It started with a dinner invitation and an unseen lyric in a nondescript envelope. Fifteen minutes later, Steve Dorff and Marty Panzer had written a career-defining love song for Kenny Rogers. However ...

“He [Rogers] was there in the studio and I went up to him and said, ‘I’m a songwriter and I’d love to play you a song I wrote for you,” recalled Marx of his first meeting with Rogers. “And he should ...