Talk:Kenny Rogers and The First Edition

message: I added the NPOV tag. There are many statements in this article that seem to breach the NPOV policy. Such as "While their music was excellent, their second hit was nothing like their first," "Kenny's soft voice on verses and rock shouting on the chorus made for a great record,"The music was terrific" just to name a few. References could also help. I don't know anything about this band, so I can't really help. - Akamad 10:45, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I would also like to add here that the editor has gone around wikipedia ruining articles about Kenny Rogers for many months now, adding own views in. This is not on. One example is his/her recent edit to the Ten Years Of Gold page which reads:
Ten Years Of Gold is a compilation album by Kenny Rogers issued in 1977. His fourth solo album, it is a collection of ten songs spanning the last decade. The album features solo reworkings of hits Kenny had with The First Edition that on the whole reveal his diminished vocal range. A disco "Just Dropped In" is probably the worst of the lot, but none come off particualrly well. Though Kenny had already scored three other solo hits, "Lucille", "Daytime Friends", "Love Lifted Me" and "While The Feeling's Good" are all that represent his recent work. The last track is the First Edition's original hit recording of "Today I Started Loving You Again", which Kenny still had the rights on. Oddly they are not credited on the album jacket, even individually. 
This is not the place to air your own views please. Personally, I prefer many of the solo versions of Ten Years Of Gold and think he is in better voice. If you want to air your views on Kenny's music, then write reviews on Amazon.com. DO NOT put them into articles on wikipedia! 205.188.116.199 12:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: comments

message: I placed these tags on the page because I feel this article needs a lot of work.  I'll try to find time this weekend to do some cleanup myself if I have time.  Although I think the recent overhaul was excessive, section by section sourced cleanup should be more effective than edit warring.
Mike Eder, your edit summary for blanking this talk page was, "What I wrote is a biography. The info on other versions are wrong and I can back any of the facts. This group is all but ignored and needs critical re-assesment"
*What I wrote is a biography. - Is this your essay?  Is this original research?
*I can back any of the facts. - Don't say it.  Do it.  Provide reliable sources please.
*This group...needs critical re-assesment - What this group needs is an overhauled page with more sources and less bias. 
I'm assuming that you were 76.209.63.222 before creating this account today.  If so, you may also want to read up on WP:OWN.  Edit summaries of "HEY LEAVE THIS ALONE I WORKED DARN HARD ON IT." and "This is the revision that should stay please leave it alone." aren't exactly appropriate. 
--Onorem 12:33, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced and Copyedit

message: The article states that Rogers was older than the rest of the band and grew a beard to look younger? Who the hell does that? I hate to generalize but beards tend to make people look older. I'm going to remove that statement; it lacks a source in any case. -R. fiend 13:56, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Beard?

message: Finished copy-editing. There are a couple issues - 
* "Though Campbell has often been credited for the distinctive guitar solo, it was actually Terry Williams who composed it." -- This needs checking whether its true or not.
Terry Williams performed and composed the solo. If Terry's word on that isn't enough, how do we "check it"?
* "Today Terry is mostly retired, on a huge farm in the Southeast" -- southeast of where? America, Britain, Mars?!
Terry's farm is north of Nashville, Tennessee. I have been there many times. Awdrey 2002
I think that's pretty much it. Someone familiar with the works of the band might want to give it a read-through though =) Pheebalicious (talk) 13:44, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Copy-edited

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 08:13, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
I bit the bullet and changed the redirect to a disambiguation page (the consensus above is more about the base name not being just about the band, but it's too specific to mean any book lowercase-"first edition").  
Actual usage shows that the whole title is (sometimes) used to mean the band, so a redirect to the book is inadequate; disambiguation is needed to provide context. Diego (talk) 15:00, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move? 

message: I'm very confused. I watched a YouTube video of Cherish by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2aQHwg33Uw), and at the very beginning Rogers says, "This was a really big hit song for us back in 1965. We called ourselves The Association then, though." But this article doesn't say a word about the song or about The First Edition formerly being called The Assocation. Cherish (The Association song) only says Kenny Rogers and The First Edition covered the song. The Association and Kenny Rogers say nothing about him ever being one of the many former members of The Association, or about The First Edition formerly being called The Association. Can anyone solve this mystery? 2605:A000:FFC0:D8:3059:8016:5847:3E43 (talk) 11:18, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kenny Rogers' claim that The First Edition was formerly The Association