The Vinyl Countdown # 1133

Kenny Rogers, Ten Years of Gold (1977)

Kenny Rogers was the sound of summer in Hawke’s Bay in the late 1970s and early 1980s - or rather, I should say, it was the sound of my summer, a crucial part of the summer soundtrack. I had no say in it by the way. My father had the tape in the car. My grandparents had the tapes and LPs. We’d spend a week or two ou…