Which Kenny Rogers album includes the signature song “The Gambler”?

Kenny Rogers’s album containing the signature song “The Gambler” is titled The Gambler.

United Artists Records released The Gambler in 1978. The title track, written by Don Schlitz, became one of Rogers’s defining recordings and helped establish his crossover popularity. Its memorable advice about knowing when to hold, fold, walk away, and run became part of popular culture.

The album also included “She Believes in Me,” “I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again,” and “The King of Oak Street.” It followed Rogers’s successful 1977 album Daytime Friends and helped make him one of the most commercially prominent country artists of the late 1970s.

The song and album share the same title, which makes this a straightforward album-identification question. “Kenny” and “Gideon” are other Rogers albums, but neither is the album built around “The Gambler.”