Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends explained

Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends
Type:single
Artist:Ronnie Milsap
Album:Pure Love
B-Side:Streets of Gold
Released:July 1974
Recorded:May 1971 (original Warner Bros. Records version)
January 1974 (RCA Records version)
Genre:Country
Length:2:41
Label:RCA Victor
Producer:Tom Collins, Jack D. Johnson
Prev Title:Pure Love
Prev Year:1974
Next Title:(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time
Next Year:1974

"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and first recorded by Bobby Bare, who included it on his Where Have All the Seasons Gone album in January 1971.

Kristofferson recorded the song with Rita Coolidge for their final duet album, Natural Act, and later with Mark Knopfler for The Austin Sessions.

Ronnie Milsap version

In 1974, the song was recorded by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in July, as the second single from the album Pure Love. The song was his fourth country hit and second number one on the country chart. With this song Milsap won his first Grammy award for Best Country Vocal Performance. The single stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of nine weeks on the country chart.[1] Milsap himself recorded an earlier version of the song, released on his 1971 self-titled album while recording for Warner Bros. Records.

Charts

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 232.