Vote for Love

Vote for Love
Studio album by Kenny Rogers
Released	January 2, 1996
Recorded	1995
Studio	Creative Recording and Seventeen Grand Recording (Nashville, Tennessee) Candock Recording Studio (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina)
Genre	Country
Length	54:19(Disc 1)    51:05 (Disc 2) 1:45:24 (Total)
Label	QvC
Producer	Jim McKell Bergen White

Vote for Love is a 1996 album by Kenny Rogers released exclusively for sale on QVC. ^{[1] [2]} It was later made available in retail stores under the title Always & Forever.

Track listing

Disc 1

1. "Have I Told You Lately" (Van Morrison) [4:55]
   • (previously released by Van Morrison on the 1989 album Avalon Sunset )
2. "As Time Goes By" (Herman Hupfeld) [2:51]
   • (previously recorded by Rudy Vallee in 1931 and re-released in 1943)
   • (used by Dooley Wilson in the 1942 film Casablanca )
3. "Endless Love" (Lionel Richie) [3:50]
   • (previously recorded by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross on the 1981 album Endless Love: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack )
4. "Unforgettable" (Irving Gordon) [3:21]
   • (previously recorded by Nat King Cole on the 1951 album Penthouse Serenade )
5. "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) [4:21]
   • (previously recorded by The Flamingos on the 1959 album Flamingo Serenade)
   • (originally written for the 1934 film Dames )
6. "Evergreen" (Barbra Streisand, Paul Williams) [3:35]
   • (previously recorded by Barbra Streisand on the 1976 soundtrack A Star Is Born )
7. "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) [3:18]
   • (previously recorded by Johnny Mathis on the 1959 album Heavenly )
   • (previously recorded by Ray Stevens on the 1975 album Misty)
8. "She Believes in Me" (Steve Gibb) [4:19]
   • (from the 1978 album The Gambler )
9. "Always" (Irving Berlin) [2:37]
   • (written in 1925, previously used in the 1942 film The Pride of the Yankees )
   • (covered by many artists including Frank Sinatra and Patsy Cline)
10. "When I Fall in Love" (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) [3:25]
    • (previously recorded by Doris Day in the 1952 film One Minute to Zero )
11. "Crazy" (Willie Nelson) [3:17]
    • (previously recorded by Patsy Cline in 1961)
12. "When a Man Loves a Woman" (Sam M. Lewis, Andrew Wright) [3:51]
    • (previously recorded by Percy Sledge on the 1966 album When a Man Loves a Woman)
13. "You Decorated My Life" (Debbie Hupp, Bob Morrison) [3:45]
    • (from the 1979 album Kenny )
14. "I Can't Help Falling in Love" (Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti, George David Weiss) [3:18]
    • (previously recorded by Elvis Presley on the 1961 soundtrack Blue Hawaii )
15. "The Wind Beneath My Wings" (Larry Henley, Jeff Silbar) [3:36]
    • (previously recorded by Bette Midler on the 1988 soundtrack Beaches )

Disc 2

1. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) [2:39]
   • (originally performed by Sam Lanin and his Orchestra in 1924)
   • (has also appeared in numerous movies including the 1939 movie The Roaring Twenties - sung by Priscilla Lane)
2. "I Swear" (Gary Baker, Frank J. Myers) [3:49]
   • (previously recorded by John Michael Montgomery on the 1994 album Kickin' It Up )
3. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) [3:43]
   • (previously recorded by Carmichael in 1927)
   • (made popular by Isham Jones in 1930)
4. "I Will Always Love You" (Dolly Parton) [2:59]
   • (originally released by Dolly Parton on the 1974 album Jolene )
   • (also covered by Whitney Houston on the 1992 soundtrack The Bodyguard )
5. "You Send Me" (Sam Cooke) [3:10]
   • (originally sung by Sam Cooke from the 1957 album Sam Cooke)
6. "Through the Years" (Steve Dorff, Marty Panzer) [3:42]
   • (from the 1981 album Share Your Love )
7. "Unchained Melody" (Alex North, Hy Zaret) [3:28]
   • (previously recorded by The Righteous Brothers from the 1965 album Just Once in My Life)
8. "Lady" (Lionel Richie) [3:54]
   • (from the 1980 album 1980 Greatest Hits )
9. "Always and Forever" (Rod Temperton) [4:48]
   • (previously recorded by Heatwave from the 1976 album Too Hot to Handle )
10. "My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) [4:07]
    • (from the 1994 album Timepiece )
11. "Somewhere My Love" (Maurice Jarre, Paul Francis Webster) [2:44]
    • (previously recorded by Ray Conniff from the 1966 album Somewhere My Love)
12. "You Are So Beautiful" (Bruce Fisher, Billy Preston) [3:09]
    • (from the album We've Got Tonight )
13. "You Light Up My Life" (Joe Brooks) [3:09]
    • (previously recorded by Debby Boone from the 1977 album You Light Up My Life )
    • (also used for the film of the same name)
14. "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) [2:40]
    • (previously recorded by The Four Aces in 1955)
15. "Love Me Tender" (Vera Matson, Elvis Presley) [3:04]
    • (previously recorded by Presley from the 1956 album Elvis )

Production

• Bergen White – producer, arrangements
• Jim McKell – producer, recording, mixing, mastering
• Kevin Ryan – assistant engineer
• Nick Sayler – assistant engineer
• Paul Skaife – assistant engineer
• Mark Lambert – additional engineer
• Mills Logan – additional engineer
• Frank Green – mastering
• Digital Editing & Mastering (Nashville, Tennessee) – mastering location
• Jan Greenfield – production coordinator

Personnel

Musicians and Vocalists

Tracks 1-7, 9, 11, 12, 14-20, 22, 24, 26 & 28-30

• Kenny Rogers – lead vocals
• David Briggs – acoustic piano
• Shane Keister – acoustic piano, electric piano, Hammond B3 organ, synthesizers
• Pat Bergeson – electric guitars, harmonica
• John Willis – acoustic guitars, electric guitars
• Bob Burns – acoustic bass, electric bass
• Paul Leim – drums, percussion
• Farrell Morris – percussion, timpani, vibraphone
• Jim Horn – saxophones, flutes
• Bobby Taylor – oboe, English horn
• George Tidwell – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Tom McAninch – French horn
• The Nashville String Machine – strings
• Bergen White – string conductor, backing vocals
• Carl Gorodetzky – concertmaster
• Jana King – backing vocals
• Lisa Silver – backing vocals

The Kenny Rogers Band

Tracks 8, 10, 13, 21, 23, 25 & 27

• Kenny Rogers – vocals
• Steve Glassmeyer – acoustic piano
• Gene Golden – synthesizers
• Warren Hartman – synthesizers, string arrangements (10)
• Randy Dorman – acoustic guitars, electric guitar solos
• Rick Harper – electric guitars
• Bob Burns – bass guitar
• Lynn Hammann – drums

References

2. "Billboard". Books.google.com. January 20, 1996. p. 9.