Kenny Rogers sent 21 songs to the top of the Hot Country Songs chart during his career. However, none of them stuck like “The Gambler.” The single spent three weeks at No. 1 in 1978 and became Rogers’ ...

Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton's 'We've Got Tonight' defined early ’80s country-pop ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A prolific songwriter who penned numerous chart-topping singles for some of the genre’s biggest names has died. He was 73. Don ...

Don Schlitz, who died April 16, became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017, thanks in part to a celebrated catalogue that included these five hit songs.

Country Music Hall of Famer Don Schlitz, songwriter behind hits for Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis and The Judds, has died at age 73 in Nashville.

For decades, Kenny Rogers had a rare gift for turning life’s quietest moments into unforgettable stories that stayed with listeners long after the music stopped. One of his greatest hits, a 1981 ...

Don Schlitz, the man who wrote the iconic song about poker in the Old West, "The Gambler," died last week at the age of 73.

COUNTRY music legend Don Schlitz, who penned Kenny Rogers’ classic hit The Gambler, has died aged 73. The North Carolina songwriter’s death was announced on Friday in a statement by ...