Nobody Likes Sad Songs
"Nobody Likes Sad Songs" | ||||
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Single by Ronnie Milsap | ||||
from the album Images | ||||
B-side | "Just Because It Feels Good" | |||
Released | April 28, 1979 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 4:04 | |||
Label | RCA Nashville | |||
Songwriter(s) | Bob McDill, Wayland Holyfield | |||
Producer(s) | Ronnie Milsap, Tom Collins | |||
Ronnie Milsap singles chronology | ||||
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"Nobody Likes Sad Songs" is a song written by Bob McDill and Wayland Holyfield, and recorded by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in April 1979 as the first single from the album Images. The song was Milsap's 12th number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of 12 weeks on the country chart.[1]
Content
The song is told from the perspective of a once-successful performer, who laments about his current lack of success and appeal to audiences because he sings "sad" songs. He refers to his past successes, including his ability to entertain large crowds and repertoire of mainly uptempo, "happy" songs. However, his personal life is anything but happy, and it affects his performing style; he soon begins performing only heartbreak songs, songs he quickly finds his fans don't want to hear. His fans soon begin alienating him, and soon nobody is coming to his shows. Worse, when he tries to rekindle his success by performing his previous "happy" songs, he finds he is unable to credibly do so because of his personal heartbreak.
Later, the performer's tour manager contacts him and announces he is dropping him from the tour. He admonishes him: "What happened son, you had it made?/Why'd you change the way you played?"
Charts
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References
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- Ronnie Milsap
- Where My Heart Is
- Pure Love
- Legend in My Time
- A Rose By Any Other Name
- Night Things
- 20/20 Vision
- It Was Almost Like a Song
- Only One Love in My Life
- Images
- Milsap Magic
- Out Where the Bright Lights Are Glowing
- There's No Gettin' Over Me
- Inside
- Keyed Up
- One More Try for Love
- Lost in the Fifties Tonight
- Christmas with Ronnie Milsap
- Heart & Soul
- Stranger Things Have Happened
- Back to the Grindstone
- True Believer
- Sings His Best for Capitol Records
- Just for a Thrill
- My Life
- Then Sings My Soul
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
- 40 #1 Hits
- 16 Biggest Hits
- "Pure Love"
- "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"
- "(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time"
- "Daydreams About Night Things"
- "What Goes On When the Sun Goes Down"
- "(I'm A) Stand by My Woman Man"
- "Let My Love Be Your Pillow"
- "It Was Almost Like a Song"
- "What a Difference You've Made in My Life"
- "Only One Love in My Life"
- "Let's Take the Long Way Around the World"
- "Back on My Mind Again"
- "Nobody Likes Sad Songs"
- "Why Don't You Spend the Night"
- "My Heart"
- "Cowboys and Clowns"
- "Smoky Mountain Rain"
- "Am I Losing You"
- "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me"
- "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World"
- "Any Day Now"
- "He Got You"
- "Inside"
- "Stranger in My House"
- "Don't You Know How Much I Love You"
- "Show Her"
- "Still Losing You"
- "She Keeps the Home Fires Burning"
- "Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)"
- "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby"
- "In Love"
- "How Do I Turn You On"
- "Snap Your Fingers"
- "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" (with Kenny Rogers)
- "Where Do the Nights Go"
- "Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)"
- "A Woman in Love"
- "Stranger Things Have Happened"
- "Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry"
- "Just in Case"
- "In No Time at All"
- "Prisoner of the Highway"
- "Old Folks" (with Mike Reid)
- "Button Off My Shirt"
- "Houston Solution"
- "Are You Lovin' Me Like I'm Lovin' You"
- "Since I Don't Have You"
- "Turn That Radio On"
- "All Is Fair in Love and War"
- "True Believer"
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