Pure Love

Infobox Single
Name = Pure Love


Artist = Ronnie Milsap
from Album = Pure Love
Released = March 1974 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1974
Genre = Country
Length = 2:19
Label = RCA Records
Writer = Eddie Rabbitt
Producer =
Last single = "That Girl Who Waits On Tables"
(1973)
This single = "Pure Love"
(1974)
Next single = "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).

ources

*Elerwine, Stephen Thomas, [http://wc05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:gjfwxqw5ldje "Pure Love"] at Allmusic.
*Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.