Thursday, January 10, 2019

Musical Interlude: Stranger in My House (1983)

A pea brained programmer in Denver kept country singer Ronnie Milsap from reaching #1 on the country chart with 1983's "Stranger in My House".

You see, the airhead in Denver thought this didn't sound so much like a country record, but rather closer to Led Zeppelin (????), but this was nowhere close to metal. Pop-rock? Yep, "Stranger" peaked at #23 on the Hot 100, and hit the top 10 on the country and adult contemporary charts.

Former football player Mike Reid wrote "Stranger", one of several songs that he'd written for Milsap before launching his own recording career.

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