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Kenny Rogers - Every Time Two Fools Collide: The Best of Kenny Rogers & Dottie West Audio CD

A fair review of the Kenny Rogers "Every Time Two Fools Collide: The Best of Kenny Rogers & Dottie West" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Kenny Rogers reviews here, or go back to the Kenny Rogers tabs.

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Title: Every Time Two Fools Collide: The Best of Kenny Rogers & Dottie West
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Release Date: 1995-11-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Every Time Two Fools Collide 2: You Needed Me 3: All I Ever Need Is You 4: What Are We Doin' In Love 5: (Hey, Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong 6: Let It Be Me 7: Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight 8: 'Til I Can Make It On My Own 9: Together Again 10: You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

Great Songs
I looked to see if I could find a CD on Amazon, and was successful, of course. I have the original album and loved it years ago. The CD is definitely not as good as the album, but I still like the music and their two voices together. This brings back old memories too. I would recommend this CD for anyone who has been a fan of these two people and their music. It is fun!.


Not the original, but I still love it!
I saw the title and purchased it without looking at the song contents. Well, I was disappointed to find out when I received this CD that it wasn't a rerelease of the original album. OH well, it is still a great album, just not what I was looking for, but I will keep it as I love Dottie West! I hope they eventually do a rerelease of the original album, cause when they do I will buy it. . . but until then I will make sure to view song contents from now on so I don't do this again!.


Classic '70's hits
This album features their three Number 1 hits, "Everytime two fools collide", "All I ever need is you" and "What are we doing in love". This is a great collection of duets by Kenny Rogers and Dottie West, a duo who were hugely popular in the late-70s, both as solo singers and together. Also featured is their top 5 "Anyone who isn't me tonight" and another popular cut "'Til I can make it on my own". Country fans will be familiar with most of the material here, a lot of pop fans too.
My favorite cut has to be "Let it be me", both singers are at their best on this performance, and it would have been great to use this as the closing track, but een so, this collection is great.

In the 1990's EMI issued a 20 track collection of duets by Kenny and Dottie in the UK which contained both of their studio albums from 1978 and 1979, and ultimately 9 of the 10 cuts here (plus 11 others) however, that is long out of print. The only "extra" you get here is "What are we doing in love", as it didn't appear on either album, but was a single release from 1981.

This CD, however, is cheaply priced, but the music is gourmet. .


Budget compilation of original recordings
Although this is not a re-issue of that original album, these are definitely their original recordings. It seems that some customers have been misled by the title, which corresponds to that of the first duets album recorded together by Kenny and Dottie. Most of the tracks here are actually taken from their second duets album, Classics, which consisted mainly of covers of famous songs.

So here you get the two big hits from their first duets album (Every time two fools collide, Anyone who isn't me tonight), their last duet hit (What are we doing in love), which didn't appear on either of their two duet albums - it came later - and covers of You needed me, All I ever need is you, Hey won't you play another somebody done somebody wrong song, Let it be me, Till I can make it on my own and You've lost that loving feeling. Some of these covers were big hits for Kenny and Dottie.

Though the packaging is modest without liner notes or credits (this is a budget collection), this collection provides a good sample of the duets that Kenny and Dottie recorded together. Many of these tracks (and some not included here) can be found tucked away in solo compilations by Kenny and Dottie but this provides a rare opportunity to hear their duets as a collection. It'll do until a more complete collection is released - especially at the price.


NOT THE ORIGINAL...
The original album featured a beige background, with Dottie leaning up on Kenny's shoulder. As much as I love the music of Kenny Rogers and Dottie West, this is NOT THE ORIGINAL album that was released in 1978 under the same title. This is deliberate deception on the part of EMI to make you think you are getting the original album, when in fact, what you are really getting is a compilation of the first album (Every Time Two Fools Collide) from 1978 and their second one, "Classics", from 1979. I don't understand why these companies continue to do this. The same goes for the Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton "Once Upon a Christmas" album. Most of Kenny's solo songs have been omitted entirely, replaced with a Dolly Parton song (Hard Candy Christmas) which wasn't even part of the original LP release in 1984! What's going on? This is precisely the reason I hang on to my old 8-tracks and vinyl LP's, as tired and wore out as they may be. Now, getting back on track here, the ORIGINAL "Every Time Two Fools Collide" album contained these tracks in the following order:

1. Every Time Two Fools Collide
2. You And Me
3. What's Wrong With Us Today
4. Beautiful Lies
5. That's The Way It Could Have Been
6. Why Don't We Go Somewhere And Love
7. Baby I'm A Want You
8. Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight
9. The Loving Gift
10 We Love Each Other.

That's the way I remember it folks, and that's the way it should have been re-issued. I'm sorry, but either release the original album in its entirety without butchering it up or omitting songs, or just don't even bother. I'm tired of wasting my time and money on deceptive and sly business practices from the music industry.


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