Pure Love (Ronnie Milsap song)

"Pure Love" is the song which also marked the first country chart-topping single by its writer, Eddie Rabbitt, a country music singer.

"Pure Love"
Single by Ronnie Milsap
from the album Pure Love
B-side"Love the Second Time Around"
ReleasedMarch 1974 (U.S.)
RecordedJanuary 1974
GenreCountry
Length2:21
LabelRCA Victor
Songwriter(s)Eddie Rabbitt
Producer(s)Tom Collins, Jack D. Johnson
Ronnie Milsap singles chronology
"That Girl Who Waits on Tables"
(1973) 		"Pure Love"
(1974) 		"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"
(1974)

Background

Rabbitt had tasted previous success with 70's "Kentucky Rain", sung by Elvis Presley. In the song, Eddie Rabbitt compares "pure love" to such things as milk, honey and the Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal, before pointing out that the love shared between the protagonist and his/her object of affection is "99 44⁄100 percent pure" (borrowing from the old Ivory soap advertising slogan). Eddie Rabbitt would later record the song as the B-side to his 1975 single "Forgive and Forget".[1]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Pure Love"Eddie Rabbitt2:27

Chart performance

Chart (1974) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] 71
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 2

Sources

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 337. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 202. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  3. ^ "Ronnie Milsap Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.


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