"Pure Love" is the song which also marked the first country chart-topping single by its writer, Eddie Rabbitt, a country music singer.
| Pure Love | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Ronnie Milsap |
| 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 |
| Producer: | Tom Collins, Jack D. Johnson |
| Prev Title: | That Girl Who Waits on Tables |
| Prev Year: | 1973 |
| Next Title: | Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends |
| Next Year: | 1974 |
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 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]
| Chart (1974) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] | 71 | |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 2 |
. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 202.