Kenny Rogers, then bass player and singer for The First Edition, poses alongside an unidentified woman and young girl at The Bitter End nightclub on November 8, 1967, in New York City. Sporting a dark leather coat over a turtleneck, Kenny smiles as the woman rests a hand on the smiling young girl in a velvet dress with white lace trim. | Source: Getty Images
He spoke warmly of the man who had taken on that responsibility, expressing gratitude and affection for him. Still, loving the arrangement in principle could not give Kenny back the years he had missed.
A reported attempt to reconnect brought Carole and Janice to Hawaii for a vacation in 1979. By his 2012 interview, however, Kenny acknowledged that he and his daughter were not keeping in touch; her relationships with her siblings have remained private.
Another Wedding, Then a Son With His Name
Kenny married his second wife, Jean Rogers, in 1960. That relationship ended in 1963, with its breakdown attributed to mutual boredom, a rather ordinary explanation in a life that would become anything but ordinary.
