I'm Jeff Raymond and I co-wrote this song. I appreciate all the great things said here about Eddie. He was a great guy and I wrote in my Book about Eddie and Me and Clint Eastwood at the Palamino in L. A. It was a Hollywood moment in time me.
I remember going to the Palomino in the mid-late 80's. But the time this Variations album came out in 1978, you guys may have been hanging out there some years earlier. I have a question, Jeff. Are Alan Ray and Even Stevens still around ? Great song, and thanks for commenting !
He was SO TALENTED he wrote A LOT of his own songs & wasn't flashy & hot Dann, SEXY the 1st time I saw him on the TV I FELL in love with him, I swear to God I'd have slept in his dirty laundry basket🤩 I never had much money back then but HIS album was the 1st album I ever bought, I wore "Love lines" OUT!
What a talented man! Not to mention extremely good-looking, and charismatic. Such a shame, he died so young. RIP, Eddie--thanks for all the wonderful music.😔💒
He belongs in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Eddie’s been gone almost 21 years now. Disgraceful his wife and children are being denied enjoying that honor. He had something like a 10 year unbroken string of number one hit singles!! Crystal needs to be coming up for consideration also.!
Wait. I'm not a huge country fan, but I am a fan of songwriters. But this guy wrote "Kentucky Rain" for gawdsake!! That song BY ITSELF should immortalize him in ANY "Hall of Fame" It's simply a brilliant song! A standard. It's probably the same kind of stupid ass politics that keep Dan Fogelberg out of the "Rock & Roll Hall of Flaming Fucking Egos." Disgraceful.
Those are the hardest words You'll ever hear. I remember 1978 and it should have been the best time of my life I Miss Eddie Rabbit, cancer took him too soon.
I'm an R&B person but I've always loved Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Waylon and Eddie. Saw Eddie twice in concert. Dang, he was talented and so handsome. Going through my album collection now in effort to downsize and came across some of Eddie's albums. What memories. Gone way too soon!
Who would’ve ever dreamt, a yankee (no offense meant! Loved a few of them) could do this kinda country and be so excellent at it! Saw him once, Sound Warehouse in Houston! Snuck out to do it (I was 12) what do ya know, my face came up in the Houston Chronicle that Sunday and I got busted by my Mom and Dad! Got grounded, but never regretted it! He was a “one of a kind of magic”♥️♥️♥️
That's how I feel, I made a Playlist of my own another nothing but EDDIE RABBITT, he wrote so many songs, I don't get bored listening to him ... Even repetition of many of his songs, always love it when they pop up again and again ❤
Yes he should be n he Hall Fame he deserves that much because i love the way he sing's , when i listen to it i sing to it because i know it that it important people love his music !!!
COUNTRY MUSIC LEGEND HE SURE TAUGHT ME AS A KID GOOD COUNTRY MUSIC STYLE I SURE MISS THIS SOUND ! GOD BLESS YOU EDDIE YOU ARE DEFINITELY ONE OF THE GREATS!!
He was one of the last great country artists. The heart of country was gone by the late 80s, in my opinion. It became something different that I didn't like much and still don't. I'm sure money and greed had something to do with it.
I always found time for an Eddy Rabbit song during a 4 or 5 hour on air shift.Most the time a listener would request 1 from him or I find 1. He wrote "Old Kentucky rain" for Elvis Presley and wrote other songs as well. The fact that he was from New Jersey and his father came from Ireland was unique in American country music of the time.Eddy and his producers moved country music into a wider cross over audience that also included many traditionalist who understood that like bringing electric guitars and drums into country,so to the Eddy Rabbits,John Denver and Kenny Rogers of the industry had to come on in. Country having a BIG tent during this time kept it alive.
Saw him 4 times in concert, best was the one he gave early in his career at The Blue Max in Rosemont , Illinois! One of my most memorable concerts in my lifetime !
He wrote mostly all his songs. He was known as a song writer and had written Kentucky Rain (Elvis) and Pure Love (Ronnie Milsap) before he was performing his own songs. He was amazing!
Why has'nt the AMERICAN MUSIC INDUSTRY,not given any form of recognition to the late EDDIE RABBIT? The man is brilliant singer deserving of such awards in ant form,if the music industry inthe USA,could award so called singers like Taylor Swift,whose works,is i seriously doubt would be remember by the 2030's ,then EDDIE RABBIT,should be given due recognition,posthumously as it is. CRYSTAL GAYLE,should be given the same,she still very much around,i find it stupid and ironic that mediocre singers,are given awards,while the brilliant ones are completely ignored.
1978; one of his dozen-and-a-half or so Country #1's, and probably the first of them to cross to AC/Top-40, where he also did well in the late 70's to mid-80's. Cancer took him in the mid-90's. Most of his records were made in Nashville, using some of the best studio people on the planet.
