| Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer | |
| Cover: | Kenny Rogers - Dont Fall single.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes |
| Album: | Gideon |
| B-Side: | Gideon Tanner |
| Released: | March 1980 |
| Genre: | Country, soft rock[1] |
| Length: | 3:39 |
| Label: | United Artists |
| Chronology: | Kenny Rogers |
| Prev Title: | Coward of the County |
| Prev Year: | 1979 |
| Next Title: | Love the World Away |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
"Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" is a song recorded by American singers Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes, the latter of whom wrote the song with her husband David Ellingson. It was released in March 1980 as the first single from Rogers' album Gideon. It was also recorded in Spanish as "No Te Enamores De Un Loco". The song was the only duet from the album Gideon.
While recording the song in Nashville, Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes sang facing each other with live musicians while Carnes had to improvise singing the melody in a different key[2] than she had prepared to do when she came to the studio.
Record World said that the singers "exude an awesome emotional intensity" on the song.[3]
Rogers and Carnes performed the track live at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, and it featured on the CBS TV special Kenny Rogers' America, broadcast on November 20, 1980.[4]
| Chart (1980) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] | 38 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
| Canadian RPM Top Singles | 3 |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks | 1 |