Country Music History Kenny Rogers Signed Harrah’s Casino Contract Advance Receipt 1975

Kenny Rogers

Manuscripts & Autographs

Rogers, Kenny. Signed Harrah’s casino contract advance receipt dated 1975, documenting the performance-payment system supporting Rogers during his transition from the First Edition to a solo country career. The $500 advance records the financial arrangements through which casinos secured entertainers and compensated them against contractual obligations, providing primary-source evidence for the study of live entertainment booking, casino performance culture, and the business administration of popular musicians. The First Edition had recently dissolved, and Rogers’s subsequent agreement with United Artists preceded the commercial breakthrough of “Lucille” in 1977 and “The Gambler” in 1978, giving this modest payment record particular relevance to a transitional period in his career.

Rogers, Kenny. Document signed. November 27, 1975. 1 page. Approximately 4 x 6 inches. Receipt recording a $500 advance against a contract from Harrah’s casino, signed “Kenny Rogers” in black ink. The document illustrates how a casino engagement operated in practice through an advance payment credited toward a performer’s larger contractual compensation. Its date places Rogers within the working circuit of live engagements shortly after his association with the First Edition and before the country-pop recordings that established his solo reputation.

Clean and well preserved, near fine. A compact signed financial record documenting the contractual infrastructure behind Kenny Rogers’s live performance career at a consequential point in his professional development.

Item #6687

Price: $75.00