Horizon (Eddie Rabbitt album)

Horizon

Studio album by Eddie Rabbitt

Released

June 20, 1980

Recorded

at Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado

Eddie Rabbitt chronology

Loveline
(1979)

Horizon
(1980)

Step by Step
(1981)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Horizon is the sixth studio album of country artist Eddie Rabbitt. It was released in 1980 under the Elektra Records label. The album produced two singles, both of which reached number one on country charts. The lead-off single "Drivin' My Life Away" reached number 5 on the Billboard 100 and 9 the Adult Contemporary chart. 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.

Horizon reached number one on country album charts and ultimately reached platinum status. Allmusic gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5 and praised the tracks on side one for their "sun-inspired, guitar-based productions, heavy on the echo" but described second side as being "a bit ballad-heavy." The review described the album as a "rockabilly release". In 2009, the full album was released in CD format.

The track "747" on this album is not the same as the much later Lady Antebellum version of the track of the same title for their 2014 album also entitled 747.

Track listing

"I Love a Rainy Night" (David Malloy, Eddie Rabbitt, Even Stevens) - 3:11
"747" (Rabbitt) - 3:07
"Drivin' My Life Away" (Malloy, Rabbitt, Stevens) - 3:14
"Short Road to Love" (Rabbitt, Stevens) - 2:37
"Rockin' with My Baby" (Malloy, Rabbitt, Stevens) - 2:31
"I Need to Fall in Love Again" (Paul Overstreet, Stevens) - 2:31
"So Deep in Your Love" (Malloy, Rabbitt, Stevens) - 3:25
"What Will I Write" (Malloy, Rabbitt, Stevens) - 3:01
"Pretty Lady" (Malloy, Rabbitt, Stevens) - 3:28
"Just the Way It Is" (Rabbitt, Stevens) - 3:45

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1980)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	19
Canadian RPM Country Albums	5

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
Year	Single	US Country	US	US AC	CAN Country	CAN	CAN AC
1980	"Drivin' My Life Away"	1	5	3	2	45	2
1980	"I Love a Rainy Night"	1	1	1	4	11	—

Personnel

As listed in liner notes^[2]

Don Barrett - bass guitar
Larry Byrom - electric guitar
Alan Feingold - piano, keyboards
Sherry Grooms - background vocals
David Hungate - bass guitar
Randy McCormick - keyboards, synthesizer
David Malloy - background vocals
Farrell Morris - percussion
Paul Overstreet - background vocals
Norbert Putnam - bass guitar
Eddie Rabbitt - lead vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar
James Stroud - drums, percussion

String arrangements by Randy McCormick and Larry Muhoberac

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Horizon (LP). Eddie Rabbitt. Elektra Records. 1980. 6E-276.

Roland, Tom. Horizon, Allmusic.

Preceded by Urban Cowboy by Various Artists 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs by Dolly Parton	Top Country Albums number-one album September 13, 1980 April 25, 1981	Succeeded by Urban Cowboy by Various Artists Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Willie Nelson

Eddie Rabbitt

Studio albums	Eddie Rabbitt Rocky Mountain Music Rabbitt Variations Loveline Horizon Step by Step Radio Romance The Best Year of My Life Rabbitt Trax I Wanna Dance with You Jersey Boy Ten Rounds Beatin' the Odds Songs from Rabbittland

Notable singles	"Drinkin' My Baby (Off My Mind)" "Rocky Mountain Music" "Two Dollars in the Jukebox" "I Can't Help Myself" "We Can't Go On Living Like This" "Hearts on Fire" "You Don't Love Me Anymore" "I Just Want to Love You" "Every Which Way But Loose" "Suspicions" "Pour Me Another Tequila" "Gone Too Far" "Drivin' My Life Away" "I Love a Rainy Night" "Step by Step" "Someone Could Lose a Heart Tonight" "I Don't Know Where to Start" "You and I" (with Crystal Gayle) "You Can't Run from Love" "You Put the Beat in My Heart" "Nothing Like Falling in Love" "B-B-B-Burnin' Up with Love" "The Best Year of My Life" "Warning Sign" "She's Comin' Back to Say Goodbye" "A World Without Love" "Repetitive Regret" "Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers)" (with Juice Newton) "Gotta Have You" "I Wanna Dance with You" "The Wanderer" "We Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right" "That's Why I Fell in Love with You" "On Second Thought" "Runnin' with the Wind" "It's Lonely Out Tonite" "American Boy"

Related articles	Discography Elektra Records Warner Bros. Records RCA Records Capitol Records "Kentucky Rain" "Pure Love"

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