However, many of today's listeners of classic country radio might not know that Eddie Rabbitt's "Every Which Way But Loose" was a soundtrack to a Clint Eastwood film of the same name about a trucker's road trip with an orangutan named Clyde.
Rabbit's crossover smash was the first of his singles to hold the top spot for more than just one week. But it was Dorff and Brown's backstory that is the true unbelievable element of its history.
According to The Tennessean, Dorff said the song was written in a hurry, as Eastwood didn't like the original tune presented to him for the movie's soundtrack. "Another very big artist had written a song called 'Every Which Way But Loose' for the film. But Clint did not like it and so he threw it out."
"I called back two seconds later, and I said, 'No, we gotta do this now, and I've got to play this for Eastwood tomorrow." I said, " 'Every Which Way But Loose.' Does that mean anything to you?"
The classic Rabbitt tune was named one of the 70s Best Country Songs by UDiscover Music. The website wrote, "The theme to Clint Eastwood’s interspecies comedy of the same name, this Eddie Rabbitt song shows how loose the definition of country music often is: save for the steel guitar, the sweeping strings and crescendoing chorus evoke Elton John or Harry Nilsson more than Nashville."
In 2018, Blake Shelton recorded a cover of "Every Which Way But Loose" as part of his "Friends and Heroes Sessions."
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