Country music is commonly associated with the southern United States. However, one of the genre’s most influential figures of the 1970s and 1980s hailed from the East Coast. Raised in New Jersey, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On this day in 1981, Eddie Rabbitt’s “I Love a Rainy Night” climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100—becoming the biggest ...

Like many successful performers, Eddie Rabbitt got his start as a songwriting. After penning tracks like Elvis Presley’s “Kentucky Rain” and Ronnie Milsap’s No. 1 hit “Pure Love”, Rabbitt inked a deal ...

Few songs manage to feel as timeless as a true country love classic, but one 1982 duet has done exactly that. Decades later, ...

A version of this story was originally published in 2022. Eddie Rabbitt grew up in East Orange and became a country music superstar in Nashville, but never stopped being a “Jersey Boy.” One of his ...

The first time I heard the term “yacht rock” was in, of all things, a New York Times podcast based on “The 1619 Project.” The episode, part of an enterprise about the influence of African Americans on ...

Edward Thomas "Eddie" Rabbitt was an American country music singer and songwriter. Beginning as a songwriter in the late 1960s, he began a solo career in the mid-70s, being among the first to make ...

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On this day in 1981, Eddie Rabbitt’s “I Love a Rainy Night” climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100—becoming the biggest crossover hit of his career. But the song wasn’t new. In fact, it had been ...