Ronnie Milsap - Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)

I started to post this, but had to shelve it as my wife and I had a 5PM dinner reservation... Just popped into RP on my laptop to post this one... If you were young enough, this Music Video swill bring back a host of memories... If not, you missed out on a fantastic part of life way back when it was fun... The singer is Ronnie Milsap from the 1970s taking a song from the late 50's and early 60's titled "In the Still of The Night" and taking us back to those great years...

I was in my mid-teens and through high school and 1st year of college (before I quit and joined the USAF to find out what I wanted to be when I grew up...) and his song was what it was all about when I was a teen...

Background Bio: Ronnie Milsap

"Ronnie Lee Milsap (born January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. He became country music's first well-known blind singer, and one of the most successful and versatile country "crossover" singers of his time, appealing to both country and pop music music markets with successful songs that incorporated pop, R&B, and rock and roll elements. Milsap’s biggest crossover hits include "It Was Almost Like a Song," "Smoky Mountain Rain," "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me," "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World," "Any Day Now," and "Stranger in My House," among others. He is credited with six Grammy Awards and 40 number one country hits, third to George Strait and Conway Twitty." Lyrics.com

About "In The Still of the Night"

The original song, "In the Still of the Nite", also subsequently titled "In the Still of the Night", is a song written by Nate Pruitt and recorded by his Five Satins. While only a moderate hit when first released (peaking at No. 24 on the national pop charts), it has received considerable airplay over the years and is notable as one of the best known doo-wop songs, recorded by artists such as Boyz II Men and Debbie Gibson. It is heard in several films, such as The Buddy Holly Story and Dirty Dancing, and in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman.

The Five Satins' original version was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings—published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981) —and ranked No. 90 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

LYRICS:

"Lost in the 50s Tonight" by Ronnie Milsap (Sung to and referring to the song) "In the still of the Night"

Close your eyes, baby
Follow my heart
Call on the memories
Here in the dark

We'll let the magic
Take us away
Back to the feelings
We shared when they played

In the still of the night
Hold me darlin', hold me tight, oh
So real, so right
Lost in the fifties tonight

These precious hours
We know can't survive
But love's all that matters
While the past is alive

Now and for always
Till time disappears
We'll hold each other
Whenever we hear

In the still of the night
Hold me darlin', hold me tight, say
So real, so right
Lost in the fifties tonight

Oh, so right, say
Oh, so real, so right
So real, so right

Written by: ARCHIE JORDAN, HAL DAVID

I hope you all enjoy it!
Kerry
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