1 hit as a singer two years later with Drinkin' My Baby (Off My Mind).Warner's 1991 collection All Time Greatest Hits was the first CD-era compilation of Eddie Rabbitt's hit singles and, as such, it suffers from a lot of flaws common to first attempts - namely, it's way too short at ten songs, doesn't have all the hits it should, and is harmed by a narrow focus on just his Elektra recordings. He landed his first record contract in 1974 and had his first No. He began writing songs and got his break in 1970 when Presley recorded his song Kentucky Rain. In 1968, with $1,000 in his pocket and no music business contacts, he took a bus from New Jersey to Nashville. Rabbitt was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in East Orange, N.J. They lived in the Nashville suburb of Franklin. Rabbitt and his wife, Janine, had two other children, a daughter Demelza, 16, and son Tommy, 11. Timothy died in 1985, one month shy of his second birthday. In the early 1990s he criticized music videos for picturing 'a bunch of girls with nothing on and a bunch of rock 'n' rollers singing about sex.' MTV, he said at the time, 'distorted our youth mentally so that science and math are now so far away from a child's mind that anyone thinking about it is a nerd.'Īt the height of his career, Rabbitt cut back on his performances to spend more time with his son Timothy Edward, who had liver disease. He took pride in doing a clean show with no off-color humor or cursing. Rabbitt was a straight-arrow in an industry with many renegades. He will be missed,' said Fran Boyd, the academy's executive director. 'Not only was he a great entertainer, but he was a great people person as well. Rabbitt's death came 20 years after he was named top new male artist by the Los Angeles-based Academy of Country Music.

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