Eaton was a native of Nashville, Tennessee and began her
recording career as a teenager in 1968, recording for Chart Records. This
record label was owned by Slim Williamson and became famous thanks to Lynn
Anderson who had been churning out hits there since 1966. Prior to beginning
her recording career, Eaton had been a runner up in a "Miss Nashville"
beauty contest
None among Connie’s first four singles managed to dent
the national Country charts but she did sufficiently well on a local/regional
basis that Williamson gave her with her her first LP titled "I've Got A
Life To Live" (Chart CHS-1020) which emerged in Oct 1969. Then came her
cover of the Merilee Rush 1968 Pop hit, Angel Of The Morning, which reached #
34 in Feb-March as Chart 5048 b/w One Time Too Many and earned her a nomination
for Billboard's Most Promising Female Vocalist Award.
After a follow-up duet with Tony Martin failed, another
duet, this time with Dave Peel and doing a cover of Ray Charles' immortal Hit
The Road Jack, reached # 44 in May-June 1970 followed by two more 1970 failures before
another duet with Peel, a cover of the Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston 1967 hit,
It Takes Two, topped out at # 56 in November. Around this same time her 2nd album was
released pairing her with Peel and titled “Hit The Road, Jack” in which they
are backed by guitarists Billy Sanford, Wayne Moss and Pete Wade, steel
guitarist Lloyd Green, bassist Henry Strzelecki, banjo player Bobby Thompson,
pianist Hargus ‘Pig’ Robbins and drummers Buddy Harman and Jerry Carrigan.
In Feb 1971 she then had Sing A Happy Song peak at # 74, followed in Sept-Oct by the # 56 Don't Hang No Halos On Me. While this was charting her 3rd album came out titled “Something Special”. After giving birth to a daughter in 1972 (she had married Slim Williamson's son Cliff).
She resurfaced in 1975 with Dunhill/ABC where she would have her greatest single hit when Lonely Men, Lonely Women rose to # 23 in the Jan-March stretch of 1975, followed in June by the # 93 If I Knew Enough To Come Out Of The Rain which was her last nationally charting single. In September, ABC released her last LP, the eponymous "Connie Eaton" (ABC 906).
By the end of the 1970s Connie Eaton had left the music
scene and sadly, after struggling with manic depression, she passed away on
September 30, 1999 following a battle with cancer at age 49.
Connie Eaton's daughter Cortney Tidwell is a recording
artist in her own right.
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For Connie Eaton Albums go her:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/DeoG2pCd
Connie Eaton (1975)
Hit The Road Jack (1970)
I've Got Life To Live (1969)
Something Special (1971)
all @320k
Thanks to Champ @ Loadsamusic Forum for active link.
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