Shirley Eikhard, the singer-songwriter who provided songs for Cher, Emmylou Harris, Anne Murray, Chet Atkins and located lasting fame penning Bonnie Raitt’s Grammy-winning 1991 hit “One thing to Discuss About,” has died. She was 67.
Eikhard died Thursday at Headwaters Well being Care Centre in Orangeville, Ontario, resulting from issues from most cancers, stated publicist Eric Alper.
The blues-rock smash hit “One thing to Discuss About” was written in 1985 and Eikhard had provided it to Murray and different artists, who all declined to file it. Then years later Raitt left a message on Eikhard’s cellphone saying she she’d simply recorded it. Raitt stated later she’d found the tune on a demo Eikhard had despatched and admired it.
The tune was the primary single from Raitt’s 1991 album Luck of the Draw and spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Scorching 100, peaking at No. 5. It might win Raitt one of the best pop vocal efficiency on the 1992 Grammy Awards and was additionally nominated within the file of the yr class.
On Grammy night time, Raitt made positive to thank Eikhard and he or she turned to Twitter after Eikhard’s dying to say she was “deeply saddened,” writing “I can be endlessly grateful for our lovely connection and friendship.”
Eikhard earned Juno Awards in 1973 and 1974 for finest nation feminine artist and he or she received a number of BMI Awards. She was inducted into the Canadian Songwriter’s Corridor of Fame in October 2020. Her most up-to-date album was 2021′s On My Solution to You.
Throughout her profession, Eikhard launched 18 full-length albums between 1972 to 2021 and taught herself to play guitar, piano, bass, drums, percussion, chromatic harmonica, sax, banjo and mandolin.
At age 15, Eikhard’s tune “It Takes Time” was recorded by nation singer Murray in 1971, and later turned a success in her native Canada. Eikhard launched her self-titled debut album the next yr in 1972. The title monitor for Atkins’ forty first studio album, “Pickin’ My Means” was one in all Eikhard’s earliest successes.
She additionally crafted with Cher the frenetic dance monitor “Lovers Endlessly” for the 1994 movie Interview With the Vampire, however it didn’t make the ultimate soundtrack minimize. They collaborated once more on “Born With the Starvation,” from Cher’s 2000 album, Not.com.mercial.
Eikhard sang the theme tune for Stanley Kramer’s 1976 film The Domino Precept starring Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen, in addition to the theme tune for The Ardour of Ayn Rand in 2000.
