WCCQ’s Rick Jackson Honors Kenny Rogers Sunday from 6am-9am
Country Music legend Kenny Rogers passed away March 20th at the age of 81. This Sunday April 5th WCCQ’s Rick Jackson will honor his life and music for 3 hours from 6am-9am. Country music lost another gem when Joe Diffie lost his battle with Coronavirus last Sunday. Rick will be honoring Joe next Saturday & Sunday from 6am-9am.
Though he was most successful with country audiences, Rogers charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres, topped the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone, and sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
Two of his albums, The Gambler and Kenny, were featured in the About.com poll of “The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever”.[3] He was voted the “Favorite Singer of All Time” in a 1986 joint poll by readers of both USA Today and People.[4] He has received numerous awards such as the AMAs, Grammys, ACMs and CMAs, as well as a lifetime achievement award for a career spanning six decades in 2003.[5] Later success included the 2006 album release, Water & Bridges, an across the board hit, that hit the Top 5 in the Billboard Country Albums sales charts, also charting in the Top 15 of the Billboard 200. The first single from the album, “I Can’t Unlove You“, was also a sizable chart hit. Remaining a popular entertainer around the world, he continued to tour regularly until his retirement in 2017.
He acted in a variety of movies and television shows, most notably the title roles in Kenny Rogers as The Gambler and the MacShayne series for The NBC Mystery Movie, and the 1982 feature film Six Pack.[6][7] He was a co-founder of the restaurant chain Kenny Rogers Roasters in collaboration with former Kentucky Fried Chicken CEO John Y. Brown Jr.. Although the stores closed in the United States, they are still a fixture in Asia.
Here’s more from Taste of Country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-03skvD3g4
