Dolly & Kenny: The Greatest Friendship Country Music Ever Produced

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Dolly & Kenny: The Greatest Friendship Country Music Ever Produced

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The collaboration that most people know — "Islands in the Stream" (1983) — was almost an accident. Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees had written the song originally for a male solo act. When it wasn't working in the studio, someone suggested bringing in Dolly. She arrived, they recorded it in one day, and it became the best-selling country single of the entire decade.

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But the song was almost secondary to what happened between the two of them in that studio — a chemistry, a warmth, a genuine delight in each other's company that no producer could have engineered.

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