YMMV / Ronnie Milsap

• Covered Up: Many times:
  • "Am I Losing You" was a Top 10 hit for Jim Reeves... twice.
  • "(I'd Be) a Legend in My Time" was originally a Don Gibson song. Milsap's cover changes it from a waltz to 4/4 time.
  • "Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry" is an Al Dexter cover.
  • "What a Difference You've Made in My Life" was released by Amy Grant at the same time.
  • Burt Bacharach's "Any Day Now" had been recorded by Chuck Jackson, Alan Price and Elvis Presley. Ronnie's version is the most famous.
  • "Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)" had been recorded by Ray Price (both solo and as a duet with Willie Nelson), going to #11 both times. Ronnie's version was a #1.
  • "Since I Don't Have You" is a doo-wop standard originally by The Skyliners and later made famous by Don McLean.
  • "Snap Your Fingers" had been recorded many times, first by Joe Henderson.
  • Going the other way, Dottsy had a hit in 1977 with "(After Sweet Memories) Play Born to Lose Again", which Milsap cut two years prior.
• Retroactive Recognition: Mariska Hargitay of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit fame appears in the music video for 1984's "She Loves My Car."
• Sampled Up: "Lost in the Fifties Tonight" samples "In the Still of the Night", a 1956 doo-wop hit by the Five Satins.
• Signature Song: A whole bunch of candidates, but "Smoky Mountain Rain" stands out, having been named one of the official state songs of Tennessee in 2010.
• Suspiciously Similar Song:
  • A deliberate case with "Smoky Mountain Rain". Milsap loved Elvis Presley's "Kentucky Rain" (a song he'd done backing vocals on) and asked songwriters Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan to write a song with similar ingredients.
  • "Back on My Mind Again" is a thinly-disguised musical rewrite of "Octopus's Garden" by The Beatles (specifically, the song's hook is simply the "Octopus's Garden" hook with two extra notes shoved in).
  • "My Heart" sounds a lot like "Back on My Mind Again", a bit of Self-Plagiarism on the part of Charles Quillen, who co-wrote both songs. In fact, Milsap initially didn't want to release "My Heart" as a single because it sounded too much like "Back on My Mind Again".