Warning Sign (song)

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"Warning Sign"
Single by Eddie Rabbitt
from the album The Best Year of My Life
B-side "Go to Sleep Big Bertha"
Released February 23, 1985
Genre Country
Length3:14
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s)
  • Eddie Rabbitt
  • Even Stevens
Producer(s)
Eddie Rabbitt singles chronology
"The Best Year of My Life"
(1984)
"Warning Sign"
(1985)
"She's Comin' Back to Say Goodbye"
(1985)

"The Best Year of My Life"
(1984)
"Warning Sign"
(1985)
"She's Comin' Back to Say Goodbye"
(1985)

"Warning Sign" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Eddie Rabbitt. It was released in February 1985 as the third single from the album The Best Year of My Life . The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1] It was written by Rabbitt 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>The Best Year of My Life</i> 1984 studio album by Eddie Rabbitt

The Best Year of My Life is the ninth studio album of country artist Eddie Rabbitt. It was released in 1984 under the Warner Bros. Records label, but the rights to the album have since been sold to Liberty Records. The album marked the end of Rabbitt's crossover-success. Four singles were released from the album including "B-B-B-Burnin' Up With Love", which peaked at No. 3 on country charts, the title track, which rose to No. 1, "Warning Sign", which charted at No. 4 and "She's Comin' Back to Say Goodbye", which peaked at No. 6. The album itself ranked No. 22 on the country albums chart.

Chart performance

Chart (1985)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks4
Canadian RPM Country Tracks3

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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.