The Pill (song)

Infobox Single
Name = The Pill


Artist = Loretta Lynn
from Album = Back to Country
Released = 1975
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1975
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = MCA Records
Writer = Loretta Lynn
Producer = Owen Bradley
Chart position =
Last single = "Feelins" (w/ Conway Twitty)
(1975)
This single = "The Pill"
(1975)
Next single = "When the Tingle Becomes a Chill
(1975)"The Pill" is a 1975 country music song written and recorded by Loretta Lynn. It is one of her best known and most controversial songs.

About the song

"The Pill", lyrics penned by T. D. Bayless, is often said to be the first song to talk about birth control. The song talks about a wife who is upset about her husband getting her pregnant year after year, and is now happy because she can control having children because she has "the pill". The song, like many of Lynn's other hits, was based largely on her personal life.

Because of the song's open discussion of birth control, something that was considered risqué to talk about at the time, especially in a song, was originally banned from Country radio. However, due to the success of Lynn's sales of the single, radio eventually decided to play the song.

Released in mid-1975, the song was Lynn's first single that year she released as a solo artist, after having a major duet hit with Conway Twitty earlier that year. The song reached Country's Top 10, peaking at No. 5, the Top 5 on the Billboard Country music charts. Even though the song didn't reach the top spot, it is still one of Lynn's best-known and signature songs. "The Pill" also climbed to the low ends of the Pop charts, peaking at No. 70, Lynn's highest-climbing chart position as a solo act on that chart. The single was released on her 1975, "Back to Country" and was the only single released from the album.