Kenny Rogers released “The Gambler” as the title track to his November 1978 record to tremendous critical acclaim. The song performed incredibly well on both the country and pop charts, garnering ...

These three 1970s country songs are all now considered guilty pleasures or over-hyped hits. Nevertheless, they remain great.

Kenny Rogers scored the defining hit of his career when he released “The Gambler” in 1978, but he was not the first artist to record the song. Another well-known star cut it before him, and another ...

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Forty-five years ago, on Dec. 16, 1978, Kenny Rogers’ trademark song “The Gambler” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs, giving the country star his third No. 1 of the year. “The Gambler” would ...

Written by David Schlitz in 1976 and made famous by Kenny Rogers in 1978, "The Gambler" is a classic country song about a train, a stranger, and a conversation about poker. Schlitz, a 23-year-old ...

When the Salzburg festival mounted a production of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” in 2024, it wasn’t the usual gamble. Audiences don’t flock to the composer’s operas because they’re grim, often ...