40 #1 Hits [Original recording remastered]

Ronnie Milsap | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 6, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B00004TIQ4

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Pure Love

2. Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends

3. (I'd Be) A Legend in My Time

4. Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry

5. Daydreams About Night Things

6. Just in Case

7. What Goes on When the Sun Goes Down

8. I'm a Stand by My Woman Man

9. Let My Love Be Your Pillow

10. It Was Almost Like a Song

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. He Got You

2. Inside

3. Stranger in My House

4. Don't You Know How Much I Love You

5. Show Her

6. Still Losing You

7. She Keeps the Home Fires Burning

8. Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)

9. Happy, Happy Birthday Baby

10. In Love

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars rattle them speakers with Ronnie Milsap..., March 11, 2004

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Jerry McDaniel - See all my reviews

This review is from: 40 #1 Hits (Audio CD)

i've always loved Milsap's sound. he was never, to me anyway, harsh or loud on the ears. he'd hold out notes or cry out lines like in the song "Since I Don't Have You" (track 18 on disc 2) but he's never been annoyingly loud. the first Milsap song i ever heard was "Smoky Mountain Rain". this CD contains 40 #1 hits, one Top-5 hit, plus two new songs, a total of 43 songs in all. the lone Top-5 that didn't make #1 was "Since I Don't Have You". the collection ends with the new songs: "Livin' On Love" {not the song by Alan Jackson!} and "Time, Love, and Money". the CD goes in chronological order. 35 of the 40 #1 hits were on Billboard, five others were on Radio and Records or Cashbox. Milsap is legendary for his soulful performances and listening to this CD, one can't help but be transported back in time. who can recall turning on country AND pop radio stations and hearing him belt out "Stranger in the House", "Any Day Now", "There's No Gettin' Over Me", etc. with the SAME arrangement! there was no such a thing as a "pop re-mix" like there is now if a country act wants pop airplay. His #1 duet with Kenny Rogers, "Make No Mistake She's Mine" is also on here. as the CD gets toward the end, you'll hear the late '80s Milsap...which sounded like the early '80s Milsap. some have argued that Milsap wasn't really country. i'll go as far as to say he wasn't any one single music genre. like Ray Stevens, Milsap can be country, pop, soul, R&B, or rock...a true eclectic talent and a must-have CD.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most from the best, August 25, 2001

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R. Bourbeau "(BOBBY BOURBEAU - MAUITUNES" (Maui, Hawaii, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 40 #1 Hits (Audio CD)

Ronnie Milsap has been around a long time, and it's remarkable just how many hits he's had over the years--both pop as well as country. 40 #1 Hits truly is the definitive collection from an artist blessed with an incredibly soulful voice and a great talent for piano performance. Although he may not have the gift of sight, he has an incredible amount of vision.

Beginning with his first country hit, 1974's "Pure Love," and ending with two new recordings ("Livin' on Love" and "Time, Love, and Money," both included specifically for this release), Milsap's compilation is a must-have for fans of this country mainstay of the late '70s who would go on to enjoy phenomenal pop-crossover success in the '80s. Early standouts include "I'd Be a Legend in My Time," "Daydreams About Night Things," and "I'm a Stand by My Woman Man" (a cute response to the late Tammy Wynette's somewhat notorious signature song [at least to Hillary Rodham Clinton, that is], "Stand by Your Man").

But then came 1977, and his piano-driven ballad "It Was Almost Like a Song" opened up the pop-radio audiences to the incredible power of Ronnie Milsap's voice. Next came "What a Difference You've Made in My Life," "Smoky Mountain Rain," "(There's) No Getting Over Me" (the biggest pop hit of his career), "Any Day Now," "He Got You," and the pop-rock flavor of "Stranger in My House"...each one a major hit on both the pop and country charts.

As the '80s began to wane, Milsap's success on the pop charts did also, as drum-machine-driven techno-pop reflected a change in the record-buying public and radio play, but country radio stayed loyal for a while longer. "Lost in the Fifties Tonight" became a smash in 1985, a tribute to the slow-dance days and featured parts of the oldies classic "In the Still of the Night." In 1987, Kenny Rogers recorded "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" as a duet with Milsap; the song, written by Rogers' previous duet partner Kim Carnes, had previously been a pop "trio" hit for Rogers, Carnes, and James Ingram. Later cuts included here feature Ronnie's take on the oft-covered '60s classic "Since I Don't Have You" and the beautiful, ethereal ballad "Where Do the Nights Go?," co-written by legendary Nashville composer and sometime-singer Mike Reid.

While Milsap has struggled in recent years to maintain a voice on country radio, along with dozens of other artists popular in the '70s and '80s, this compilation provides the listener with his best product over more than a quarter-century of hitmaking. Ronnie Milsap is not an old man, and I'd like to think that recording-label execs will once again offer him contracts for albums that will be both supported and promoted, at retail and at radio, and that both country- and pop-radio programming directors will not abandon an artist who has given America so many years of exciting, soaring, toe-tapping music.

He deserves better than he's gotten in recent years, and I'm confident that Ronnie Milsap's star will rise again. This compilation is a great way to discover--or revisit--a true "legend in [his] time."

Rating: ***** (out of 5) BOB BOURBEAU

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ronnie Milsap 40 #1 Hits, June 11, 2000

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L. V. Hamilton (Wellington, Florida (USA)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 40 #1 Hits (Audio CD)

This a "must have" 2 CD set for any hardcore Ronnie Milsap fan! Starting with "Pure Love" and ending with "Time, Love & Money" (new track), you'll experience the absolute best of my personal "main man" of country ballards. These beautifully digitally remastered original recordings (by Virgin) are the best I have come across in a long time! This more than makes up for a very poorly mastered Greatest Hits CD that I recently purchased.