Pure Love (Ronnie Milsap song)

"Pure Love"
"Pure Love"
Single by Ronnie Milsap
from the album Pure Love
B-side	"Love the Second Time Around"
Released	March 1974 (U.S.)
Recorded	January 1974
Genre	Country
Length	2:21
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)	Eddie Rabbitt
Producer(s)	Tom Collins, Jack D. Johnson
Ronnie Milsap singles chronology

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

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.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Pure Love"	Eddie Rabbitt	2:27

Background

"Pure Love" is a song recorded by American country music singer Ronnie Milsap. It was released in March 1974 as the first single and title track from the album Pure Love. The song was Milsap's first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the late spring of the year. Although Milsap had two previous top 15 hits—"I Hate You" and "That Girl Who Waits on Tables," both 1973—"Pure Love" is largely credited as being his career-breaking hit.

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

^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 337. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
^ 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.
^ "Ronnie Milsap Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

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[whitburn-1] Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 337. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.

[aus-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.

[sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Ronnie_Milsap-3] "Ronnie Milsap Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

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v t e Ronnie Milsap
Studio albums	Ronnie Milsap Where My Heart Is Pure Love Legend in My Time A Rose By Any Other Name Night Things 20/20 Vision It Was Almost Like a Song Only One Love in My Life Images Milsap Magic Out Where the Bright Lights Are Glowing There's No Gettin' Over Me Inside Keyed Up One More Try for Love Lost in the Fifties Tonight Christmas with Ronnie Milsap Heart & Soul Stranger Things Have Happened Back to the Grindstone True Believer Sings His Best for Capitol Records Just for a Thrill My Life Then Sings My Soul
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 40 #1 Hits 16 Biggest Hits
#1 singles	"Pure Love" "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" "(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time" "Daydreams About Night Things" "What Goes On When the Sun Goes Down" "(I'm A) Stand by My Woman Man" "Let My Love Be Your Pillow" "It Was Almost Like a Song" "What a Difference You've Made in My Life" "Only One Love in My Life" "Let's Take the Long Way Around the World" "Back on My Mind Again" "Nobody Likes Sad Songs" "Why Don't You Spend the Night" "My Heart" "Cowboys and Clowns" "Smoky Mountain Rain" "Am I Losing You" "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me" "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World" "Any Day Now" "He Got You" "Inside" "Stranger in My House" "Don't You Know How Much I Love You" "Show Her" "Still Losing You" "She Keeps the Home Fires Burning" "Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)" "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby" "In Love" "How Do I Turn You On" "Snap Your Fingers" "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" (with Kenny Rogers) "Where Do the Nights Go" "Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)" "A Woman in Love" "Stranger Things Have Happened"
Other songs	"Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry" "Just in Case" "In No Time at All" "Prisoner of the Highway" "Old Folks" (with Mike Reid) "Button Off My Shirt" "Houston Solution" "Are You Lovin' Me Like I'm Lovin' You" "Since I Don't Have You" "Turn That Radio On" "All Is Fair in Love and War" "True Believer"
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