Monday, January 21, 2019

Musical Interlude: Lost in The Fifties Tonight (In The Still of The Night)(1985)

In 1983, Billy Joel recorded "The Longest Time", which would be the last single off his album, "An Innocent Man". The video showed Joel returning to his high school for a class reunion.

While the theme isn't quite the same, Ronnie Milsap provided Nashville's answer two years later.

"Lost in The Fifties Tonight (In The Still of The Night)" is the title song of Milsap's CD, released in the summer of 1985. Like clockwork, it hit #1 on the country charts in the US & Canada, and peaked at #8 on the adult contemporary chart.

In the video, Milsap isn't playing the piano for a change. Instead, he's fronting a band at a high school prom.



Today, Ronnie Milsap is still recording, but he's more likely to be found on the gospel charts these days.

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