Pure Love (song)

"Pure Love"
Single by Ronnie Milsap
from the album Pure Love
B-side	"Love the Second Time Around"
Released	March 1974 (U.S.)
Format	7"
Recorded	January 1974
Genre	Country
Length	2:21
Label	RCA
Writer(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)

"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.

The song also marked the first country chart-topping single by its writer, Eddie Rabbitt, who had tasted previous success with 1970's "Kentucky Rain" by Elvis Presley. In the song, 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).

Rabbitt would later record the song as the B-side to his 1975 single "Forgive and Forget".

Chart performance

Chart (1974)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	2

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Preceded by "No Charge" by Melba Montgomery

Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single June 1, 1974

Succeeded by "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton