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Love or Something Like It is the fifth studio album by country music superstar Kenny Rogers, released in 1978. It was Rogers' fourth #1 hit album.

Love or Something Like It
Studio album by Kenny Rogers
Released	July 1978
Studio	Jack Clement Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
Length	33:46
Label	United Artists
Producer	Larry Butler
Kenny Rogers chronology
Every Time Two Fools Collide (with Dottie West) (1978) Love or Something Like It (1978) The Gambler (1978)
Singles from Love or Something Like It
"Love or Something Like It" Released: May 29, 1978

Overview

The album's title cut ("Love or Something Like It") also topped the charts. Though this was the only single to be issued from the album, another cut, "Momma's Waiting" (written by Rogers), was issued on the B-side of a 1978 major hit single, "The Gambler".[1] "Momma's Waiting" was originally recorded by Rogers and The First Edition in 1970.

The song "We Could Have Been The Closest of Friends" was also recorded by a number of other artists including B J Thomas, Sammy Davis Jr. and Tom Jones.

Biographer Chris Bolton notes in the sleevenotes of the 2009 reissue on the Edsel record label that "I Could Be So Good For You", was Kenny's attempt to "go Disco" and suggests the Disco influence may be the reason only one single was pulled from this album. Bolton goes on to call "Momma's Waiting" a close cousin of Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried" and states the album features songs that are much more pop slanted -on the whole- than any of Rogers' previous albums, but the album's best tracks still have an over-riding country sound.

Track listing

Personnel

• Kenny Rogers – guitar, lead vocals
• Billy Sanford, Fred Carter Jr., Jerry Shook, Jimmy Capps, Randy Dorman, Rick Harper – guitars
• Pete Drake – steel guitar
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Steve Glassmeyer – keyboards
• Gene Golden, Edgar Struble – ARP synthesizer
• Edgar Struble – clavinet
• Joe Osborn – bass guitar
• Tommy Allsup – six-string bass guitar
• Bob Moore – upright bass
• Jerry Carrigan, Bobby Daniels – drums, percussion
• Bill Joor, Dennis Good, Philip Forrest, Roger Bissell – horns
• Byron Bach, Carl Gorodetzky, Gary Vanosdale, George Binkley, Lennie Haight, Marvin Chantry, Roy Christensen, Samuel Terranova, Sheldon Kurland, Wilfred Lehman – strings
• Bill Justis – string arrangements
• Bobby Daniels, Janie Fricke, Steve Glassmeyer, Gene Golden, The Jordanaires, Wendellyn Suits – background vocals

Production

• Producer – Larry Butler
• Engineer – Billy Sherrill
• Recorded at Jack Clement Recording Studios (Nashville, TN).
• Mastered by Bob Sowell at Master Control (Nashville, TN).
• Art Direction and Design – Bill Burks
• Photography – Gary Regester
• Management – Ken Kragen

Charts

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[6]	Gold	50,000^
United States (RIAA)[7]	Gold	500,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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