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Sitting in the diner I heard I Love A Rainy Night by Eddie Rabbit on the 80's satellite channel. This song was criticized at the time as being phony pop country. Decades later as country has declined and there are jabronies like Shaboozy and Beyonce out there, a pop country song like Eddie Rabbit sounds fine.
 
Funny that those who criticized Eddie for being pop would never say such a thing about Dolly. But I Love a Rainy Night went to #1 around the same time as Dolly's crossover hit 9 To 5. They both had success making crossover music that got used in movies. Yet Dolly is revered and Eddie is not.
 
TheBigA said:
Funny that those who criticized Eddie for being pop would never say such a thing about Dolly. But I Love a Rainy Night went to #1 around the same time as Dolly's crossover hit 9 To 5. They both had success making crossover music that got used in movies. Yet Dolly is revered and Eddie is not.
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"9 To 5" was annoying pop noise to my ears, nothing country about it but Dolly's accent. Rabbitt's song was inoffensive radio fodder.
 
Welcome to the circle of Country. What gets criticized as "not country" at its release can eventually become hailed as a classic. It was true of the new sound in the 1950s that included drums and -gasp- electric guitars, the countrypolitan of the late 60s and early 70s, to the Urban Cowboy crossovers... and now you can hear Shania Twain "Any Man Of Mine," widely derided as "too pop" upon its release, on Classic Country stations.

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This brings me to my big question. Do any of you here ever find Mason Ramsey on the radio at all? His first full album was released on September 20th, but the material sounds like stuff that would've been all over the radio in the 1960s.

God bless you and him always!!!

Holly (a girl who only loves him more every day)

P.S. To me, his voice should be right there with everyone who is on the radio.
 
I liked country when it was Eddie Rabbitt and Dolly Parton. And some years ago both songs mentioned above ended up on America's Best Music. Not sure how.
 


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