Tuesday, 26 April 2011

126. Islands In The Stream – Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton (1983)


I remember hearing this song on ‘Top Of The Pops’ in 1983 and the watching the accompanying video of a live performance by Dolly and Kenny!

Following on from his success working with Barbara Striesand on ‘Guilty’ (which is another great album) Barry Gibb of BeeGees fame worked on producing an album with country singer Kenny Rogers. The album was called ‘Eyes That See In The Dark’ and the title song from that album is another one of my personal favourite BeeGees written songs, but this is also another great song and the version that Dolly and Kenny produced is different in style to the BeeGees version and other versions.

I have always been keen on ‘country and western’ music since George Hamilton had a lunchtime country tv show on ATV when I was a child that my mother watched just before ‘Crown Court’ and now and again a truly great country song comes along. This is a fabulous version.

Hope you enjoy it…


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