Just for a Thrill

Just for a Thrill
Studio album by Ronnie Milsap
Released	May 18, 2004
Genre	Country
Label	Image Entertainment
Producer	Jerry Sharell, Ronnie Milsap Rob Galbraith
Ronnie Milsap chronology
The Ultimate Ronnie Milsap (2004) Just for a Thrill (2004) My Life (2006)

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Allmusic	[1]

Just for a Thrill was the twenty-third studio album of country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in 2004 under Image Records, his first for the label. The album consisted of fourteen recordings of pop and jazz standards.

The record peaked at number 4 on Top Jazz Albums, Milsap's first appearance on the chart. Allmusic gave the album four stars, commenting that "Milsap's voice is in great shape." The review cited the tracks, "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," "Haunted Heart," "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye," "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," and "Since I Fell for You" as being "complemented" by Milsap's "vocals and piano."^[1]

Track listing

1. "I Don't Want Nobody to Have My Love But You" (Buddy Johnson) – 2:45
2. "Teach Me Tonight" (Sammy Cahn, Gene De Paul) – 4:08
3. "Cry" (Churchill Kohlman) – 3:53
4. "Make Believe Medley" – 3:24
   • "Make Believe" (Oscar Hammerstein II)
   • "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young)
5. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" – (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:46
6. "Haunted Heart" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:54
7. "But I Do" (Paul Gayten, Robert Guidry) – 4:04
8. "Since I Fell for You" (Johnson) – 4:19
9. "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter) – 4:04
10. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:21
11. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 3:27
12. "Just for a Thrill" (Lil Hardin Armstrong, Don Raye) – 3:37
13. "My Funny Valentine" (Hart, Lor Hart, Rodgers) – 3:40
14. "My Babe" (Willie Dixon) – 3:27

Cover versions

In 2013, the renowned Spanish actress & singer Natalia Dicenta released a version of the song "Just for a Thrill" on her album Colours.

Personnel

• James Atkinson - french horn
• Marilyn Baker - viola
• Rick Baptist - trumpet
• Wayne Bergeson - trumpet
• Charlie Bisharat - violin
• George Bohanon - trombone
• Tom Boyd - oboe
• Jamie Brantley - acoustic guitar
• Vanessa Brown - percussion
• Dennis Budimir - acoustic guitar
• Becky Bunnell - violin
• Pete Christlien - tenor saxophone
• Gene Cipriano - baritone saxophone
• Larry Corbett - cello
• Joel Derouin - violin
• Assa Drori - violin
• Ernest Ehrhardt - cello
• Charles Everett - violin
• Dominick Farinacci - trumpet
• Armen Garabedian - violin
• Berj Garabedian - violin
• Pamela Goldsmith - viola
• Gary Grant - trumpet
• Clayton Haslop - violin
• Dan Higgins - soprano saxophone
• David Hungate - bass guitar
• Marilyn Johnson - french horn
• Patricia Johnson - violin
• Anne Karam - cello
• Dan Kelly - french horn
• Paul Liem - drums
• Gayle Levant - harp
• Charles Loper - trombone
• Warren Luening - flugelhorn, trumpet
• Bob Mann - electric guitar
• Catherine Styron Marx - piano
• Ronnie Milsap - Fender Rhodes, piano, electric piano, lead vocals
• Jennifer Munday - violin
• Richard "Dick" Nash - trombone
• Dean Parks - electric guitar
• James Ross - viola
• Don Shelton - alto saxophone
• Harry Shirinian - viola
• Dan Smith - cello
• Phillip Teele - trombone
• Richard Todd - french horn
• Mari Tsumura - violin
• Miwako Watanabe - violin
• George Young - tenor saxophone

Chart

References

Ronnie Milsap
Studio albums	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 Country Again Summer #17
Compilation albums	Ronnie Milsap Live Greatest Hits Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 The Essential Ronnie Milsap Super Hits Only One Love 40 #1 Hits Ultimate Ronnie Milsap 16 Biggest Hits Playlist: The Very Best of Ronnie Milsap The RCA Albums Collection
#1 singles	"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"
Other songs	"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"
Related articles	Discography Warner Bros. Records RCA Records Liberty Records
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