Stranger Things Have Happened (Ronnie Milsap album)

Stranger Things Have Happened
Stranger Things Have Happened
Studio album by Ronnie Milsap
Released	February 28, 1989
Recorded	1988
Studio	GroundStar Laboratories (Nashville, Tennessee);
Genre	Country
Length	35:00
Label	RCA Records
Producer	Rob Galbraith; Ronnie Milsap; Tom Collins ;
Ronnie Milsap chronology

Last updated September 03, 2025

Stranger Things Have Happened is the nineteenth studio album by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap, released in 1989. The album produced four singles, two of which claimed the top spot on the Billboard country singles chart, including "A Woman in Love" and "Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)." The other singles, included "Houston Solution" and the title track, which peaked at #4 and #2 respectively. Of especial note is the song "You Snap Your Fingers (And I'm Back in Your Hands)", which made an appearance once before in his career on his album from 13 years prior.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Stranger Things Have Happened"	Roger Murrah, Keith Stegall	3:13
2.	"Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)"	Hank Cochran	3:05
3.	"A Woman in Love"	Doug Millett, Curtis Wright	3:15
4.	"You Snap Your Fingers (And I'm Back in Your Hands)"	John Schweers	3:27
5.	"Starting Today"	Murrah, Stegall	2:40
6.	"Roll the Dice"	Larry Boone, Paul Nelson	5:03
7.	"I Feel Like I'm Cheating on You"	Troy Seals, Eddie Setser	3:51
8.	"I Never Expected to See You"	Ronnie Milsap, Don Schlitz	3:19
9.	"Houston Solution"	Paul Overstreet, Schlitz	3:28
10.	"Southern Roots"	Rob Galbraith, Naomi Martin, Archie Jordan	3:39

Personnel

Ronnie Milsap – lead vocals, acoustic piano, electric piano
Hargus "Pig" Robbins – acoustic piano, electric piano
Jay Spell – acoustic piano, electric piano
Mitch Humphries – synthesizers
Shane Keister – synthesizers
Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
Don Potter – acoustic guitar
Billy Joe Walker Jr. – acoustic guitar
Bruce Dees – electric guitar, backing vocals
Steve Gibson – electric guitar
Reggie Young – electric guitar
Paul Franklin – pedabro
Bruce E. Brooks – steel guitar
Weldon Myrick – steel guitar
Warren Gowers – bass
Mike Leech – bass
Bob Wray – bass
Eddie Bayers – drums
Larrie Londin – drums
Mark O'Connor – fiddle
Carol Chase – backing vocals
Cindy Richardson-Walker – backing vocals
Lisa Silver – backing vocals
Dennis Wilson – backing vocals

Production

Joe Galante – A&R direction
Tom Collins – producer
Rob Galbraith – producer
Ronnie Milsap – producer
Ben Harris – engineer, track recording, overdub recording, mixing
Kyle Lehning – mixing
Randy Gardner – assistant engineer, mix assistant
Keith Odle – assistant engineer, mix assistant
Milan Bogdan – digital editing
Glenn Meadows – mastering
Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) – editing and mastering location
Linda Bres – session coordinator
Mary Hamilton – art direction, design
Jim "Señor" McGuire – photography
Joyce Milsap – hair, make-up
Bev Riedel-Patterson – hair, make-up

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1989)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	20
Canadian RPM Country Albums	20

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
Year	Single	US Country	CAN Country
1989	"Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)"	1	*
	"Houston Solution"	4	12
	"A Woman in Love"	1	1
1990	"Stranger Things Have Happened"	2	1

References

Stranger Things Have Happened, Allmusic.
Ronnie Milsap – Stranger Things Have Happened RCA Tracklist, letssingit.com.

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Compilation albums	Greatest Hits Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 40 #1 Hits 16 Biggest Hits
#1 singles	"Pure Love" "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" "(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time" "Daydreams About Night Things" "What Goes On When the Sun Goes Down" "(I'm A) Stand by My Woman Man" "Let My Love Be Your Pillow" "It Was Almost Like a Song" "What a Difference You've Made in My Life" "Only One Love in My Life" "Let's Take the Long Way Around the World" "Back on My Mind Again" "Nobody Likes Sad Songs" "Why Don't You Spend the Night" "My Heart" "Cowboys and Clowns" "Smoky Mountain Rain" "Am I Losing You" "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me" "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World" "Any Day Now" "He Got You" "Inside" "Stranger in My House" "Don't You Know How Much I Love You" "Show Her" "Still Losing You" "She Keeps the Home Fires Burning" "Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)" "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby" "In Love" "How Do I Turn You On" "Snap Your Fingers" "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" (with Kenny Rogers) "Where Do the Nights Go" "Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)" "A Woman in Love" "Stranger Things Have Happened"
Other songs	"Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry" "Just in Case" "In No Time at All" "Prisoner of the Highway" "Old Folks" (with Mike Reid) "Button Off My Shirt" "Houston Solution" "Are You Lovin' Me Like I'm Lovin' You" "Since I Don't Have You" "Turn That Radio On" "All Is Fair in Love and War" "True Believer"
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