“I think we actually got the definitive cut on ‘A Better Word for Love.’” “This song has been around town a while, a lot of people tried it,” Milsap says. The title track, “A Better Word for Love,” was written by Al Anderson and Gary Nicholson. “They should say something of course, about love and real life.” “Looking for good songs takes time,” he says. Great songs have always been the bedrock of Milsap’s career, and he’s devoted his life to finding hidden gems and bringing them to life with his own unique style of R&B-influenced country.
When Rob and I started this project a few years ago, we decided some of those songs were so special… We wanted to build this album around them, so they wouldn’t be treasures only Joyce and I could hear.” “Over the years, they’ve kept bringing me unbelievable songs, and in some cases, they’ve let me hang onto them because I loved them so much. “I have been blessed to work with some of the very best songwriters in the world,” he says. On A Better Word for Love, Milsap once again delivers songs from some of Nashville’s top tunesmiths, including Mike Reid (“Stranger In My House,” “I Can’t Make You Love Me”), Gary Nicholson (“One More Last Chance,” “The Trouble With The Truth”), Al Anderson (“All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down,” “The Cowboy In Me”), Jim Weatherly (“Midnight Train To Georgia,” “Best Thing To Ever Happen To Me”), Brent Maher (“Why Not Me,” “Lesson In Leavin’”), Allen Shamblin (“The House That Built Me,” “Life’s A Dance”), and David Ball (“Drinkin’ Problem”). 1 hits to his credit and has won six Grammy Awards. He has won four ACM Awards including 1985 Song of the Year for “Lost in the Fifties Tonight.” He has 35 No. Milsap won CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1977 as well as an unprecedented four CMA Album of the Year Awards and three CMA Male Vocalist honors. 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.A post shared by Black River Entertainment his decades long career, Milsap dominated country and pop radio with such hits as “Stranger in my House,” “Lost in the Fifties Tonight,” “Smoky Mountain Rain,” “I Wouldn’t Have Missed it for the World,” “Any Day Now,” “(There’s) No Getting’ Over Me” and many others.
1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the late spring of the year. It was released in March 1974 as the first single and title track from the album Pure Love. " Pure Love" is a song recorded by American country music singer Ronnie Milsap. " Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" 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 44⁄ 100 percent pure" (borrowing from the old Ivory soap advertising slogan).Įddie Rabbitt would later record the song as the B-side to his 1975 single " Forgive and Forget". Rabbitt had tasted previous success with 70's " Kentucky Rain", sung by Elvis Presley.
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