"The next song on the tape for me to sing - I already had the track done - was a song called, Every Time Two Fools Collide.  When I went into the studio to start singing it, Larry Butler, our producer, said, 'would you hold it a minute Dottie?'  Kenny is coming in and we're going to set up another mic and he's going to sing it with you.'  We sang it three times and we really felt the magic.  It came so easy."

The duo's producer, Larry Butler, remembers the chemistry in the studio.  "Kenny was an incredible singer, and Dottie was an incredible singer," observes Butler. "But you put the two of them out in the studio face to face on the same mike, or two mikes facing each other, and they’d perform for each other. And they both sang better than they’ve ever done before.  Dottie was a great singer, but when she sang with Kenny Rogers standing there looking at her, she reached down and got it all."

Dottie decided not to put Fools on her album, but instead save it for a whole duet album with Kenny.  The album was also titled Every Time Two Fools Collide, with Fools being the first single.  It debuted on Billboard's Country chart February 18, 1978, and nine weeks later hit the top spot, where it stayed for two weeks.  The album debuted on April 15th and hit #1 two weeks later, where it stayed for two weeks.  It went on to sell 500,000+ copies, earning a gold status from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

The next release was the racy (for that time) Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight.  That single was released September 2, 1978, and it peaked at #2 later that year.

The success of the two singles and the album garnered the duo nominations for best Country Duo in 1978 from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (The Grammy© Awards) and the Academy of Country Music (ACM), as well as winning the duo award from the Country Music Association (CMA).  The album was nominated for Album of the Year from the Academy of Country Music (ACM).

Dottie and Kenny hit the road in support of their new music, playing to sell out crowds across the country.  They were packing them in every night.  Not in small arenas, but huge super and metro domes with capacities from 80 - 100,000 people.  "It was perfect because women could come and see me and men could come and see Dottie," Kenny remembers.  "We would get both people and we drew huge crowds."

Because of the success they had with Fools, they went back into the studio in late 1978 to record Classics; an album of

That would be it for the albums, but Dottie called on her friend once again in 1981 for a song from her Wild West album, What Are We Doing In Love. 

Dottie was a little apprehensive about recording this one.  "When we started to do this song and we saw the title, What Are We Doing In Love, we immediately thought, 'Well, we've been kidded up 'til now.  Now what's going to happen!'  People are going to really be asking questions because they constantly think, because we sing love songs together, that we definitely got a thing going.  I can say we've got a good thing going.  We've had some hit records together - that's a good thing going!"  Good thing is right.  What Are We Doing In Love was released April 4, 1981, and ten weeks later they had their third #1 single.

That was the last official pairing of the two.  In 1984, Liberty released a Kenny Rogers Duets album, and the single, Together Again, was released.  But this was the same recording that was on their Classics album.

Dottie and Kenny will always be remembered as one of the best duos in country music history.  Recently, CMT featured Kenny and Dottie in their 100 Greatest Duets special.  They chose two songs, What Are We Doing In Love at #57 and again at #8 with Every Time Two Fools Collide.