He recorded Nick Ashford and Valarie Simpson’s “Let’s Go Get Stoned” before Ray Charles, and scored a Top 20 R&B hit with another Ashford and Simpson tune, “Never Had It So Good.” While tending to his budding solo career, Milsap also worked sessions, playing piano on Elvis Presley’s “Kentucky Rain” and contributing to other recordings by The King. He signed with New York’s Scepter Records, home of Dionne Warwick and B.J. Almost completely blind from birth, the singer-pianist overcame adversities to release his first single in 1963. But Milsap had been making music professionally for a decade. A third song lifted from the LP, "That Girl Who Waits on Tables,” did almost as well with a No. 5 on the Billboard C&W Albums chart, and two tracks, "I Hate You" and "(All Together Now) Let's Fall Apart," both reached the top ten of the country chart.
Milsap’s 1973 RCA debut Where My Heart Is, the first disc in the box, might have given the impression that the North Carolina-born vocalist was an overnight sensation.
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The Academy of Country Music has recognized him with a Career Achievement Award at the ACM Honors ceremony in Nashville, and in October, the “It Was Almost Like a Song” and “Any Day Now” singer will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame's 2014 class, alongside Mac Wiseman and the late Hank Cochran. Country music superstar Ronnie Milsap is having a great year.