| "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World" | ||||
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| Single by Ronnie Milsap | ||||
| from the 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(s) | Kye Fleming, Dennis Morgan, Charles Quillen | |||
| Ronnie Milsap singles chronology | ||||
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"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."[1]
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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.
| Chart (1981-1982) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 20 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks | 3 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
| Preceded by "Fourteen Carat Mind" by Gene Watson |
Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single January 16, 1982 |
Succeeded by "Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night" by Conway Twitty |
| Preceded by "Love in the First Degree" by Alabama |
RPM Country Tracks number-one single January 23-January 30, 1982 |
Succeeded by "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)" by Juice Newton |