Ronnie Milsap - The Essential Ronnie Milsap (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.

Tracklist:

CD 1:

01. Daydreams About Night Things
02. Smoky Mountain Rain
03. Pure Love
04. That Girl Who Waits On Tables
05. It Was Almost Like a Song
06. (All Together Now) Let's Fall Apart
07. What Goes On When The Sun Goes Down
08. Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)
09. (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)

CD 2:

01. I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World
02. Any Day Now
03. Stranger in My House
04. What a Difference You've Made in My Life
05. Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)
06. Nobody Likes Sad Songs
07. Why Don't You Spend the Night
08. Let's Take the Long Way Around the World
09. Happy, Happy Birthday Baby
10. She Keeps The Home Fires Burning
11. Inside
12. Where Do the Nights Go
13. In Love
14. Cowboys And Clowns
15. Make No Mistake, She's Mine
16. How Do I Turn You On
17. Still Losing You
18. Show Her
19. He Got You