Of all the 70 and 80’s veterans who saw an end to their hit making days in the early 90’s, Ronnie seems to be the one who hung in there the longest, as I remember his single, “All Is Fair In Love And War,” still getting some pretty decent airplay around mid 1992.Кенни Роджерс (Kenny Rogers, род. Interestingly, he went back to a more contemporary sound with the follow up album in 1991, and still had a good run of hits from it despite traditional country being the biggest trend. While I do like some of the traditional flavored songs he did for this album, most of my favorite Milsap songs are from his commercial prime in the late 70’s and 80’s when a lot of his music had a pop/r&b influence.
Another station was also still playing “Don’t You Ever Get Tired Of Hurting Me” as late as the Fall of 1998. 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.
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.
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