Connie Eaton

Born on 1 March 1950 in Nashville, Tennessee, Eaton died in the same city on 20 September 1999. Her father Bob performed on the Grand Ole Opry and scored a modest hit in 1950 with ‘Second Hand Heart’ before leaving the music industry. Following a period of success as a child actor, she joined Chart Records and, in collaboration with producer Cliff Williamson—who later became her husband—cut her debut sides in 1968. The first appearance on the Billboard country chart arrived in 1970 when her reading of ‘Angel Of The Morning’, already a Top 10 pop single for Merrilee Rush two years earlier, reached number 34. By 1975 she had accumulated six additional minor chart entries, among them the duets with Dave Peel that reworked Ray Charles’s 1961 pop number-one ‘Hit The Road Jack’ and offered a version of ‘It Takes Two’. That same year she moved to Dunhill Records, where ‘Lonely Men, Lonely Women’ gave her the strongest showing of her career at number 23. Her last chart single also surfaced in 1975 on ABC Records, a modest entry titled ‘If I Knew Enough To Come Out Of The Rain’.