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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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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 was one of the unsung pop-hybrid singer-songwriters who moved country music closer to a fusion with the pop and rock genres. The most successful country performer during the Urban Cowboy years, with a string of chart-topping singles, gold and platinum albums and sold-out tours, he shared a rare gift with Neil Diamond: the ability to make middle-of-the-road songs sound exciting. Like Diamond, he first gained prominence as a writer, Elvis’ Kentucky Rain and Ronnie Milsap’s Pure Love, being just two successful examples. Rabbitt’s songs profess love and romance as the common denominator and in the hits Suspicions, On Second Thought and I Love A Rainy Night he displayed a strong melodic sense with plenty of creative ideas to go with it. The classic honky-tonker, Two Dollars In The Jukebox, is one of those commercial jingles that tingles in your mind, a powerful mix of country music roots with a progressive approach. In comparison to Waylon, Willie, Hank Jnr., and his other contemporaries, Eddie’s songs were more gentle. He preferred a smooth, image-projecting style to the