[nickcarraway]

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

[Frank Drebin]

A great musical talent.

[Larry Lucido]

"Well, he IS the gambler!"

[toddausauras]

Think of how strong the competition was for the gambler to only go to #16 in the pop charts.

[mairdie]

Star Trek - Gambler - Kenny Rogers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxb3y1mlHyY

[taxcontrol]

I dont play an instrument and can only carry a tune with a bucket. But I did sing my kids to sleep with that song. They still love it ... but want someone else to sing it.

[Fiji Hill]

My favorite Kenny Rogers song.

That Crazy Feeling (1957)

[Fiji Hill]

In April 1977, another trademark story song, “Lucille,” had begun a run of four country chart-toppers in just 16 months.

This is a different song, but it seems to ba about the same Lucille.

Lucille-- the Drifters (1954)

[Zhang Fei]

But this was the one Kenny Rogers song that found its way onto the charts out of the country ghetto:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-0-7fg8oAO4

[wgmalabama]

Funny how Elvis’s song “In the Ghetto” has comments turned off. I guess they don’t want questions on 40+ years of the SOS.

[BDParrish]

Utterly useless advice from a stranger on a train.
I had a friend who was like that. Whatever you did, when it turned out wrong, he was there to tell you how you should have done the other thing.
“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” a saying that means, Don’t take risks.
“Nothing ventured nothing gained” a saying that means DO take risks!
So, when do you hold ‘em?
When you find out that you held the better cards.
When do you fold ‘em?
When you find out that the other guy had the better hand.
When do you find out?
When it is too late!

But hey who actually listens to the words of a song anyway?