That was good enough for early 1990, but it wouldn’t get the job done for much longer. The writers can’t seem to decide on the metaphor they want to run with, so it devolves into a generic heartache ballad that goes back over ground he’d already covered before and better. His blue-eyed soulful singing shines brightly on the chorus, where he leans into that pleading wail that had served him so well on so many hits before.īut it all has a paint-by-numbers feel, perhaps because the lyric simply isn’t strong enough to carry it across the finish line. “Stranger Things Have Happened” has that classic Milsap sound, with a piano-heavy sixties feel. With another new album still a year away, RCA sent the title track to radio. In between those two chart-toppers, “Houston Solution” had made it to the top five. Released in 1989, two of the album’s first three singles – “Don’t You Ever Get Tired (of Hurting Me)” and “A Woman in Love” – had topped the charts, the latter being his final release to do so on the Billboard survey. Thus was the case with Stranger Things Have Happened.
Milsap’s album output had slowed from releasing new albums annually to releasing them every other year, but he remained a consistent presence because those later albums produced multiple hit singles.
He was the first artist to win the CMA Award for Album of the Year three times, taking it home as recently as 1986 for his Lost in the Fifties Tonight LP, which beat out a crowded field of new traditionalists.Īnd as the decade turned, radio was still very much on board. 1 Singles” record, a title that Twitty ultimately won and held on to until he was eclipsed by George Strait many years later. He’d spent the better part of two decades dueling with Charley Pride and Conway Twitty for the “Most No. Written by Roger Murrah and Keith StegallĪnother huge seventies and eighties country star tops the charts for the last time.īy the time the nineties rolled around, Ronnie Milsap was already one of the most successful country artists in history.
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