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REMEMBERING KENNY ROGERS: Aug 21st 1938 Mar 20th 2020 It's now a year since we lost American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, record producer, and entrepr...eneur Kenny Rogers. The video here is Kenny in his post-New Christy Minstrels outfit KENNY ROGERS & THE FIRST EDITION performing a three song Medley ''Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town'', ''But You Know I Love You'' & ''Reuben James'' live on The Johnny Cash Show. NOTE: I've improved the picture and colour saturation of the original colour clip. Country star Mel Tillis wrote the song 'Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town'', which told the story of a wounded soldier who returned home to a woman who showed him little sympathy, leaving him to go out at night and enjoy the company of other men. All he could do was beg her to stay home and keep him company, but his pleas fell on deaf ears. Tillis based the song on a couple who lived near his family in Florida. In real life, the man was wounded in Germany in World War II and sent to recuperate in England. There, he married a nurse who took care of him at the hospital. The two of them moved to Florida shortly afterward, but he made periodic return trips to the hospital as problems with his wounds kept flaring up. His wife saw another man as the veteran lay in the hospital. Tillis was the first to release this song, including it on his 1967 album Life's That Way. Waylon Jennings, Johnny Darrell, The Statler Brothers and Bobby Goldsboro all recorded the song later that year, with Darrell's version going to #9 on the Country chart. Kenny Rogers recorded the definitive version with his band The First Edition in 1969, taking it to #2 in the UK and to #6 on both the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts. A lot of controversy surrounded this song when it became a hit for Kenny Rogers in 1969, as the Vietnam War was raging and the song was often assumed to be about a man who came home crippled from that war. Rogers would perform the song in a jovial manner, and the crowd would often clap and sing along, so to some it was seen as disrespectful to veterans. In a 1970 interview with Beat Instrumental, Rogers defended the song, saying: "Look, we don't see ourselves as politicians, even if a lot of pop groups think they are in the running for a Presidential nomination. We are there, primarily, to entertain. Now if we can entertain by providing thought-provoking songs, then that's all to the good. But the guys who said 'Ruby' was about Vietnam were way off target it was about Korea. But whatever the message, and however you interpret it, fact is that we wouldn't have looked at it if it hadn't been a GOOD song. Just wanna make good records, that's all." ----------------------------------------- Hello, and a warm welcome to COLOURING THE PAST. Running the page is a one-man operation. I write and research the articles, and edit the videos which involves several hours of work - upscaling, colourising and tweaking in various software. If you could see fit to make a small donation then it would help me to keep the page running. Thank you and best wishes, Paul Just visit one of the links to donate (all secure connections): PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.me/decade7787 JUSTGIVING: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ctp -----------------------------------------

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