Ronnie Milsap
Studio album by Ronnie Milsap
Released	August 1971
Studio	American Sound Studio, Memphis; Muscle Shoals Sound Studios; Quadrafonic Sound Studios, Nashville; Ardent Studios, Memphis; Record Plant, Los Angeles; Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco
Genre	Country
Length	33:51
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer	Dan Penn
Ronnie Milsap chronology
Ronnie Milsap (1971) Where My Heart Is (1973)

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Ronnie Milsap is the debut studio album by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in 1971 on Warner Bros. Records.

Among the tracks on the album is " Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends", which he re-recorded in 1974 after he signed a contract with RCA Nashville and established himself as a hitmaker in country music. The remake went on to be a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

Track listing

1. "Dedicate the Blues to Me" ( Huey P. Meaux) – 3:20
2. "Sunday Rain" ( Mark James) – 3:09
3. " Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" ( Kris Kristofferson) – 3:00
4. "Sweet Little Rock & Roller" ( Chuck Berry) – 3:17
5. "Blue Skies of Montana" ( Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn) – 5:29
6. "Sanctified" ( Jim Dickinson, Bob McDill) – 3:33
7. "Keep on Smiling (1980)" (Karen Oldham, Spooner Oldham) – 3:21
8. "The Cat Was a Junkie" ( Bobby Weinstein, Jon Stroll)
9. " Crying" ( Joe Melson, Roy Orbison) – 2:30
10. "Not for the Love of a Woman" (Nat Foster) – 3:08
11. "Why" (Swain Schaefer) – 3:04

Personnel

• Ronnie Milsap – vocals, keyboards
• Eddie Hinton, Gimmer Nicholson, James Burton, Johnny Christopher, Reggie Young, Tippy Armstrong, Wayne Perkins – guitar
• Chris Ethridge, Mike Leech, Norbert Putnam – bass
• Bobby Emmons, Bobby Wood, David Briggs, Glen Spreen, Jim Dickinson, Swain Schaefer – Hammond B-3
• Gene Chrisman, Kenny Buttrey, Roger Hawkins – drums
• Hayward Bishop – percussion
• Andrew Love, Wayne Jackson, Ed Logan – horns
• The Black Berries – backing vocals
• Glen Spreen - string arrangements

Technical

• Dan Penn, Gene Eichelberger, Jim Johnson, Marlin Greene, Ralph Rhodes, Terry Manning – engineers
• Ed Thrasher – art director
• Jim Marshall – photography

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