Ronnie Milsap (album)

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Ronnie Milsap
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ReleasedAugust 1971
StudioAmerican Sound Studio, Memphis; Muscle Shoals Sound Studios; Quadrafonic Sound Studios, Nashville; Ardent Studios, Memphis; Record Plant, Los Angeles; Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco
Genre Country
Length33:51
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer Dan Penn
Ronnie Milsap chronology
Ronnie Milsap
(1971)
Where My Heart Is
(1973)
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Ronnie Milsap is the first studio album from country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in 1971 on Warner Bros. Records.

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Among the tracks on the album is "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends", which he re-recorded in 1974 after he signed a contract with RCA Nashville and established himself as a hitmaker in country music. The remake went on to be a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

Track listing

  1. "Dedicate the Blues to Me" (Huey P. Meaux) – 3:20
  2. "Sunday Rain" (Mark James) – 3:09
  3. "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" (Kris Kristofferson) – 3:00
  4. "Sweet Little Rock & Roller" (Chuck Berry) – 3:17
  5. "Blue Skies of Montana" (Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn) – 5:29
  6. "Sanctified" (Jim Dickinson, Bob McDill) – 3:33
  7. "Keep on Smiling (1980)" (Karen Oldham, Spooner Oldham) – 3:21
  8. "The Cat Was a Junkie" (Bobby Weinstein, Jon Stroll)
  9. "Crying" (Joe Melson, Roy Orbison) – 2:30
  10. "Not for the Love of a Woman" (Nat Foster) – 3:08
  11. "Why" (Swain Schaefer) – 3:04

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