Just for a Thrill is the twenty-third studio album of country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in 2004 under Image Records, his first for the label. The album consisted of fourteen recordings of pop and jazz standards.

The record peaked at number 11 on Top Jazz Albums, Milsap's first appearance on the chart. Allmusic gave the album four stars, commenting that "Milsap's voice is in great shape." The review cited the tracks, "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," "Haunted Heart," "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye," "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," and "Since I Fell for You" as being "complemented" by Milsap's "vocals and piano."

Just for a Thrill

Track listing

"I Don't Want Nobody to Have My Love But You" (Buddy Johnson) – 2:45

"Teach Me Tonight" (Sammy Cahn, Gene De Paul) – 4:08

"Cry" (Churchill Kohlman) – 3:53

"Make Believe Medley" – 3:24

"Make Believe" (Oscar Hammerstein II) "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young) "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" – (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:46 "Haunted Heart" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:54 "But I Do" (Paul Gayten, Robert Guidry) – 4:04 "Since I Fell for You" (Johnson) – 4:19 "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter) – 4:04 "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:21 "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 3:27 "Just for a Thrill" (Lil Hardin Armstrong, Don Raye) – 3:37 "My Funny Valentine" (Hart, Lor Hart, Rodgers) – 3:40 "My Babe" (Willie Dixon) – 3:27

Just for a Thrill

Cover versions

In 2013, the renowned Spanish actress and singer Natalia Dicenta released a version of the song "Just for a Thrill" on her album Colours.

Just for a Thrill

Personnel

James Atkinson - french horn

Marilyn Baker - viola

Rick Baptist - trumpet

Wayne Bergeson - trumpet

Charlie Bisharat - violin

George Bohanon - trombone

Tom Boyd - oboe

Jamie Brantley - acoustic guitar

Vanessa Brown - percussion

Dennis Budimir - acoustic guitar

Becky Bunnell - violin

Pete Christlien - tenor saxophone

Gene Cipriano - baritone saxophone

Larry Corbett - cello

Joel Derouin - violin

Assa Drori - violin

Ernest Ehrhardt - cello

Charles Everett - violin

Dominick Farinacci - trumpet

Armen Garabedian - violin

Berj Garabedian - violin

Pamela Goldsmith - viola

Gary Grant - trumpet

Clayton Haslop - violin

Dan Higgins - soprano saxophone

David Hungate - bass guitar

Marilyn Johnson - french horn

Patricia Johnson - violin

Anne Karam - cello

Dan Kelly - french horn

Paul Leim - drums

Gayle Levant - harp

Charles Loper - trombone

Warren Luening - flugelhorn, trumpet

Bob Mann - electric guitar

Catherine Styron Marx - piano

Ronnie Milsap - Fender Rhodes, piano, electric piano, lead vocals

Jennifer Munday - violin

Richard "Dick" Nash - trombone

Dean Parks - electric guitar

James Ross - viola

Don Shelton - alto saxophone

Harry Shirinian - viola

Dan Smith - cello

Phillip Teele - trombone

Richard Todd - french horn

Mari Tsumura - violin

Miwako Watanabe - violin

George Young - tenor saxophone

Chart

References

2004 albums

Ronnie Milsap albums

Image Entertainment albums