TORONTO - Canadian singer-songwriter Shirley Eikhard was decades into a successful music career when Bonnie Raitt recorded her flirty track “Something to Talk About,” turning it into a massive ...

She had first pitched the bluesy Something to Talk About in the mid 1980s to Ms. Murray, the Snowbird superstar who had a Canadian hit with Ms. Eikhard’s country-favoured It Takes Time in 1971.