Drivin' My Life Away

"Drivin' My Life Away"
A-side label of US single
Single by Eddie Rabbitt
from the album Horizon
B-side"Pretty Lady"
ReleasedJune 9, 1980
Recorded1980
GenreCountry rock, country pop, rockabilly
Length3:17
LabelElektra
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)David Malloy
Eddie Rabbitt singles chronology
"Gone Too Far"
(1980) 		"Drivin' My Life Away"
(1980) 		"I Love a Rainy Night"
(1980)
Alternative release
Side A of Canadian single
Side A of Canadian single

"Drivin' My Life Away" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Eddie Rabbitt. It was released in June 1980 as the first single from the album Horizon. The song was written by Rabbitt, Even Stevens and David Malloy.

Content

The song is a look into the life of a truck driver and the long periods of time they spend away from home.

Commercial performance

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. Two more crossover hits - "Step by Step" and "You and I" (the latter a duet with Crystal Gayle) - followed in 1981 and 1982.

On Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart, it was his seventh out of 17 career chart toppers, spanning from 1976 through 1990.

In 1981, "Drivin' My Life Away" was certified gold for sales of half a million units by the Recording Industry Association of America.[1] It has also sold a further 267,000 digital copies in the US since it became available for download.[2]

Uses in media

  • It was featured on the soundtrack of the 1980 movie Roadie starring Meat Loaf and Art Carney.
  • The song was covered in Kidsongs' 1987 video: What I Want to Be.
  • The song was covered in the 1987 Episode "Cup A' Joe" from The A-Team (season 3).
  • The song was featured in the 2016 film Everybody Wants Some!! at a scene which takes place at a Texas country bar.
  • In Eddie Rabbitt's 1990 country hit "Running with the Wind" he mentions the 1980 crossover hit "Drivin' My Life Away" with the following lyric: I listen to the windshield wipers go/Just like the song I used to know/I'm drivin' my life away, hey/Drivin' my life away.
  • The song is featured in the 2018 program The Americans, season 6, episode 4, during a line dancing scene.
  • The song is featured at the beginning and at the end of the 2018 film Finding Steve McQueen.

Charts

"Drivin' My Life Away" was released in 1980 as the first single from his album Horizon. It reached number one on the Hot Country Singles in 1980, and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Chart (1980) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] 100
Canadian RPM Country Tracks[4] 2
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[5] 45
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[6] 2
Dutch Top 40[7] 27
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[8] 32
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[9] 22
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 5
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[11] 1
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[12] 3
Year-end chart (1980) Rank
US Top Pop Singles (Billboard)[13] 85
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[14] 18

Rhett Akins cover

"Drivin' My Life Away"
Single by Rhett Akins
from the album Black Dog soundtrack
B-side"A Man with 18 Wheels"
ReleasedApril 1998 (1998-04)
GenreCountry
Length3:06
LabelDecca
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Frank Liddell, Greg Droman[15]
Rhett Akins singles chronology
"Better Than It Used to Be"
(1998) 		"Drivin' My Life Away"
(1998) 		"Highway Sunrise"
(2002)

In 1998, country music artist Rhett Akins recorded a cover version of this song for the soundtrack to the 1998 film Black Dog. This cover, released with Lee Ann Womack's "A Man with 18 Wheels" on the B-side, peaked at number 56 on the country music charts.[16]

Akins told Billboard that he was "apprehensive" about recording the song because of the familiarity of Rabbitt's original version. He also said that he wanted to record the song "the way I want to do it", but also that he wanted it to fit with the tone of the movie. As he did not know what the movie was going to be about, he consulted its director, Kevin Hooks, who flew to Nashville and told him the movie's plot and tone. Akins felt that the movie "was going to be high energy", so he made his rendition "a pretty rockin' track, real edgy".[17]

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price of Billboard panned Akins' cover, saying that "Akins delivery doesn't have the zip and punch of Rabbitt's energetic version, and the production sounds like a watered-down version of the original."[15]

Charts

Chart (1998) Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[18] 61
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[19] 56

References

  1. ^ "American single certifications – Eddie Rabbitt – Drivin' My Life Away". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  2. ^ Bjorke, Matt (November 1, 2016). "Top 30 Digital Singles Sales Report: November 1, 2016". Roughstock.
  3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 244. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. ^ "RPM Country Singles - Volume 33, No. 24". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  5. ^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 4701a." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  6. ^ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 0244." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  7. ^ "Eddie Rabbitt - Drivin' My Life Away" (in Dutch). TOP 40. Retrieved 2013-12-10.
  8. ^ "Eddie Rabbitt – Drivin' My Life Away" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  9. ^ "Eddie Rabbitt – Drivin' My Life Away". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  10. ^ "Eddie Rabbitt Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  11. ^ "Eddie Rabbitt Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  12. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 199.
  13. ^ "1980 Talent in Action – Year End Charts : Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 51. December 20, 1980. p. TIA-10. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  14. ^ "Best of 1980: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1980.
  15. ^ a b "Reviews". Billboard. 25 April 1998. p. 69. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  16. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  17. ^ "They're playin' my song". Billboard. 16 May 1998. p. 44. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  18. ^ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 3564." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. May 25, 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
  19. ^ "Rhett Akins Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

Works cited

  • Bronson, Fred, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits 5th ed. Billboard Publications, New York, 2003. ISBN 0-8230-7677-6.
  • Roland, Tom, The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits, Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-82-307553-2)
  • Whitburn, Joel, "Top Pop Singles: 1955-2006," 2007.

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