During that time, he had a number of pop crossover hits, beginning with 1977's "It Was Almost like a Song." Between 19, Milsap had ten more consecutive number one hits including the crossover smashes "Smoky Mountain Rain," "No Gettin' Over Me" and "Any Day Now." Milsap had yet another string of uninterrupted number one hits between 19, racking up eight consecutive chart toppers. In turn, that string of hits begat a remarkable run where Milsap didn't leave the Top Ten for 15 straight years.
Milsap had a handful of Top Ten hits in 1975 and but in late 1976, he became a genuine star, with a string of six number one hits in a row. The following year, he had three number one hits in a row - "Pure Love," "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends," and "(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time," a cover of Don Gibson's classic. "I Hate You," his first single for RCA, reached the country Top Ten in the summer of 1973. Within a year, he signed to RCA Victor, where he would remain for the bulk of his career. Two years later, Milsap moved to Nashville in hopes of jump-starting his flagging career, and became a client of Charley Pride's manager Jack D. In 1970, he had a pop hit with "Loving You Is a Natural Thing." Following its success, in 1971 he released his eponymous debut. There he frequently worked for Chips Moman and can be heard playing keyboards on Elvis' "Kentucky Rain" and singing harmony on "Don't Cry Daddy." When not doing session work, Milsap and his backing group were the house band at TJ's Club. In 1965, Milsap started his own band and four years later, after having an R&B hit with "Never Had It So Good," moved to Memphis to become a session musician.
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His first professional gig was as a member of J.J. He briefly attended college in Atlanta where he studied pre-law though he was awarded a comprehensive scholarship, Milsap decided to become a full-time musician instead. Eventually, he became interested in rock & roll music and while still in school formed his first rock band, the Apparitions. A single year after he began learning the violin, Milsap was declared a virtuoso he also mastered piano, guitar and a variety of other stringed instruments, as well as various woodwinds. When he was seven, his instructors noticed his extraordinary musical talents and he began to study classical music formally. He was born blind from congenital glaucoma, and when he was five began attending the Governor Moorhead School for the Blind. Milsap was born in Robbinsville, North Carolina, and was raised by his father and grandparents following his parents' divorce. In any case, it's yet another first-rate Ronnie Milsap collection issued in the 2000s.Ronnie Milsap was one of the major figures of country music in the 1970s, developing a hybrid of country and pop which brought him a large audience. So, Ultimate Ronnie Milsap steps into the void and offers a generous selection of 22 tracks, nearly all of them his biggest hits from the '70s and '80s, opening with "Pure Love" and ending with "A Woman in Love." While RCA Country Legends has a purer country bent and illustrates his range better, this does provide all of Milsap's best-known material on one disc, which may make it a preferable introduction or summary for some audiences. The similarly titled Essential Ronnie Milsap by and large overlooked the '70s and the double-disc 40 #1 Hits is too lengthy for some listeners, while RCA Country Legends favors more idiosyncratic choices than actual hits. Since it's part of BMG's Ultimate answer to Sony Legacy's Essential series, it's a "yes" from a label's perspective, but it's also a "yes" for fans, because it's the best hits-oriented single-disc Milsap compilation yet assembled. There has been no shortage of Ronnie Milsap compilations over the years, and there have been two excellent collections released since the turn of the century alone, so it's easy to ask if RCA's 2004 Ultimate Ronnie Milsap is necessary or not.
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