I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World

Infobox Single
Name = I Wouldn't Have Missed It For the World


Artist = Ronnie Milsap
from Album = There's No Gettin' Over Me
Released = October 1981 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1981
Genre = Country, pop
Length = 3:35
Label = RCA Records
Writer = Kye Fleming, Dennis Morgan, Charles Quillen
Producer =
Last single = "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me"
(1981)
This single = "I Wouldn't Have Missed It For the World"
(1981)
Next single = "Any Day Now"
(1982)

"I Wouldn't Have Missed It For the World" is a song made famous by country music singer Ronnie Milsap. Originally released in 1981, the song became one of his biggest hits in his recording career and came during the peak of his crossover success.

Tom Jurek, a music reviewer and writer for Allmusic, cited "I Wouldn't Have Missed It ..." as "urban cowboy country music in its purest essence," referring to the pop crossover-style of country music that was in vogue during the early 1980s. The song — which prominently featured backing vocals, a harp and acoustic guitar — had a chorus that, wrote Jurek, "is so infectious it could be heard being hummed and whistled on street corners and its words being sung in barrooms and dancehalls throughout the rest of 1981." [Jurek, Thom, [http://wm02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hjfwxqw5ldje "There's No Gettin' Over Me"] by Ronnie Milsap, Allmusic.]

Chart performance

His 19th No. 1 hit on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart in January 1982, "I Wouldn't Have Missed It For the World" reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song also reached No. 3 on "Billboard's" Hot Adult Contemporary Singles chart.

A video was also produced of the song, and it has aired on The Nashville Network, CMT and GAC.

References and sources

References

ources

*Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.
*Whitburn, Joel, "Top Pop Singles: 1955-2006," 2007.