A Woman In Love (Ronnie Milsap Song)
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"A Woman in Love" is a song written by
Curtis Wright Curtis Blaine Wright (born June 6, 1955) is an American country music artist. He first played in the 1970s and 80s as a member of the Super Grit Cowboy Band before becoming a solo artist in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Wright charted three s ...
and Doug Millett, and recorded by American
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singer
Ronnie Milsap Ronnie Lee Milsap (born Ronald Lee Millsaps; January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. Nearly completely blind from birth, h ...
. It was released in September 1989 as the third single from the album '' Stranger Things Have Happened''. It was his last song to reach number one on the U.S. country singles chart.


Content

The song tells the story of a man who is confused with the way women in love behave. For an example, during the chorus, Ronnie sings the following line: "You ''never know'' with a woman in love."


Success and reception

"A Woman in Love" was Milsap's 53rd
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to be released and the third track from the
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''Stranger Things Have Happened'', the song became his last number-one single, which was accompanied by a
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for the song.
Curtis Wright Curtis Blaine Wright (born June 6, 1955) is an American country music artist. He first played in the 1970s and 80s as a member of the Super Grit Cowboy Band before becoming a solo artist in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Wright charted three s ...
, who had just quit
Vern Gosdin Vernon Gosdin (August 5, 1934 – April 28, 2009) aka Country music's "The Voice", was an American country music singing, singer. He had 19 top-10 solo hits on the country music charts from 1977 through 1990. Three of these hits went to Number O ...
's road band, wrote the song in 1989. He said that when Doug Millett presented him with the idea, he was initially uninterested in writing the song, but "it kind of opened up like a book". Wright was still concerned that its hook was too similar to
Earl Thomas Conley Earl Thomas Conley (October 17, 1941 – April 10, 2019)Wood, Gerry. (1998). "Earl Thomas Conley". In ''The Encyclopedia of Country Music''. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 108. was an American country music singer-songwriter. Between ...
's 1988 single " What She Is (Is a Woman in Love)", and thought that the song was not suited for Milsap's style.


Chart positions


Year-end charts


References

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