Music Guide - Joe Viglione more