Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends

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"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"
Single by Ronnie Milsap
from the album Pure Love
B-side"Streets of Gold"
ReleasedJuly 1974
RecordedMay 1971 (original Warner Bros. Records version)
January 1974 (RCA Records version)
GenreCountry
Length2:41
LabelRCA Nashville APBO-0313
Songwriter(s)Kris Kristofferson
Producer(s)Tom Collins, Jack D. Johnson
Ronnie Milsap singles chronology
"Pure Love"
(1974) 		"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"
(1974) 		"(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time"
(1974)

"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and first recorded by Bobby Bare, who included it on his Where Have All the Seasons Gone album in January 1971.

Kristofferson recorded the song with Rita Coolidge for their final duet album, Natural Act, and later with Mark Knopfler for The Austin Sessions.

Ronnie Milsap version[]

In 1974, the song was recorded by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in July, as the second single from the album Pure Love. The song was his fourth country hit and second number one on the country chart. With this song Milsap won his first Grammy award for Best Country Vocal Performance. The single stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of nine weeks on the country chart.[1] Milsap himself recorded an earlier version of the song, released on his 1971 self-titled album while recording for Warner Bros. Records.

Charts[]

Chart (1974) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[2] 95
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1

References[]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 232.
  2. ^ "Ronnie Milsap Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  3. ^ "Ronnie Milsap Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

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