CMA’s Male Vocalist of the Year in 1974, 1976, and 1977, he was the organization’s 1977 Entertainer of the Year.
RONNIE MILSAP SONGS 1992 CRACKED
Hits continued in 1976 (when Milsap also joined the Grand Ole Opry) with “What Goes on When the Sun Goes Down” and the Grammy-winning “(I’m a) Stand by My Woman Man.” The singer cracked the pop charts in 1977–78 with “It Was Almost Like a Song” and other #1 hits. He won a 1974 Grammy for his chart-topping rendition of Kris Kristofferson’s “Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends.” Despite Milsap’s varied output, the #1 hits “Pure Love” (1974) and “Daydreams About Night Things” (1975) positioned him as a purveyor of positive, uptempo love songs. Assisted by publisher-producer Tom Collins, Milsap started charting with country fare including “I Hate You” and “That Girl Who Waits on Tables” (1973). Milsap moved to Nashville in 1972, and performed at an industry hangout, the King of the Road in 1973, he began a long association with RCA Records. J.’s.” Milsap played piano and sang on Elvis Presley’s “Kentucky Rain” (1970) and recorded briefly for Moman’s Chips label he then cut LPs for Warner Bros. He chose music over law school, and he was recording R&B-tinged pop for New York’s famed Scepter label by 1965 that year he enjoyed a minor hit with “Never Had It So Good.” A 1968 move to Memphis led him to Chips Moman’s hot American Studio and a regular gig at “the jumping nightclub-T. Graduating in 1962, Milsap pursued music at Young Harris Junior College (he finished in 1964), and he released his debut single, “Total Disaster,” in 1963 on Atlanta’s Princess Records.
Despite harsh treatment, he blossomed musically, learning the school’s classical techniques while absorbing pop styles available on radio. At age six, having heard gospel music at church and country music via radio, he entered the State School for the Blind in Raleigh, North Carolina. According to his 1990 autobiography, It Was Almost Like a Song, his mother regarded his blindness as divine punishment and asked his father to take Ronnie away. Born blind into an Appalachian family named Millsaps, he went to live with grandparents at age one.
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