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1978 single by Kenny Rogers

1978 single by Kenny Rogers

"The Gambler"
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers.jpg
Single past Kenny Rogers
from the anthology The Gambler
B-side "Momma's Waiting"
Released November 15, 1978
Genre Country
Length 3:34
Label United Artists
Songwriter(s) Don Schlitz
Producer(s) Larry Butler
Kenny Rogers singles chronology
"Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight"
(1978) 		"The Gambler"
(1978) 		"All I Ever Need Is You"
(1979)
Music video
"The Gambler" on YouTube

"The Gambler" is a song written by Don Schlitz and recorded past several artists, most famously by American country music singer Kenny Rogers.

Don Schlitz wrote this song in August 1976 when he was 23 years old. It took two years of shopping the song effectually Nashville earlier Bobby Bare recorded it on his anthology Bare at the urging of Shel Silverstein. Bare'southward version did not grab on and was never released equally a unmarried, and then Schlitz recorded it himself, just that version failed to chart college than No. 65. Other musicians took notice and recorded the song in 1978, including Johnny Cash, who put it on his album Gone Girl.

Information technology was Kenny Rogers, nonetheless, who fabricated the song a mainstream success. His version was a No. 1 country hit and made its fashion to the pop charts at a time when country songs rarely crossed over. It was released in November 1978 as the title track from his album The Gambler which won him the Grammy honour for best male country vocal performance in 1980.[1] In 2006, Don Schlitz appeared in the Kenny Rogers career retrospective documentary "The Journey", in which he praised both Rogers' and producer Larry Butler's contributions to the song, stating "they added several ideas that were not mine, including the new guitar intro".

Content [edit]

The song itself tells the story of a late-night coming together on a train "jump for nowhere" between the narrator and a man known just every bit "the gambler". The gambler tells the narrator that he can tell he is downwardly on his luck ("out of aces") by the wait in his eyes, and offers him communication in substitution for his terminal swallow of whisky. After the gambler takes the potable (and smokes a cigarette), he gives the following advice:

Y'all've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,

Know when to walk away, know when to run.
Yous never count your money when y'all're sittin' at the tabular array,

There'll be fourth dimension enough for countin' when the dealin's done.

The gambler so mentions that the "clandestine to survivin' is knowing what to throw away, and knowing what to proceed" and that "the best you can hope for is to dice in your slumber". At this bespeak, the gambler puts out the cigarette and goes to slumber. Shortly thereafter, he indeed dies in his sleep as he had hoped; "somewhere in the darkness, the gambler, he broke even", and the narrator finds "an ace that I could go on", "in his last words."[2]

Inspiration [edit]

On the American Top forty radio program of Feb 3, 1979, Casey Kasem reported that Schlitz said of "The Gambler": "Something more me wrote that song. I'k convinced of that. I really had no idea where the song was coming from. There was something going through my caput, which was my father. Information technology was simply a song, and it somehow filtered through me. Vi weeks later I received the final verse. Months later it came to me that information technology was inspired by, and possibly a gift from, my father." Schlitz's father had passed away in 1976.

Chart operation [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Legacy [edit]

The song became Rogers's signature song and most indelible hit. It was 1 of five sequent songs by Rogers to hit No. i on the Billboard land music charts.[nineteen] On the pop chart, the song fabricated it to No. sixteen, and No. 3 on the Easy Listening chart.[20] It inspired a series of Television movies loosely inspired by the song and gear up in the Sometime Westward, starting with Kenny Rogers as The Gambler (1980) and followed past Kenny Rogers every bit The Gambler: The Adventure Continues (1983), Kenny Rogers every bit The Gambler, Part Iii: The Legend Continues (1987), The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Depict (1991), and Gambler V: Playing for Keeps (1994).

As of November 13, 2013, the digital sales of the unmarried stood at 798,000 copies and after all these years the unmarried has yet to be certified gilded by RIAA certifications.[21] In 2018, it was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress equally being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant."[22] The song was ranked number 18 out of the top 76 songs of the 1970s by Internet radio station WDDF Radio in their 2016 countdown.[23] Following Rogers' death on March 20, 2020, "The Gambler" soared to No. 1 on Billboard'due south Digital Song Sales chart, followed by "Islands in the Stream", with Dolly Parton, which debuted at No. 2.[24]

In pop civilisation [edit]

Sports [edit]

  • The Houston Gamblers of the U.s.a. Football League, who played in Rogers' hometown, were named after the song.
  • Former Major League Baseball game pitcher Kenny Rogers was nicknamed "The Gambler" after the song, due to sharing a name with the song's artist.
  • The vocal is the unofficial 'canticle' for Edinburgh University Men's Hockey Gild, where the order are colloquially called "The Gamblers".

