However, one of my stations was still playing “A Woman In Love” from this album quite a lot in early 1991, and that’s actually my favorite single off this album. As usual, his vocal performance is superb. I have to agree that it’s not one of Ronnie’s most memorable songs, but it’s still pretty good. This is actually one I don’t recall hearing during it’s original chart run or as a recurrent in the early 90’s. Previous: Alan Jackson, “Here in the Real World” “Stranger Things Have Happened” gets a B.
He received a well-earned induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014. Milsap still remained a heavy presence on the road, and continued to release new music. A label switch to Liberty/Capitol produced a fresh energy to his sound, but couldn’t get him beyond the top thirty on the singles chart. A single from his third hits collection in 1992 broke his hit streak, peaking outside the top forty. Three singles from it made the Billboard top ten, with another just missing it, stopping at No. Milsap was able to keep the hits going with one more studio album, Back to the Grindstone, which released in 1991. That was good enough for early 1990, but it wouldn’t get the job done for much longer. The writers can’t seem to decide on the metaphor they want to run with, so it devolves into a generic heartache ballad that goes back over ground he’d already covered before and better. His blue-eyed soulful singing shines brightly on the chorus, where he leans into that pleading wail that had served him so well on so many hits before.īut it all has a paint-by-numbers feel, perhaps because the lyric simply isn’t strong enough to carry it across the finish line. “Stranger Things Have Happened” has that classic Milsap sound, with a piano-heavy sixties feel.
With another new album still a year away, RCA sent the title track to radio. In between those two chart-toppers, “Houston Solution” had made it to the top five. Released in 1989, two of the album’s first three singles – “Don’t You Ever Get Tired (of Hurting Me)” and “A Woman in Love” – had topped the charts, the latter being his final release to do so on the Billboard survey. Thus was the case with Stranger Things Have Happened. Milsap’s album output had slowed from releasing new albums annually to releasing them every other year, but he remained a consistent presence because those later albums produced multiple hit singles. He was the first artist to win the CMA Award for Album of the Year three times, taking it home as recently as 1986 for his Lost in the Fifties Tonight LP, which beat out a crowded field of new traditionalists.Īnd as the decade turned, radio was still very much on board. 1 Singles” record, a title that Twitty ultimately won and held on to until he was eclipsed by George Strait many years later. He’d spent the better part of two decades dueling with Charley Pride and Conway Twitty for the “Most No. 1972 found him working regularly at Roger Miller's King of the Road Club in Nashville, Tennessee and he signed with RCA Records in 1973.Written by Roger Murrah and Keith StegallĪnother huge seventies and eighties country star tops the charts for the last time.īy the time the nineties rolled around, Ronnie Milsap was already one of the most successful country artists in history. A few months later it would become a million-selling single for the more popular blind pianist, Ray Charles. This was followed by several Ashford And Simpson, compositions, including the memorable "Let's Go Get Stoned", which, unfortunately for Milsap, was relegated to a b-side. He released his first single, Total Disaster, in 1963 at the age of twenty. The school stressed classical music training but he preferred country, gospel and rhythm-and-blues. Milsap showed musical aptitude at an early age.
He was abandoned by his mother as an infant and raised by his grandparents until the age of five, when he was sent to the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, North Carolina. Milsap was born in Robbinsville, North Carolina with a congenital disorder that left him almost completely blind. He became country music's first well-known blind singer, and one of the most successful and versatile country "crossover" singers of his time, appealing to both country and pop music music markets with successful songs that incorporated pop, R&B, and rock and roll elements. He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. Ronnie Lee Milsap (born January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist.
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