Share Your Love Explained

Share Your Love
Type:	studio
Artist:	Kenny Rogers
Cover:	Share Your Love.jpg
Released:	24 June 1981
Recorded:	1981
Studio:	Concorde Recording, Los Angeles, California Devonshire, Los Angeles, California
Genre:	Country
Length:	36:28
Label:	Liberty
Producer:	Lionel Richie
Prev Title:	Greatest Hits
Prev Year:	1980
Next Title:	Christmas
Next Year:	1981

Share Your Love is a studio album by country singer Kenny Rogers, released in 1981. Produced by Lionel Richie, it is also Rogers' first with Liberty Records besides his Greatest Hits album. The album has sold nine million copies worldwide.

Recording

Rogers recorded portions of the album at Concorde Recording Center, where he had recorded his single "Lady", and purchased the recording studio in May 1981, before the album was completed. He later re-named the studio Lion Share Studios.^[1]

Overview

Four singles were released from this Share Your Love. "I Don't Need You" charted at number 1 on the US and Canadian country charts as well as reaching the top of the US Adult Contemporary charts, and number 3 on the US Hot 100. The title cut "Share Your Love With Me" reached number 14 on the Hot 100 and 5 in the US Country charts, though it did reach number 2 in Canada and led the US Adult Contemporary charts. Rogers then took a break to release a single from his first Christmas album. "Blaze of Glory", which featured Kin Vassy on backing vocals, was also released as a single. Although it was a lesser hit than the first two singles, it still made the top ten. The final single, "Through The Years", returned Rogers to the very top by putting him at No. 1 the Adult Contemporary charts once again.

The album reached No. 1 on the country charts and No. 6 on the pop charts, reaching platinum and double-platinum status in the US and Canada, respectively.

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.^[2]

Musicians

• Kenny Rogers – lead vocals, rhythm track arrangements (4)
• Reginald "Sonny" Burke – keyboards
• Barnaby Finch – keyboards
• Glen Hardin – keyboards
• John Hobbs – keyboards
• Lincoln Mayorga – keyboards (5)
• Sylvester Rivers – keyboards
• James Burton – guitars
• Rickey Harper – guitars
• Paul Jackson Jr. – guitars
• Darrell Jones – guitars
• Thomas McClary – guitars
• Ray Parker Jr. – guitars
• Fred Tackett – guitars
• Billy Joe Walker Jr. – guitars
• Dennis Belfield – bass (2)
• Joe Chemay – bass (1, 3, 7)
• Nathan East – bass (5)
• Abraham Laboriel – bass (6, 8, 9)
• Jerry Scheff – bass (10)
• Freddie Washington – bass (4)
• Ed Greene – drums
• Paul Leim – drums
• Rick Shlosser – drums (5)
• Eddie "Bongo" Brown – percussion
• Ollie E. Brown – percussion
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion (10)
• David Boruff – saxophone solo (2)
• Gary Herbig – saxophone solo (6)
• Gene Page – string, horn and rhythm arrangements
• Edgar Struble – string arrangements (2, 4)
• Harry Bluestone – concertmaster

Backing vocalists

• Track 1: Kin Vassy, Terry Williams, Gene Marford
• Track 2: Terry Williams, Kin Vassy, Cindy Fee, Juanice Charmain
• Track 3: Deborah Thomas, Kin Vassy, Terry Williams, Cindy Fee
• Track 4: Kin Vassy, Terry Williams, Cindy Fee
• Track 5: none
• Track 6: Gladys Knight & the Pips (Gladys Knight, William Guest, Merald "Bubba" Knight, Edward Patten), Lionel Richie
• Track 7: Lionel Richie, Terry Williams, Cindy Fee
• Track 8: Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson
• Track 9: Kin Vassy, Terry Williams, Deborah Thomas, Brooks Hunnicut
• Track 10: Lionel Richie, Terry Williams, Dorothy Sugarloaf

Technical

• Reginald Dozier – recording and mixing engineer
• Larry Ferguson – second engineer
• Bernie Grundman – mastering at Capitol Studios (Hollywood, CA).
• Michael Mancini – second engineer
• Brenda Harvey-Richie – assistant production
• Lionel Richie – producer
• Kenny Rogers – mixing engineer

Additional credits

• Bill Burks – art direction, design
• Roy R. Guzman – design
• Ken Kragen – management
• Gary Register – photography

Charts

Chart (1981-82)	Peak position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)^[3]	44
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)^[4]	21

External links

• [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=kenny rogers|chart=all}} "Share Your Love" album page at Billboard]

Notes and References

1. Lion Share Recording Studios: What the Proceeds from a Couple of Decades of Hits can Buy!. Recording Engineer/Producer. April 1982. 29 February 2024.
2. Share Your Love . Kenny Rogers . 1981 . LP liner . Liberty Records . 134416.
3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. St. Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. Illustrated. 256. 0-646-11917-6.
4. Book: Pennanen, Timo. Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972. 1st. Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. Helsinki. 2006. 978-951-1-21053-5. fi.