Kenny Rogers to Receive ASCAP Honor

Posted by amyclark on 08/17/2008
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9/18/2007 Stephen L. Betts   Kenny Rogers will receive the prestigious Golden Note Award during the 45th Annual ASCAP Country Music Awards ceremony, Oct. 15 at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. The invitation-only gala will also serve as occasion for special awards to be given to ASCAP’s Songwriter of the Year, Songwriter/Artist of the Year, Song of the Year and Publisher of the Year. The ASCAP Golden Note Award is presented to songwriters, composers and artists who have achieved extraordinary career milestones. Previous recipients of this special recognition include Garth Brooks, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Alan Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Tom Petty, André Previn, Michael W. Smith, Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones, among others. Kenny Rogers has been a major recording and concert star for four decades, topping the country and pop charts repeatedly. A one-time member of the folk-pop group, the New Christy Minstrels, Kenny scored his first major hit fronting the First Edition with "I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)." Other major crossover hits throughout his career include “Lucille,” “The Gambler,” “You Decorated My Life,” “Lady,” and “Islands in the Stream” (with Dolly Parton).