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04 June 2007
It's Raining Jonmc A 2-hour (if my internet provider lets me) set of RAIN songs from the last 50+ years, some you've never heard, some you'll wish you never heard again. Dedicated to everybody back east caught in the rain today...
Here's what you WOULD have heard in the first half hour:
Glenn Yarborough - Baby The Rain Must Fall (2:18)
Milli Vanilli - Blame It On The Rain (4:18)
Melanie - Candles In The Rain (5:21)
Everly Brothers - Crying In The Rain (1:59)
Serendipity Singers - Don't Let The Rain Come Down (2:36)
Led Zeppelin - Fool In The Rain (6:12)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain (2:40)
Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again (5:04)
You can't say I didn't warn you: "some you've never heard, some you'll wish you never heard again."
If you clicked in right now, you'd be getting an earful of Barry Manilow's hyper-saccharine "Made It Thought the Rain". No, I don't know where the Manilow mp3s came from, must've been a virus.
The Second Half Hour:
Eddie Rabbitt - I Love A Rainy Night (3:07)
Barry Manilow - I Made It Through The Rain (4:23)
Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain (2:53)
Phil Collins - I Wish It Would Rain Down (5:29)
Basil Wolverton (from 365 Days Project Year One) - I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (3:32)
Carole King - It Might As Welll Rain Until September (2:24)
Albert Hammond - It Never Rains In Southern California (3:53)
Weather Girls - It's Raining Men (3:29)
David Gray - January Rain (2:43)
And there's more!
Johnnie Ray - Just Walking in the Rain (2:37)
Billy Myers - Kiss the Rain (4:07)
Neil Sedaka - Laughter In The Rain (2:48)
Eric Clapton - Let It Rain (5:03)
Ken Nordine's Word Jazz - Looks Like It’s Going to Rain (3:31)
Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain (5:01)
Thomas Dolby - Mulu The Rain Forest (4:45)
The rain just keeps on coming!
Blind Melon - No Rain (3:37)
The Cult - Rain (3:58)
The Be Good Tanyas - Rain And Snow (3:59)
Blue Mountain - Rain and Snow (3:43) (yes, two versions of the same song)
The Alarm - Rain In The Summertime (4:02)
Cowsills - The Rain, The Park & Other Things (2:59)
Dee Clark - Raindrops (2:48)
Gordon Lightfoot - Rainy Day People (2:49)
Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (4:36)
So, in high school, the title of this song was pretty much agreed upon my all of my peers to mean marijuana cigarettes. Does anyone else have that memory?
and this may not exhaust the subject, but it certainly has it breathing heavily:
Cascades - Rhythm Of The Rain (2:30)
Ronnie Milsap - Smokey Mountain Rain (3:44)
Belinda Carlisle - Summer Rain (4:11)
Madness - The Sun And The Rain (3:30)
Berri - Sunshine After the Rain (3:27)
That's all from Wendell Wadio, broadcasting Live but not Well from beautiful Cyst Valley, California, where it is currently 71 degrees and sunny. To steal the sign-off from one of my all-time favorite DJs you never heard of: Don't do anything I wouldn't do twice!
Considering the Top 40 cruft in my directories, I am shocked and humiliated that I have neither "Kentucky Rain" nor "Rainy Night in Georgia", both of which I love more than 75% of what I played.
*hangs head in shame*