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Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (album)

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Released
  
1969

Release date
  
1969

Genre
  
Pop music

Recorded
  
Burbank, California

Label
  
Reprise Records

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The First Edition '69 (1969)
  
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (1969)

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (1969)
  
Something's Burning (1970)

Artist
  
Kenny Rogers and The First Edition

Producers
  
Glen D. Hardin, Jimmy Bowen, Mike Post

Similar
  
The Ballad of Calico, Tell It All Brother, Something's Burning, Love Lifted Me, Share Your Love

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town is the fourth album by the group The First Edition. This was the first album to credit the group as Kenny Rogers & The First Edition. The title song reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States (and was a success mirrored world-wide), while "Reuben James" became a top-30 hit in 1970.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" (Mel Tillis)
  2. "Me and Bobby McGee" (Kris Kristofferson)
  3. "New Design" (P.F. Sloan)
  4. "Always Leaving, Always Gone" (Dick Monda)
  5. "Listen To The Music" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil)
  6. "Sunshine" (Mickey Newbury)
  7. "Once Again She's All Alone" (Mike Settle)
  8. "Girl Get a Hold of Yourself" (Kenny Rogers)
  9. "Good Time Liberator" (Kenny Rogers, Mike Settle)
  10. "Reuben James" (Alex Harvey, Barry Etris)

Personnel

  • Kenny Rogers - Bass guitar, vocals
  • Mike Settle - Rhythm guitar, vocals
  • Thelma Camacho - background vocals
  • Mary Arnold - backing vocals
  • Terry Williams - lead guitar
  • Mickey Jones - drums

    • Songs

    1Ruby - Don't Take Your Love to Town2:58
    2Me & Bobby McGee2:40
    3New Design2:20

    References

    Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (album) Wikipedia
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