"The Gambler" nearly slipped away before Kenny Rogers turned it into one of the most iconic songs in country music history.

Kenny Rogers, the smooth, Grammy-winning balladeer who spanned jazz, folk, country and pop with such hits as "Lucille," "Lady" and "Islands in the Stream" and embraced his persona as "The Gambler" on ...

Kenny Rogers, the genre-spanning icon who became the king of soft rock, released a slew of these career-defining hits in his ...

COUNTRY music legend Don Schlitz, who penned Kenny Rogers’ classic hit The Gambler, has died aged 73. The North Carolina songwriter’s death was announced on Friday in a statement by ...

On this day (December 1) in 1983, Kenny Rogers was at the top of the country albums chart with Eyes That See in the Dark. It spent 16 weeks at No. 1 and produced one of the biggest hits of his career.

Kenny Rogers' legacy is more than just a slew of albums full of cross-genre hits and awards — it's also the children he left behind to carry on his memory. Throughout the course of his life, Kenny was ...

Don Schlitz, who died April 16, became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017, thanks in part to a celebrated catalogue that included these five hit songs.

Don Schlitz, who has died of an aneurysm aged 73, was a songwriter who had a huge global hit with Kenny Rogers’s version of The Gambler, one of the biggest sellers in country music history; in the UK ...

Interestingly, Cash wound up including the cover on his album, Gone Girl, which hit music stores on Nov. 13, 1978, two days before Rogers' record release. Of course, it became Rogers' seminal hit, and ...

Country Music Hall of Famer Don Schlitz, songwriter behind hits for Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis and The Judds, has died at age 73 in Nashville.