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Released August 01, 2006

To get an idea of exactly how many Ronnie Milsap collections are on the market, just turn to the back page of the booklet for RCA/Legacy's 2006 double-disc set The Essential Ronnie Milsap, where it lists other Ronnie albums you might also enjoy. There are ten listed, all but one of them a compilation (that would be his very, very good 2006 comeback, My Life). Which begs the natural question, is The Essential Ronnie Milsap needed? Especially since there is already another compilation called The Essential Ronnie Milsap (dating from 1995), and there already was an excellent double-disc set called 40 #1 Hits released six years earlier? The answer is, yes it is, particularly since 40 #1 Hits has fallen out of print. Of course, it also helps that Essential is an expertly chosen and sequenced collection of Milsap's best work, from 1973's "(All Together Now) Let's Fall Apart" and running all the way to 1989's "A Woman in Love." Most of this material was on 40 #1 Hits, so if you already own that, there's not much need for this, but this has a slight edge over the previous comp because it has a greater concentration of his prime material and is very listenable; its non-chronological sequencing works for it, since it emphasizes the consistently high quality of his hits singles. So, even if there is a surplus of Milsap collections out on the market, this superb set indeed proves that there's always room for another good one. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

TRACKS

1. Daydreams About Night Things
2. Smokey Mountain Rain
3. Pure Love
4. That Girl Who Waits on Tables
5. It Was Almost Like a Song
6. (All Together Now) Let's Fall Apart
7. What Goes on When the Sun Goes Down
8. Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)
9. (I'm A) Stand by My Woman Man
10. I Hate You
11. Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends
12. (There's) No Gettin' Over Me
13. (I'd Be) A Legend in My Time
14. Only One Love in My Life
15. My Heart
16. Stranger Things Have Happened
17. Am I Losing You
18. A Woman in Love
19. Just in Case
20. Back on My Mind Again
21. Let My Love Be Your Pillow [Live]

DISC 2

22. I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World
23. Any Day Now
24. Stranger in My House
25. What a Difference You've Made in My Life
26. Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)
27. Nobody Likes Sad Songs
28. Why Don't You Spend the Night
29. Let's Take the Long Way Around the World
30. Happy, Happy Birthday Baby
31. She Keeps the Home Fires Burning
32. Inside
33. Where Do the Nights Go
34. In Love
35. Cowboys and Clowns [From "Bronco Billy"]
36. Make No Mistake, She's Mine
37. How Do I Turn You On
38. Still Losing You
39. Show Her
40. He Got You

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