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    • Jan 16, 1943
    Ronnie Milsap is born in Robbinsville, North Carolina. The blind keyboard player emerges as one of country's most innovative performers, offsetting traditional fare with pop crossovers, winning six Grammy awards and the CMA's Entertainer honor in 1977. He enters the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014
    Sep 6, 1949
    Six-year-old Ronnie Milsap enters kindergarten at the North Carolina School for the Blind in Raleigh
    Oct 30, 1965
    Ronnie Milsap marries Joyce Reeves
    Dec 31, 1968
    Elvis Presley holds a New Year's Eve party for 200 at Memphis' Thunderbird Lounge. Performers include B.J. Thomas, Billy Lee Riley and Ronnie Milsap
    Feb 19, 1969
    Elvis Presley records Eddie Rabbitt's "Kentucky Rain" at Memphis' American Studios, with Ronnie Milsap on backing vocals
    Dec 31, 1969
    Elvis Presley's New Year's Eve party starts at Chenault's in Memphis, then moves to T.J.'s for music by Billy Lee Riley and Ronnie Milsap. In addition, songwriter Mark James performs "Suspicious Minds"
    Dec 27, 1972
    In conjunction with a move from Memphis, Ronnie Milsap debuts as the nightly talent at Nashville's King Of The Road Motor Inn. His first-night set list includes a song destined to become one of his first hits: "Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends"
    Jan 3, 1973
    Ronnie Milsap signs a management contract with Jack D. Johnson
    Jan 15, 1973
    Ronnie Milsap records his first two country hits, "I Hate You" and "That Girl Who Waits On Tables," at Nashville's Jack Clement Studios
    Mar 4, 1973
    A dozen strings are added to Ronnie Milsap's "Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends" during overdubs in Nashville
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