Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)
| "Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)" |
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| Single by Ronnie Milsap | ||||
| from the album Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | ||||
| B-side | "I Might Have Said" (Mike Reid) | |||
| Released | July 13, 1985 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | Country, pop | |||
| Length | 4:05 | |||
| Label | RCA Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Mike Reid Troy Seals Fred Parris ("In the Still of the Night") |
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| Producer(s) | Tom Collins Ronnie Milsap Rob Galbraith |
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| Ronnie Milsap singles chronology | ||||
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"Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In The Still of the Night)", a single released by country music singer Ronnie Milsap. It is a medley of "Lost in the Fifties Tonight" written by Mike Reid and Troy Seals and a cover of The Five Satins' 1956 hit "In the Still of the Night".[1]
Success and Reception
Released in July 1985, the song was Milsap's 42nd single to be released. At the same time, it was also his 27th No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[2]
Like many of his other singles, the song also fared well as a crossover hit on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts as it entered the Top 10, peaking at No. 8. This is his last Top 10 single to appear on this chart.[3]
The song was praised by critics, and fans alike, and remains as one Milsap's most popular recordings. In a year when 51 songs rotated out of the Hot Country Singles' No. 1 position, "Lost in the Fifties Tonight" was one of just two songs of the group to spend more than one week at No. 1 (it spent two, as did The Judds' "Have Mercy"), and Milsap's song was the No. 1 country song of 1985.
That same year, it won Milsap his fourth Grammy Award for "Best Country Vocal Performance" for a male artist.
Chart positions
| Chart (1985) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks | 8 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks | 20 |
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| Preceded by | Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single September 28-October 5, 1985 |
Succeeded by "Meet Me in Montana" by Dan Seals with Marie Osmond |
| Preceded by | RPM Country Tracks number-one single October 12-October 19, 1985 |
Succeeded by "You Make Me Want to Make You Mine" by Juice Newton |
| Preceded by | Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single of the year 1985 |
Succeeded by "Never Be You" by Rosanne Cash |
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