Isn't there a song (possibly from the '70s, although I hesitate to speculate since I've been wrong twice on this thread) called "Rainy-Day People"?

Indeed there was, Eric....I mentioned it already in post #11.....Rainy Day People by Gordon Lightfoot. Unless there is another song by the same title from that era.

Also, I Think it's Going to Rain Today by Randy Newman and covered by several other singers.

A xouple of rain songs that bring up different feelings:

"Laughter in the Rain" by Neil Sedaka, a good song for spending with someone you love

"I Can't Stand The Rain" by Tina Turner, a rain song that makes you not want to think about those you lost in love

"Rain" by Madonna, about the loss of someone you loved

"Rainy Days and Mondays" by The Carpenters, great classic song

"It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls, one of those songs you love to hear on the dance floor

I'm Only Happy When It Rains, Garbage

There's also Dylan "Rainy Day Women, etc" - they stone the hell out of you. There are some others but that's the one that's probably most well-known?

Also "Box of Rain" by the Grateful Dead.

Lest I forget. There is also that classic from the 90s band Nelson called "After the Rain".

Continuing on my earlier post...other rain songs on the precious ipod:

Asian rain:

Aishu No Rain Rain - Cherish
Rainy Day - Hamasaki Ayumi
Ice Rain - Kudo Shizuka
Arashi no Ato (After the Sotrm) - Four Leaves
What Rain Can Do To Love - Sugiyama Kiyotaka
Ame No Bojo - Yashiro Aki
Ame - Koyanagi Rumiko
Rainy Day - Imai Miki
Like A Hard Rain - Aikawa Nanase
Rain - David Tao

Euro Rain:
Crying in the Rain -A-Ha
Sunshine in the Rain - Bodies Without Organs

And thanks to Kick (and I'm surprised you didn't meniton this one)
When The Rain Is Falling Down- South African 2 Idol Anke Pietrangeli

Electronic Lounge Rain

Rainsong - Mosquitos
Summer Rain - Etro Anime

Rain Dance:
Come Rain Come Shine - Jen Cuenta
Rain Rain - Cher

Some songs that mention RAIN:

Hilary Duff's "Come Clean" and Everything But the Girl's "Missing".

silly rabbit! ausmus, how can you forget houston-born oran "juice" jones' "the rain"?

you messin' with the juice!!!

Didn't Milli Vanilli have one as well? Something like Blame it on the Rain?

Two classic songs mentioning rain from Broadway musicals:
"Don't Rain on My Parade" — Funny Girl
"The Rain in Spain" — My Fair Lady

For my $ the best of the musicals lot (altho' it didn't play B'way) is
Raining in My Heart -- Bernadette Peters from Dames at Sea (book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by Jim Wise)

But I think putting Dylan's Rainy Day Women (#12 & 35) next to Gloria's It's Raining Men is the perfect pairing.

No Rain - Blind Melon

Has nobody mentioned Purple Rain (Prince)? A great song.

A beautiful mushy ballad from the early 90's:



Come In Out Of The Rain by Wendy Moten

Gary Allan:
Songs About Rain


Great song for seduction!

I haven't seen this one listed here yet: "I Wish It Would Rain" by Nanci Griffith. From her album Little Love Affairs, 1988, MCA.

Not well known, but man -- well worth hunting down. Griffith rules.

Well, given the weather here for the last month (though most of this weekend has be wonderful), this is the perfect thread to resurrect. However, I don't think anyone mentioned the following:

"Here's That Rainy Day" by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke.

Recorded by innumerable people, including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson and many others.

And it has a gay connection... Johnny Carson and gay-fave Better Midler sang it on the next to last Tonight Show before he retired.

I did a rain CD a few years ago... I Started it with
Bad Weather (an obsure Supremes song) followed by Clouds by Chaka Khan and then went on to take from songs about rain from various genres and ended with Somewhere Over The Rainbow by Izzy...I gave that CD to a few people and they loved it.

Imterestingly I was gonna post this in the MJ thread but thought this one was more suitable when I saw the title.

This song isn't one that is about rain so much as one that invoked rain when I first heard it. This vid of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" reminds me that, even though the sun was shining and the sky was cloudless, I immediately had the feeling of a pleasant rain shower - a kind of relief or release - which is perhaps what Jackson felt when he sang it.

The songs universality was made plain by Matt Giraud's seamless translation to a lower, soulful register more reminiscent of country music. I missed that performance during Idol, but hearing it now, his version gives rise to an image more like an oncoming righteous summer storm than a gentle rainshower.

Credit where credit is due: MJ's Human Nature was the brainchild of music writer Steve Pocaro and lyricist John Bettis. (And I got that same sense of universality when Bucky Covington translated Stevie wonders Superstition.) But the greatest evocation of water or rain that I have ever heard is Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte: Soave sia il vento from Così.

It Will Rain - Bruno Mars

Set Fire to the Rain - Adele

Annie Lennox's "Here Comes the Rain Again."

Other rain-related songs:
Singin' in the Rain.
Rainy Days and Mondays.
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

I loved, loved, loved Rain by The Cult.

Oh my, it brings back those middle school memories... the good ones!

Madonna - Rain. Very appeasing and pleasant to listen... oh, and I forgot... Evanescence - Listen to the Rain.