Television [edit]

  • In 1979, when Rogers guest-starred in a flavour 4 episode of The Muppet Show, he performed this song with a Muppet grapheme.[25] Rogers is shown seated on a train with iii muppets, one of them The Gambler (portrayed by Jerry Nelson). Rogers sings the opening verse, while Nelson sings well-nigh of "The Gambler'south" dialog, then falls asleep but every bit Rogers concludes the song's story. Afterward he dies, The Gambler's spirit rises from his Muppet trunk, singing backup and dances to the song's last two choruses, and lets a deck of cards fly from his paw before fading away.[26]
  • A extravaganza parody of Kenny Rogers singing the song appeared in the 1993 Pinky and the Brain brusque "Bubba Bo Bob Encephalon" (season 1, episode 34). The lyrics to this version were inverse to refer to Go Fish: "Y'all gotta know how to cut 'em, know how to shuffle, know how to deal the cards earlier you play fish with me."
  • In the 2007 episode of The Office "Embankment Games," Kevin Malone sings the verses of the song in the jitney while the rest of the staff joins him for the chorus. This was a nod to Kevin's having a gambling trouble.

Other [edit]

  • Land Yossi parodied the song in the 1980s on his Wanted album as "The Rabbi".[27]
  • On July 21, 2009, the song was released for the music game Rock Band equally a playable track as part of the "Rock Band Country Runway Pack" compilation disc. Information technology was fabricated available via digital download on at the end of 2009.
  • A 2014 Geico idiot box commercial features Rogers singing part of the song a cappella during a card game, to the displeasure of the other players.
  • In the 2016 video game Phoenix Wright: Ace Chaser – Spirit of Justice, this happens on i occasion in the game'southward fifth instance: If Apollo Justice presents the wrong evidence, Phoenix recounts something about a gambler singing the beginning part of the chorus, after which the estimate chimes in that he likes the song before singing the rest of the chorus. Apollo, embarrassed, thinks, "I don't know what's worse: the penalty, or their singing."
  • The vocal was featured in the trailer for the 2021 film Army of the Dead.

References [edit]

  1. ^ Reader's digest almanac and yearbook, 1981, p. 274
  2. ^ "The Gambler lyrics". Lyrics.com . Retrieved June 1, 2021.
  3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Nautical chart Volume 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.Due south.Due west.: Australian Nautical chart Book. p. 256. ISBN0-646-11917-vi.
  4. ^ "Kenny Rogers – The Gambler". Top xl Singles.
  5. ^ Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Espana: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN84-8048-639-2.
  6. ^ "KENNY ROGERS | total Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Theofficialcharts.com. Archived from the original on December 24, 2011. Retrieved Oct 13, 2016.
  7. ^ "Kenny Rogers Nautical chart History (Hot Land Songs)". Billboard.
  8. ^ "Kenny Rogers Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  9. ^ "Kenny Rogers Nautical chart History (Adult Gimmicky)". Billboard.
  10. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 3/10/79". Tropicalglen.com. March 10, 1979. Archived from the original on March eighteen, 2016. Retrieved Oct 13, 2016.
  11. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. July 17, 2013. Retrieved Oct 13, 2016.
  12. ^ "Height 100 Hits of 1979/Top 100 Songs of 1979". Musicoutfitters.com . Retrieved Oct 13, 2016.
  13. ^ "Developed Contemporary Songs – Twelvemonth-Terminate 1979". Billboard. January 2, 2013. Retrieved July xviii, 2021.
  14. ^ "Hot State Songs – Year-Stop 1979". Billboard. January two, 2013. Retrieved July xviii, 2021.
  15. ^ "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1979". Tropicalglen.com. Dec 29, 1979. Archived from the original on July 13, 2014. Retrieved October 13, 2016.
  16. ^ "Danish unmarried certifications – Kenny Rogers – The Gambler". IFPI Danmark. Retrieved September xv, 2021.
  17. ^ "New Zealand single certifications – Kenny Rogers – The Gambler". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved March 28, 2020.
  18. ^ "British single certifications – Kenny Rogers – The Gambler". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  19. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Pinnacle 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, 2d edition. Tape Research. p. 298.
  20. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 207.
  21. ^ Matt Bjorke (Nov 13, 2013). "Country Chart News - The Peak thirty Digital Singles - November thirteen, 2013: CMA Awards Drive Sales; Eric Church "The Outsiders" #1; Taylor Swift "Ruby-red" #iii". Roughstock. Archived from the original on April 21, 2014.
  22. ^ "National Recording Registry Reaches 500". Library of Congress. March 21, 2018. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
  23. ^ "All-time of the 70's & eighty's". WDDF Radio. Retrieved October xiii, 2016.
  24. ^ Trust, Gary (March thirty, 2020). "Kenny Rogers Has the Top Two Best-selling Songs of the Calendar week". Billboard . Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  25. ^ "Kenny Rogers' The Gambler on the Muppet Bear witness". May 14, 2020. Archived from the original on December 14, 2021 – via YouTube.
  26. ^ Betts, Stephen L. (March 21, 2020). "Run into Kenny Rogers Perform 'The Gambler' on 'The Muppet Show'". Rolling Rock . Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  27. ^ "Does anyone know the lyrics for".

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics of this vocal
  • Kenny Rogers - The Gambler on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(song)

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