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 Released June 06, 2000
Those of you who pay attention to record labels are liable to assume that this two-disc compilation consists of re-recordings of Ronnie Milsap's hits. After all, he spent his hitmaking years on RCA Victor, which is owned by BMG, while Virgin Records, which released this set, is owned by EMI, a competing major label. While the majors occasionally license a track or two to their rivals, they never loan out the bulk of an album, and Milsap, like many music veterans, has re-recorded his material before. Surprisingly, however, 40 #1 Hits is an exception to these suppositions; it does contain Milsap's original RCA Victor recordings, digitally remastered. Meanwhile, those of you who are fans of statistics and who consult only the charts in the best-known music trade magazine (or who have perused ic Guide's biography of Milsap) may suppose that the artist hasn't had 40 country chart-toppers, only 35. But there is more than one music trade magazine and more than one country singles chart, and a record that stopped short of the summit on one may have made it on another. For the sake of interest, the number one songs according to other charts found here are "Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry," "Just in Case," "Back on My Mind," "Stranger Things Have Happened," and "Since I Don't Have You," all of which made the Top Ten in that well-known magazine's rankings. Finally, those of you who are good at addition will note that there are actually 43 tracks on 40 #1 Hits. "Stranger in My House," which is one of those extra recordings, didn't get to number one by anybody's estimation, but it did hit the country Top Five and the pop Top 40, and it won the Best New Country Song Grammy Award for 1983. The other two are newly recorded songs, "Livin' on Love" and "Time, Love and Money," both of which rock a little harder than Milsap usually does. All told, Ronnie Milsap's 40 #1 Hits is a compilation that exceeds expectations and stands as the definitive collection of the most popular work by one of the most successful country artists of the 1970s and '80s. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
TRACKS 1. Pure Love
2. Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends
3. (I'd Be) A Legend in My Time
4. Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry
5. Daydreams About Night Things
6. Just in Case
7. What Goes on When the Sun Goes Down
8. I'm a Stand by My Woman Man
9. Let My Love Be Your Pillow
10. It Was Almost Like a Song
11. What a Difference You've Made in My Life
12. Only One Love in My Life
13. Let's Take the Long Way Around the World
14. Back on My Mind Again
15. Nobody Likes Sad Songs
16. Why Don't You Spend the Night
17. My Heart
18. Cowboys and Clowns
19. Smoky Mountain Rain
20. Am I Losing You
21. (There's) No Gettin' Over Me
22. I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World
23. Any Day Now
DISC 2 24. He Got You
25. Inside
26. Stranger in My House
27. Don't You Know How Much I Love You
28. Show Her
29. Still Losing You
30. She Keeps the Home Fires Burning
31. Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)
32. Happy, Happy Birthday Baby
33. In Love
34. How Do I Turn You On
35. Snap Your Fingers
36. Make No Mistake, She's Mine
37. Where Do the Nights Go
38. Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)
39. A Woman in Love
40. Stranger Things Have Happened
41. Since I Don't Have You
42. Livin' on Love
43. Time, Love & Money
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