On it like a mouse on rice.

wendell, how long are you playing it for? I will try to tune in for a while.

The official MetaChat timeslot upper limit is two hours, so I'll be on 'til 8PM Pacific. But I do have nearly 4 hours of snow, rain and sun, and I'm not through putting it all together, so this will be Part 1 or 2 or 3...

I haven't done much to get the word out, but I think we're experimenting with raising the official timeslot upper limit to three hours.

(Also, ooh, ooh, the show's about to start. Imagine me saying 'ooh ooh' like Joe E. Ross.)

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I was hoping to include some cute retro drop-ins between songs, but I had to extract short bits out of a long video file here, and after a couple Regularly Scheduled Technical Difficulties, I didn't have the time to do it. Oh, well, maybe next week during "Everybody Sings About the Weather, Part 2".

Show's on... and, by the way, not everyone is singing, there are a couple instrumental pieces and a spoken word bit...

I think it's in P.J. O'Rourke's memoir of his hippie years that he mentions working for an 'underground' alt-weekly that decided to have an actual Weatherman doing a weather column. As I recall, the guy wore a mask, and said things like 'There's a shitstorm brewin'.'

Also, I love that tears-as-rain metaphor. I wonder if there are enough songs to work up a playlist along those lines.

Fats Domino - Ain't That A Shame
The Everly Brothers - Cryin' In The Rain
Slim Harpo - Rainin' In My Heart
The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain
Dee Clark - Raindrops

Well, it's a start, anyway.

On preview: holy crap, wendell's playing that Everly Brothers song!

And I played the Dee Clark song too... and would've done the Temptations too, but the file was fubar'ed.

Yeah, but I only included the Dee Clark song because you were playing it. I don't think I've ever heard of Dee Clark.

(I feel like there are still some more examples, though. Also, remind me to send you that Temptations song sometime.)

wendell thanks for the radio! A thought about drumming up audience--I sometimes don't notice the radio posts until after the show goes dark. Maybe something to give them a touch more prominence? Another color maybe? (Yes I know I should just look at the radio thingy in the right sidebar. I'm lazy and ADD like that.)

"fubar'ed". It sounds right, but FUBAR is a fine word on its own. Isn't it ok just to say, "the file was fubar"? Sorry to be pedantic but it caught my eye.

*pages It's Raining Florence Henderson... IRFH to the musical weather thread...*

What you probably missed during "Everybody Sings About the Weather, Part One":

1. Jerry Douglas - Snow's First Fall (4:35)
2. Townes Van Zandt - Snowin' on Raton (3:51)
3. Emmylou Harris - Roses in the Snow (2:37)
4. Donald Fagan - Snowbound (6:58)
5. Sam Bush - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (4:10)
6. Vaughn Monroe - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (3:08)
7. Bob Rivers - Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow! (2:28)
8. Frank Zappa - Don`t Eat The Yellow Snow (2:07)
9. Blue Mountain - Rain and Snow (3:43)
10. Basil Wolverton - I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (3:32)
11. Albert Hammond - It Never Rains In Southern California (3:53)
12. The Cult - Rain (3:58)
13. Belinda Carlisle - Summer Rain (4:11)
14. Eddie Rabbitt - I Love A Rainy Night (3:07)
15. Brook Benton - Rainy Night In Georgia (3:52)
16. Ronnie Milsap - Smokey Mountain Rain (3:44)
17. Weather Girls - It's Raining Men (3:29)
18. Dee Clark - Raindrops (2:48)
19. Everly Brothers - Crying In The Rain (1:59)
20. Carole King - It Might As Welll Rain Until September (2:24)
21. The Alarm - Rain In The Summertime (4:02)
22. Cascades - Rhythm Of The Rain (2:30)
23. Cowsills - The Rain, The Park & Other Things (2:59)
24. Gordon Lightfoot - Rainy Day People (2:49)
25. Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (4:36)
26. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain (2:40)
27. Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again (5:04)
28. B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (3:01)
29. Serendipity Singers - Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man) (2:46)
30. Glenn Yarborough - Baby The Rain Must Fall (2:15)
31. Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain (5:01)
32. Eruption - I Can't Stand the Rain (3:05)
33. Ken Nordine - Looks Like It’s Going to Rain (3:31)
34. Led Zeppelin - Fool In The Rain (6:12)

Just you wait for Part Two, when I finally get into Sunshine songs, Hot and Cold songs, Wind and Storm songs...

Wow, wendell. The weather theme is working out wonderfully.