Hearts on Fire (Eddie Rabbitt song)

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"Hearts on Fire"
Single by Eddie Rabbitt
from the album Variations
B-side "The Girl on My Mind"
Released February 18, 1978
Genre Country
Length2:36
Label Elektra
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) David Malloy
Eddie Rabbitt singles chronology
"We Can't Go On Living Like This"
(1978)
"Hearts on Fire"
(1978)
"You Don't Love Me Anymore"
(1978)

"We Can't Go On Living Like This"
(1978)
"Hearts on Fire"
(1978)
"You Don't Love Me Anymore"
(1978)

"Hearts on Fire" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Eddie Rabbitt. It was released in February 1978 as the first single from the album Variations . The song reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1] It was written by Rabbitt, Dan Tyler and Even Stevens.

Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music and blues.

Eddie Rabbitt American country music singer-songwriter

Edward Thomas Rabbitt was an American 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" and "Every Which Way but Loose". His duets "Both to Each Other " and "You and I", with Juice Newton and Crystal Gayle respectively, later appeared on the soap operas Days of Our Lives and All My Children.

<i>Variations</i> (Eddie Rabbitt album) 1978 studio album by Eddie Rabbitt

Variations is the fourth studio album by country artist Eddie Rabbitt. It was released in 1978 under the Elektra Records label. The album produced three singles: "Hearts on Fire," which peaked at number two on the country charts, and two country number one hits: "You Don't Love Me Anymore," which also peaked at 18 on Adult Contemporary charts; and "I Just Want To Love You." "Kentucky Rain," a song co-written by the artist and originally recorded by Elvis Presley in 1970, was also included on the album.

Chart performance

Chart (1978)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 2
Canadian RPM Country Tracks9

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 279.
  2. "Eddie Rabbitt Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.