Ronnie Milsap "40 Number 1 Hits" (Virgin, 2000) Wish the liner notes were more specific about when these sessions took place. Though poorly engineered, these tracks are kind of fun, certainly not as stuffy as his later work, but also not as resonant.
Here he's in sort of a Charlie Rich kinda mode, singing whiteboy country-soul with a nod or two towards Ray Charles. Rough-edged, antediluvian country-soul and straight-up R&B recordings made by one of the future kings of overwrought countrypolitan pop. Ronnie Milsap "The Crazy Cajun Recordings" (Edsel, 1998) Although his music drifted pretty far away from country twang, it's hard not to enjoy classics like "Smoky Mountain Rain" and even "No Getting Over Me," his big pop hit from 1983. Born nearly blind from birth, Milsap struggled for years before breaking into the Top Forty, but when success came, it snowballed for over a decade, with Milsap eventually cracking into the Pop charts in the early '80s. Ronnie Milsap was one of the big countrypolitan/country crossover stars of the 1970s and '80s. That same year, he enjoyed brief pop success with "Loving You Is a Natural Thing." He released his debut album, Ronnie Milsap, in 1971.Ronnie Milsap country music discography (DJ Joe Sixpack's Guide To Hick Music) During this time, he worked on numerous projects including two songs with Elvis Presley: "Don't Cry Daddy" in 1969 and "Kentucky Rain" in 1970. Milsap had a R&B hit with another Ashford & Simpsion song, "Never Had It So Good." Around this same time, Milsap met and fell in love with Joyce, and the two were married in 1965.Ī few years later, after moving to Memphis, Tennessee, he frequently worked for Chips Moman. A few months later, however, it became a million-selling single for Ray Charles. This was followed up by several Ashford & Simpson compositions, including "Let’s Go Get Stoned," which unfortunately for Milsap, was relegated to a B-side. He released his first single, "Total Disaster," in 1963.
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In the early 1960s, he got his first professional gig as a member of J.
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Milsap was awarded a full college scholarship and attended college briefly in Atlanta, Georgia, until he decided to become a full-time musician.
Within the next few years, he also developed an affection for rock and roll and formed a rock band called The Apparitions. When he was seven, his instructors began to notice his musical talents shortly afterward, he began studying classical music formally. He has often said that he was inspired by Ray Charles, Little Richard, and Patsy Cline. Throughout it all, he took refuge in music-particularly the late-night broadcasts of country music, gospel, and rhythm and blues. His "good eye" (along with the other) were removed due to a developing blood clot. Throughout his childhood, he lost his remaining vision. He was offered scholarship for law school, but wanted to pursue music. At age six, he was sent to the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he received a quality education and skills that would be beneficial to him for the rest of his life. Soon after his first birthday, he was cast off and given to his grandmother to raise (it is said that his mother considered his blindness a punishment from God due to his wickedness). Milsap was born in Robbinsville, North Carolina with a congenital defect, leaving him almost completely blind.
Reading about his early career via Wikipedia makes for classic 'beats the odds'/journeyman stuff:
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