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Every Time Two Fools Collide

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As much as I love the music of Kenny Rogers and Dottie West, this is NOT THE ORIGINAL album that was released in 1978 under the same title. The original album featured a beige background, with Dottie leaning up on Kenny's shoulder. This is deliberate deception on the part of EMI to make you think you are getting the original album, when in fact, what you are really getting is a compilation of the first album (Every Time Two Fools Collide) from 1978 and their second one, "Classics", from 1979. I don't understand why these companies continue to do this. The same goes for the Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton "Once Upon a Christmas" album. Most of Kenny's solo songs have been omitted entirely, replaced with a Dolly Parton song (Hard Candy Christmas) which wasn't even part of the original LP release in 1984! What's going on? This is precisely the reason I hang on to my old 8-tracks and vinyl LP's, as tired and wore out as they may be. Now, getting back on track here, the ORIGINAL "Every Time Two Fools Collide" album contained these tracks in the following order:

1. Every Time Two Fools Collide
2. You And Me
3. What's Wrong With Us Today
4. Beautiful Lies
5. That's The Way It Could Have Been
6. Why Don't We Go Somewhere And Love
7. Baby I'm A Want You
8. Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight
9. The Loving Gift
10 We Love Each Other.

That's the way I remember it folks, and that's the way it should have been re-issued. I'm sorry, but either release the original album in its entirety without butchering it up or omitting songs, or just don't even bother. I'm tired of wasting my time and money on deceptive and sly business practices from the music industry.

This is one of my favorite albums of all time and, since I no longer have a turntable, I ordered the CD. I was very disappointed to discover that the songs on the CD were not at all like the record. I returned the CD and still had to pay the shipping. I do feel that this was false advertising on behalf of the CD company who used the same title as the record, but did not include the same songs.

Every Kenny & Dottie song is wonderful. There are some slow songes on this album and some high energy songs. Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight is one of those high eneregy sings. Any Kenny fan needs to have this album. It's wonderful!!

It seems that some customers have been misled by the title, which corresponds to that of the first duets album recorded together by Kenny and Dottie. Although this is not a re-issue of that original album, these are definitely their original recordings. Most of the tracks here are actually taken from their second duets album, Classics, which consisted mainly of covers of famous songs.

So here you get the two big hits from their first duets album (Every time two fools collide, Anyone who isn't me tonight), their last duet hit (What are we doing in love), which didn't appear on either of their two duet albums - it came later - and covers of You needed me, All I ever need is you, Hey won't you play another somebody done somebody wrong song, Let it be me, Till I can make it on my own and You've lost that loving feeling. Some of these covers were big hits for Kenny and Dottie.

Though the packaging is modest without liner notes or credits (this is a budget collection), this collection provides a good sample of the duets that Kenny and Dottie recorded together. Many of these tracks (and some not included here) can be found tucked away in solo compilations by Kenny and Dottie but this provides a rare opportunity to hear their duets as a collection. It'll do until a more complete collection is released - especially at the price.

Well, I was disappointed to find out when I received this CD that it wasn't a rerelease of the original album. I saw the title and purchased it without looking at the song contents. OH well, it is still a great album, just not what I was looking for, but I will keep it as I love Dottie West! I hope they eventually do a rerelease of the original album, cause when they do I will buy it...but until then I will make sure to view song contents from now on so I don't do this again!

This CD is not a remake of Kenny and Dottie's album. If you see it is subtitled "The Very Best of" and is therefore a COMPLATION of the two albums they made!

I enjoyed this years ago on vinyl LP. Thought the combined vocals were great then and still do. The songs stand the test of time. Not a CD I will listen to everyday but certainly worth adding to my collection for the occasional trip down Memory Lane.

This is one of my favorite CD's. I've enjoyed many hours of listening pleasure. One of their best duet collectons. You will enjoy!

I have the original album and loved it years ago. I looked to see if I could find a CD on Amazon, and was successful, of course. The CD is definitely not as good as the album, but I still like the music and their two voices together. This brings back old memories too. I would recommend this CD for anyone who has been a fan of these two people and their music. It is fun!

Legend has it that Dottie was in the recording studio to do a new album, when Kenny Rogers heard her singing, and sang along to what eventually became the title track to this album. The impromptu sing-along resulted in the track being recorded as a duet, with the rest of this album built around it.

Side 1 opens with the title track, which became a country number one hit, followed by You and me (the same song that Johnny Cash and June Carter recorded as a duet, but completely different from the identically-titled Tammy Wynette song). Two less famous but equally brilliant songs (What's wrong with us today?, Beautiful lies) come next. Side 1 closes with That's the way it could have been, which really is a cover of a Tammy Wynette song.

Side 2 opens with a lovely ballad, Why don't we go somewhere and love? Next is a cover of Baby I'm a-want you (Bread), followed by the upbeat Anyone who isn't me tonight, which became a top ten country hit. Two more covers complete Side 2, these being Loving gift (Kris Kristofferson) and We love each other (Charlie Rich).

This outstanding album was briefly made available on CD as part of a British budget twofer (with Classics, the follow-up album) but is likely to be easier to find on vinyl, although many of the tracks have appeared on Kenny Rogers compilations. Some have appeared on Dottie West compilations, but there aren't many of those. One way or another, if you can hear this album in its entirety, it's definitely worth a listen.