Kenny Rogers - 42 Ultimate Hits (2004)

CD1
1   Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
2   Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
3   Reuben James
4   Something's Burning
5   Tell It All Brother
6   Love Lifted Me
7   Lucille
8   Daytime Friends (with Dottie West)
9   Sweet Music Man
10   Every Time Two Fools Collide (with Dottie West)
11   Love Or Something Like It
12   Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight (with Dottie West)
13   The Gambler
14   All I Ever Need Is You (with Dottie West)
15   She Believes In Me
16   'Til I Can Make It On My Own (with Dottie West)
17   You Decorated My Life
18   Coward Of The County
19   Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer (with Kim Carnes)
20   Love The World Away
21   Lady

CD2
1   What Are We Doin' In Love (with Dottie West)
2   I Don't Need You
3   Share Your Love With Me
4   Blaze Of Glory
5   Through The Years
6   Love Will Turn You Around
7   A Love Song
8   We've Got Tonight (with Sheena Easton)
9   Scarlet Fever
10   Islands In The Stream (with Dolly Parton)
11   Buried Treasure
12   Crazy
13   Morning Desire
14   Make No Mistake, She's Mine (with Ronnie Milsap)
15   Twenty Years Ago
16   The Vows Go Unbroken
17   The Greatest
18   Buy Me A Rose (with Alison Krauss and Billy Dean)
19   It's A Beautiful Life
20   My World Is Over (with Whitney Duncan) (new song)
21   We Are The Same (new song)

Personnel: 
Kenny Rogers (vocals); 
Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Kim Carnes, Ronnie Milsap, 
Sheena Easton, Billy Dean, Whitney Duncan (vocals).

Kenny Rogers compilations tend to drift in and out of print, yet in a sense it doesn't matter much, because most featured most of the big hits. However, very few contained them all and, as of 2004, the only collection in print that contained all his big hits, from the First Edition through the mid-'80s, was 1999's four-disc box set Through the Years, which was too exhaustive for all but dedicated Rogers fans. So, there was a need for a new, relatively concise collection that featured all the hits; hence Capitol's 42 Ultimate Hits, a double-disc set that spans Kenny's entire career, from the First Edition to two new tracks, including a duet with Whitney Duncan. There's not much missing -- a few First Edition singles, along with several post-Eyes That See in the Dark hits that weren't all that memorable, neither of which are missed -- and it could even be argued that it stretches a little bit too far into the present on its second disc, which loses its momentum halfway through. Nevertheless, these are minor complaints, since the bulk of the collection provides Kenny Rogers' biggest songs -- among them "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)," "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town," "Lucille," "Every Time Two Fools Collide," "The Gambler," "Coward of the County," "You Decorated My Life," "Lady," "Love Will Turn You Around," and "Islands in the Stream" -- in a chronological order and a listenable sequence. It may fall a little short of definitive, but it's still the best compilation on the market as of this writing. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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