Pure Love

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“Pure Love”
Single by Ronnie Milsap from the album Pure Love
Released	March 1974 (U.S.)
Format	7"
Recorded	1974
Genre	Country
Length	2:19
Label	RCA Records
Writer(s)	Eddie Rabbitt
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 made famous by country music singer Ronnie Milsap. Originally released in 1974, the song became Milsap's first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the late spring of the year and 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 main protagonist and his/her object of affection is "99 44/100 percent pure" (borrowing from the old Ivory soap advertising slogan).

[edit] Sources

• Elerwine, Stephen Thomas, Pure Love at All Music Guide.
• Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.

Preceded by "No Charge" by Melba Montgomery

Billboard Hot Country Singles number one single by Ronnie Milsap June 1, 1974

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