![]() We had a couple of big artists pass on it before Kenny got ahold of it. We go to the piano. I wrote it in 15 minutes. So I ripped it out of his hands, I said, "Great." As he's reading me the chorus, I'm hearing the tune. He's like acting it out like a Shakespearean actor. I yelled to my wife at the time, Nancy, "How long till dinner?" And she said, "Oh, about 15 minutes." I said, "Oh cool, let me see it." And he pulls this thing out.Īs Marty always does, he reads me the lyric before he gives it to me. I said, "What's in the envelope?" He says, "A new lyric I wanted to show you." He came over and had a little brown envelope. ![]() We invited him over for dinner one night. ![]() ![]() But (with) "Through the Years" - true story - Marty and I had just met and we had written maybe two songs together. Because all these songs have great stories, and the fine line between incredible success and dismal failure, which I've experienced a lot of. Steve Dorff: I remember it like it was yesterday. ![]() Bart Herbison: Through the years, we've all laughed and cried and enjoyed the soundtrack to our lives that you wrote. But that's the story behind the song this week for The Tennessean, the great Kenny Rogers hit. ![]()
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