Four Rain Songs
Rhythm Of The Rain (The Cascades, 1962) - Keys of C & G
Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (John Fogerty, 1970) - Key of F
Rain (John Lennon & Paul McCartney, 1966) - Keys of C & G
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Hal David & Burt Bacharach, 1969) - Key of C
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Rhythm Of The Rain (John Claude Gummoe, 1962)
In 1963, it rose to #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and #1 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart. It was a top 5 hit in the United Kingdom and a #1 single in both Ireland and Canada. Billboard ranked the record as the #4 song of 1963. In 1999 BMI listed the song as the 9th most performed song on radio/TV in the 20th century.
The song arrangement features distinctive use of a celesta which has a sound similar to that of the glockenspiel, but with a much softer and more subtle timbre, which gave the instrument its name, celeste, meaning "heavenly" in French. One of the best-known works that uses the celesta is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from The Nutcracker.
Rhythm of the Rain, Wikipedia; Celesta, Wikipedia.
Rhythm Of The Rain by The Cascades (1962)
Rhythm Of The Rain by Dan Fogelberg (Official music video, 1990)
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Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (John Fogerty, 1970)
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" is a song written by John Fogerty and released as a single in 1971 from the Creedence Clearwater Revival album "Pendulum" (1970). The song reached #1 in Canada, #8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and #36 in the UK.
there has been a lot of speculations about the meaning of the song, but Fogerty has said it is about rising tension within CCR and the imminent departure of his brother Tom from the band. Although the members of CCR were rich and famous, they were also depressed and unhappy; thus the line "Have you ever seen the rain, coming down on a sunny day?". The band split up in October the following year after the release of the album Mardi Gras.
In a literal sense the song describes a sunshower such in the lyric "It'll rain a sunny day" and the chorus "have you ever seen the rain comin' down on a sunny day?". These events are particularly common in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, but less common in other parts of the country, due to localized atmospheric wind shear effects. In Southern regional dialect, there is even a term for it: "the devil beating his wife". Have You Ever Seen the Rain?, Wikipedia
Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1970)
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Rain (John Lennon & Paul McCartney, 1966) Keys of C & G
"Rain" was released in 1966 as the B-side of their "Paperback Writer" single. Both songs were recorded during the sessions for Revolver, although neither appear on that album. "Rain" was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. The inspiration for "Rain" the band's arrival in Sydney, Australia, which was marked by rain and poor weather. Lennon said, "I've never seen rain as hard as that, except in Tahiti", and later explained that "Rain" was "about people moaning about the weather all the time".
Ringo Starr considered "Rain" his best recorded drum performance. Three promotional films were created for the song that are considered among the early precursors of music videos. Rain (Beatles song), Wikipedia
Rain by The Beatles (1970)
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Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Hal David & Burt Bacharach, 1969) - Key of C
Written for the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," it won an Oscar for Best Original Song. The song was recorded by B. J. Thomas reached No. 1 on charts in the United States, Canada, Norway and reached No. 38 in the UK Singles Chart. It was the first American No. 1 hit of the 1970s.
In 2004, it finished at number 23 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. In 2008, the single was ranked 85th on Billboard's Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs and placed 95th in the 55th Anniversary edition of the All-Time Hot 100 list in 2013. Billboard Magazine also ranked the song 15th on its Top 50 Movie Songs of All Time list in 2014.
On December 3, 2013, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced that the single would be inducted into the 2014 Grammy Hall Of Fame.
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, Wikipedia
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head by B. J. Thomas (1969) from the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
The Bicycle Scene from the movie
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