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Edward Thomas "Eddie" Rabbitt (November 27, 1941 - May 7, 1998) was a country music singer and songwriter who reached the peak of his popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in New Jersey, Rabbitt moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1968, hoping to earn a living as a songwriter and performer. He came to the attention of recording companies when he penned Elvis Presley's hit song "Kentucky Rain".

In 1975, Rabbitt signed on with Elektra Records, who had recently created a country music division. His early pieces were strongly C&W, such as "Two Dollars in the Jukebox." Later, his music began to be influenced by R&B and pop. He scored some of his biggest hits with tunes such as "Drinkin' My Baby Off My Mind" (1976), "You Don't Love Me Anymore" (1978), "I Love a Rainy Night" (1980), "Drivin' My Life Away" (1980), "Step by Step" (1981), and a duet with Crystal Gayle, "You and I" (1982) which broke over into the adult contemporar

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Eddie Rabbitt wrote hits for Elvis Presley and Ronnie Milsap, but the bulk of his notable songs were delivered via his own pop-leaning, radio-friendly records.

The rare Brooklyn-born country star, Rabbitt began playing country music as a New Jersey teenager. A voracious student of the genre in his teens, he began performing while in his twenties, moving to Nashville in 1968, the same year Roy Drusky's version of "Working My Way Up From the Bottom" became his first cut.

In his early years in Nashville, Rabbitt supplemented a meager songwriting income by taking jobs as a truck driver and soda jerk. But in 1970, Elvis Presley recorded Rabbitt's "Kentucky Rain" and took that song into the pop Top 20. In 1974, Rabbitt's "Pure Love" became Ronnie Milsap's breakthrough single and the first #1 country hit for both artist and writer. There would be no more truck-driving for Eddie Rabbitt, though he would later write about the rigors of the road in the #1 hit "Drivin' My Life Away."

Rabbitt began recording for the Elektra label in 1974, and he and frequent co-writer Even Stevens began

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Eddie Rabbitt

American country singer (1941–1998)

For the 1975 self-titled album, see Eddie Rabbitt (album).

Musical artist

Edward Thomas Rabbitt (November 27, 1941 – May 7, 1998) was an American country music singer and songwriter. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974. Later in the 1970s, Rabbitt helped to develop the crossover-influenced sound of country music prevalent in the 1980s with such hits as "Suspicions", "I Love a Rainy Night" (a number-one hit single on the Billboard Hot 100), and "Every Which Way but Loose" (the theme from the film of the same title). His duets "Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers)" with Juice Newton and "You and I" with Crystal Gayle later appeared on the soap operas Days of Our Lives and All My Children.

Early life

Rabbitt was born to Irishimmigrants Thomas Michael and Mae (née Joyce) Rabbitt in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, in 1941, and was raised in th