Eddie Rabbitt - Original Artist Hit List: Eddie Rabbitt '2003

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. I'll Make Everything Alright (02:31)
2. Great Old American Town (03:53)
3. It's Me I'm Runnin' From (03:19)
4. Drivin' My Life Away (03:17)
5. On Second Thought (03:36)
6. Love May Never Pass This Way Again (03:25)
7. Two Dollars In The Jukebox (02:22)
8. Suspicions (04:58)
9. American Boy (03:16)
10. I'm There (03:23)
11. I Love A Rainy Night (03:12)
12. You've Come To The Right Heart (03:49)


 moreBorn in Brooklyn, New York on November 27, 1941 and raised in East
Orange, New Jersey, Eddie Rabbitt became enamored of music as a child, a love
fostered by his scoutmaster and neighbor Tony Schwickrath, who performed under
the name Texas Bob Randall. Schwickrath taught Rabbitt guitar and introduced him
to country music. After the divorce of his parents, Rabbitt dropped out of high
school, supporting himself with a variety of jobs as he followed his dreams of a
musical career. In 1964, 20th Century Fox Records released "Six Nights and Seven
Days"/"Next to the Note," which didn't get much attention. Rabbitt's first
success as a songwriter arrived when Roy Drusky cut Rabbitt's "Working My Way Up
from the Bottom" for his 1966 LP In a New Dimension, but he continued to
struggle as a performer. "The Bed," a single he released on Date in 1968, didn't
make waves but the song caught the attention of Lee Hazlewood, who released his
own version in 1969.

"The Bed" was the beginning of Rabbitt's transition to a professional
songwriter. He moved to Nashville in 1968, signing a contract with the
publishing house Hill & Range. Late in 1969, Elvis Presley recorded "Kentucky
Rain," a song Rabbitt co-wrote with Dick Heard. "Kentucky Rain" reached 16 on
the Hot 100. Presley cut two additional Rabbitt tunes in 1970: "Inherit the
Wind" appeared on Back in Memphis while "Patch It Up" appeared on That's the Way
It Is. Rabbitt's next success arrived in the spring of 1974, when Ronnie Milsap
brought the ebullient "Pure Love" to the top of the Country charts.

Elektra signed Rabbitt in the wake of Milsap's success, releasing the "You Get
to Me" single in August of 1974. A self-titled debut arrived in 1975, with its
singles "Forgive and Forget" and "I Should Have Married You" falling just short
of Billboard's Country Top Ten. "Drinkin' My Baby (Off My Mind)," the single
that became his first number one country hit in 1976, had a honky tonk shuffle
and a pop sensibility, a blend that suited contemporary country radio. It was
the lead single off 1976's Rocky Mountain Music, which also generated the Top
Ten Country hits "Rocky Mountain Music" and "Two Dollars in the Jukebox."
Arriving in 1977, Rabbitt maintained momentum with its Top Ten singles "I Can't
Help Myself" and "We Can't Go On Living Like This," hits big enough to earn him
the award of Top New Male Vocalist from the Academy of Country Music in 1978.

Variations brought Rabbitt further into pop territory thanks to the smooth "You
Don't Love Me Anymore," a number one country hit that also reached 18 on
Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. "I Just Want to Love You" also reached
number one Country, but its soft disco pulse gave him another minor adult
contemporary hit, helping setting the stage for "Every Which Way But Loose," the
theme song to the Clint Eastwood comedy of the same name, to become his first
Top 40 pop hit in 1979. Rabbitt bettered that performance with "Suspicions," a
sultry slow-burner that topped the Country charts, reached the Adult
Contemporary Top Ten, and nearly made it into the pop Top Ten. "Suspicions" was
one of three big country hits from Loveline, the 1979 album that also featured
"Pour Me Another Tequila" and "Gone Too Far."

Horizon became Rabbitt's biggest album in 1980 thanks to a pair of massive
crossover singles, both thrumming to a streamlined rockabilly beat. "Drivin' My
Life Away" reached number one on the Country charts, making it to five pop,
while "I Love a Rainy Night" topped the Country, Pop, and Adult Contemporary
charts. "Step by Step" and "Someone Could Lose a Heart Tonight," both pulled
from 1981's Step by Step, maintained this streak, as did 1982's Radio Romance
with its number one country hit "You and I," a duet with Crystal Gayle that
reached seven on the pop charts, two on adult contemporary.

The pop hits dried up after "You and I," a slowing that coincided with Rabbitt's
move to Warner Bros for 1984's The Best Year of My Life; by 1986, he had signed
with RCA Records. Rabbitt continued to reach the Billboard Country Top Ten
throughout the '80s, landing number ones with "The Best Year of My Life," the
Juice Newton duet "Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers)," "I Wanna Dance with
You," "The Wanderer," and "On Second Thought." "American Boy," a single from
1989's Jersey Boy -- his first and only album for Capitol -- became his last
Country Top 40 hit in 1990; it would later be the theme song for Bob Dole's 1996
presidential campaign. Rabbitt's increasing conservatism could be heard on Ten
Rounds, a 1991 album for Liberty that featured a song called "C-Rap (Country
Rap)."

After a few quiet years, Rabbitt released Beatin' the Odds on Intersound in
September 1997, its title a reference to the singer's recent diagnosis with lung
cancer. A children's album called Songs from Rabbittland arrived in April 1998.
Weeks later, he died in Nashville on May 7, 1998 at the age of 56. © Stephen
Thomas Erlewine



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