16 Biggest Hits

by Ronnie Milsap

Overview

16 Biggest Hits lives up to its billing, more or less, rounding up a wide-ranging selection of Ronnie Milsap's most memorable songs. All but one of these 16 songs was a chart-topper, and the only one that wasn't, the Top Five-charting "Stranger in My House," is a darn good song nonetheless, certainly one of his best by any other measure. The selections of 16 Greatest Hits span 15 years, from "Pure Love" (1974) to "A Woman in Love" (1989), and the compilation leans heavily on Milsap's early-'80s hitmaking prime, when his music fit right in with the urban cowboy trend then prevailing. Thankfully, there's a good selection of mid-'70s hits thrown in as well, like the Kristofferson-penned "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends," so that Milsap's countrypolitan phase is represented, thereby counterbalancing the heft of the early-'80s material here. It's debatable whether or not 16 Biggest Hits would have been a better listen if it had been sequenced chronologically, if only to showcase the arc of Milsap's career. There's a bounty of Milsap best-ofs on the market, with double-discs like The Essential Ronnie Milsap (2006) and 40 #1 Hits (2000) standing out as the most comprehensive. However, if the prospect of 40 songs on one collection is too daunting, or just plain too much, a single-disc collection like 16 Biggest Hits or the 22-track Ultimate Ronnie Milsap (2004) is ideal. Either way, Milsap sang a ridiculous number of hits in his day, so it's hard to go wrong with any collection that's reasonably compiled. ~ Jason Birchmeier

Product Details

Release Date:	01/18/2011
Label:	Legacy / Rca Nashville / Sony Legacy
UPC:	0886978311627
Rank:	3452

Tracks

1. Pure Love
2. Smoky Mountain Rain
3. It Was Almost Like a Song
4. (I'm a) Stand By My Woman Man
5. Daydreams About Night Things
6. (I'd Be) a Legend In My Time
7. Lost In the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)
8. Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends
9. (There's) No Gettin' Over Me
10. Stranger In My House
11. My Heart
12. A Woman In Love
13. I Wouldn't Have Missed It For the World
14. Only One Love In My Life
15. Any Day Now
16. Let My Love Be Your Pillow

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ronnie Milsap   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Rob Galbraith   Audio Production,Producer,Original Recording Producer
Tom Collins   Audio Production,Producer
Jack D. Johnson   Composer,Producer,Original Recording Producer
Ronnie Milsap   Audio Production,Producer,Original Recording Producer
Troy Seals   Composer
Billy Sherrill   Composer
J. Bettis   Composer
J. Schweers   Composer
Jeremy Holiday   Packaging Manager
Tammy Wynette   Composer
D. Morgan   Composer
Fred Parris   Composer
Don Gibson   Composer
W. Aldridge   Composer
Rob Santos   Compilation Producer
Sean McGuire   Photography
Jean Carbain   Design
Jim McGuire   Cover Photo
K. Fleming   Composer
R. Fleming   Composer
Archie Jordan   Composer
C. Quillen   Composer
Burt Bacharach   Composer
C. Wright   Composer
Hal David   Composer
Kris Kristofferson   Composer
Don Pfrimmer   Composer
Vic Anesini   Mastering
Mike Reid   Composer
D.H. Shipley   Composer
E. Rabbitt   Composer
K. Robbins   Composer
Howard Fritzson   Art Direction
Robert Goodman   Design,Art Direction
Zak Profera   A&R
Big Tom Collins   Original Recording Producer
Jim Parham   Project Director
B. Hilliard   Composer