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Lucille (Kenny Rogers song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Lucille'" is a song written by Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in January 1977 as the second and final single from the album 'Kenny Rogers'. It became Rogers' first major hit as a solo artist after leaving the successful country/rock group The First Edition the previous year. An international hit, it reached number 1 on the Billboard Country Singles chart and number 5 on the 'Billboard' Hot 100. Overseas, "Lucille" reached the top of the UK Singles Chart in June 1977, the first of Rogers' two number one singles there.
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The song, told by the narrator (Rogers), tells the story of a man in a bar in Toledo, Ohio, who acquaints himself with a downhearted married woman named Lucille. An inebriated Lucille admits her unhappiness in life and a longing for adventure. Her husband arrives and approaches her and the intimidated narrator. The brokenhearted husband, starting to shake, scorns her for her inconvenient timing in abandoning him "with 4 hungry children and a crop in the field," leaving him with a " hurtin' " that refuses to heal. After the husband leaves, Lucille and the narrator make their way to a hotel room. The beautiful woman comes to the narrator, but is blindsided by his odd, sudden change of heart; he recalls the recurring haunting words of her husband and feels unable to respond to her advances.
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Category:UK Singles Chart number-one singles
Category:1977 singles
Category:1977 songs
Category:Kenny Rogers songs
Category:Waylon Jennings songs
Category:Billy Currington songs
Category:Songs written by Roger Bowling (songwriter)
Category:Songs written by Hal Bynum
Category:Song recordings produced by Larry Butler (producer)
Category:RPM Top Singles number-one singles
Category:United Artists Records singles
Category:Number-one singles in South Africa
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