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    • Oct 18, 1979
    Final overdubs are held for the Kenny Rogers album "Gideon," completing all the tracking for the project in just four days
    Nov 3, 1979
    Kenny Rogers' "You Decorated My Life" hits #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
    Nov 4, 1979
    Kenny Rogers visits the Country Palace Bar, the "bar in Toledo" in which a real-life conversation by an anonymous couple inspired Hal Bynum to write "Lucille"
    Nov 10, 1979
    Kenny Rogers launches a 25-week reign at the top of the Billboard country albums chart with "Kenny"
    Nov 12, 1979
    Kenny Rogers begins filming an adaptation of "The Gambler" as a TV movie for CBS
    Nov 28, 1979
    CBS-TV airs "Kenny Rogers And The American Cowboy," a special that also features Charlie Daniels and Mac Davis
    Dec 10, 1979
    Four years after he was saddled with $65,000 in debt, Kenny Rogers owns the cover of People magazine with wife Marianne, having grossed $13 million the previous year
    Dec 24, 1979
    NBC-TV presents "A Christmas Special... With Love, Mac Davis," featuring Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton and Robert Urich
    Jan 3, 1980
    Kenny Rogers is the leading country artist, named a finalist four times, as the American Music Awards nominations are announced. Waylon Jennings appears in three spots on the list; Crystal Gayle and Barbara Mandrell are each tabbed twice
    Jan 4, 1980
    Roy Clark, Kenny Rogers and Crystal Gayle appear on the Dick Clark-hosted NBC special "The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's" with Olivia Newton-John, Carly Simon, Billy Joel, Steve Martin, Evel Knievel and Shirley MacLaine
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