Try guessing who was voted Favorite Singer of All-Time back in 1986 by the joint readers of USA Today and People magazine?

It wasn’t Frank Sinatra, nor was it Michael Jackson, both of whom were alive and well then.

It was Kenny Rogers, the bearded country superstar who will be coming to Springfield’s Kuss Auditorium on Dec. 14.

Announced Thursday night by the Clark State Performing Arts Center, the 8 p.m. show will combine Rogers’ many hits with Christmas classics.

“It’s Kenny Rogers. It’s Christmas. How can you go wrong?” said Stuart Secttor, the center’s executive director. “This is a legend.”

A local high school choir also will perform with Rogers — the eighth best-selling male artist of all time — but details are still being worked out, Secttor said.

Tickets will be priced from $45 to $75 for adults, with discounts for seniors and students. They’ll go on sale in person at the performing arts center at 1o a.m. Oct. 2, then online at pac.clarkstate.edu at noon that day.

That’s also the day Rogers’ autobiography, “Luck or Something Like It,” comes out. It will be for sale in the Kuss lobby the day tickets go on sale.

Now 74, Rogers still isn’t in the Country Music Hall of Fame, but he’s had a hit single in every one of the past six decades. His list of hits includes “The Gambler,” “Lady” and a top-selling 1983 duet with Dolly Parton, “Islands in the Stream.”

In 2000, a 61-year-old Rogers became the oldest artist in chart history to hit No. 1, with the song “Buy Me a Rose.”

“He’s more than just a great singer,” Secttor said. “He’s a great performer.”

Rogers came to mega-fame in the 1960s, fronting the rock band The First Edition, which scored big with such hits as “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In).”