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"I Love a Rainy Night" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Eddie Rabbitt. It was released in November 1980 as the second single from his album Horizon . It reached number one on the Hot Country Singles , [ 3 ] Billboard Hot 100 , and Adult Contemporary Singles [ 4 ] charts in early 1981.
The other single, "I Love a Rainy Night" reached number one on all three charts, the only single in Rabbitt's career to ever do so. In 2009, the album was released in CD format. In 2009, the album was released in CD format.
Rabbitt's next album, Horizon, reached platinum status and contained the biggest crossover hits of his career, "I Love a Rainy Night" and "Drivin' My Life Away." Rabbitt developed "Rainy Night" from a song fragment he penned during a 1960s thunderstorm.
Although many of Rabbitt's successful songs were country-pop material, "Drivin' My Life Away" began his peak popularity as a crossover artist. The song peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and set the stage for his biggest career hit: "I Love a Rainy Night," which reached the top on the country, Hot 100 and adult contemporary charts in early 1981.
"I Love a Rainy Night" 1 1 1 6 4 11 — 8 53 US: Gold [15] 1981 "Step by Step" 1 5 3 83 1 23 2 25 — Step by Step "Someone Could Lose a Heart Tonight" 1 15 10 — 4 — — — — 1982 "I Don't Know Where to Start" 2 35 9 — 13 — — — — "You and I" (with Crystal Gayle) 1 7 2 81 1 35 1 — 81 Radio Romance: 1983 "You Can't Run from ...
It was released eight months before his death. It included six new songs and six re-recordings of past hits including "I Love a Rainy Night" and "Drivin' My Life Away" from Horizon, "On Second Thought" and "American Boy" from Jersey Boy, "Two Dollars in the Jukebox" from Rocky Mountain Music and "Suspicions" from Loveline.
Eddie Rabbitt's "I Love a Rainy Night" topped the country chart in the issue of Billboard dated January 10, and was replaced the following week by Dolly Parton's "9 to 5". On the Hot 100, Parton's song reached the top in the issue dated February 21, [ 16 ] was replaced by Rabbitt's song the following week, [ 17 ] but then returned to the top ...
I Just Want to Love You; I Love a Rainy Night; I Should Have Married You; I Wanna Dance with You (song) It's Lonely Out Tonite; K. Kentucky Rain; O. On Second Thought; P.