I Never Knew Love

"I Never Knew Love"
Single by Doug Stone
from the album More Love
B-side "This Empty House"[1]
Released October 19, 1993[2]
Format CD Single, Cassingle, 7" single
Genre Country
Length 3:32
Label Epic 77228
Writer(s) Larry Boone, Will Robinson
Producer James Stroud, Doug Stone
Doug Stone singles chronology
"Why Didn't I Think of That"
(1993)		 "I Never Knew Love'"
(1993)		 "Addicted to a Dollar"
(1994)

"I Never Knew Love" is a song co-written by Larry Boone and Will Robinson and recorded by Doug Stone. It was the lead-off single from his fourth album, More Love. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and #3 on the Canadian RPM Tracks chart. The song was also Stone's only entry on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at #81.[1]

Content

In this song, the narrator tells his lover about revelations in his life like that he didn't know the power of a song until his mother died, didn't know what innocence was until he saw a newborn baby, and didn't know what love was until he met her.

Chart performance

Chart (1993-1994) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs 2
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 3
The Billboard Hot 100 81

References

  1. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 405. ISBN 0-89820-177-2. 
  2. ^ AOL Music profile for "I Never Knew Love"
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