Capitol Nashville sent “Goodbye” by KennyRogers to country radio with the note, “those closest to Kenny wanted to make this track available to all of this fans'
to country radio with the note, “those closest to Kenny wanted to make this track available to all of this fans.” The move came one week after the superstar died on March 20 at the age of 81., a 45-track compilation released by Time Life in 2009, as one of three previously unreleased tunes --but otherwise the story behind the song was a bit of a mystery.BillboardAs then-head of Capitol Nashville, Dungan signed Rogers in 2006.
“I went back to him and said, ‘How would you like to make a new record? We’ll cut your vocal really dry. I don’t want any of the reverb [from the earlier records]. I think that was awful. But we’ll make the production fat and perfect.’”as producer, Rogers cut the album as Dungan suggested. One problem: Rogers hated it. “He wasn’t used to hearing his voice that way,” Dungan says. “Then, two weeks later, he called me and said it was his favorite record he’d ever made.
While Capitol Nashville’s radio promotion team is working the song to radio, the idea is for fans to enjoy the music more than anything else. “I don’t want it to look like we’re trying to take advantage of Kenny’s passing,” he said. “I don’t want radio to feel like we’re jamming on them.” He believes that Rogers and Brown cut around five tracks, which the label is gathering together to review. As far as releasing all the songs, Dungan says it is too soon to make any decision. “I don’t know if we’re going to put them out,” he says. “We don’t want to look like we’re opportunistic, but if they’re good songs, then the fans should hear them.”“He was just a blast to hang around,” he says, recalling a special evening in 2005 the night before Rogers and Richie cut an episode of CMT’s.
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