I Love a Rainy Night
Eddie Rabbitt
1981
Earliest retained annual association for this catalog identity; original release year not independently established.
Reported release: 1980
Reported release: 1980Date needs verification
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Inspired by a thunderstorm, Rabbitt wrote this song over several years.
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Sources for this information
Owner-supplied 1981.html, song-list position 9
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Billboard year-end 1981 table (Wikipedia transcription)
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