Last week’s rainy weather reminded me of the recent day when I heard Clint Black sing “Like the Rain,” and found myself pondering how many songs over the years have featured weather as a key component for the song.
Weather in music seems to cross genres effortlessly. Consider Dan Fogelberg’s classic “Same Old Auld Lang Syne” or the Allman Brothers’ “Bad Rain” or the Eurythmics’ “Here Comes the Rain Again” — or even The Beatles and “Here Comes the Sun.”
What are some of your favorite songs that feature weather as a key component of the story line?
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Eddie Rabbit – “I Love a Rainy Night”
The great classic “Stormy Monday” which is usually a tame song, but when done by Lee Michaels from the early 70’s, he just wails on his Hammond B-3 Organ, and it just rocks to all get up.
Then there is the classic pre-beatles song “Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain” by the Cascades, and of course that mellow favorite by Brook Benton………”A Rainy Night in Georgia.”
Don’t Let the Sun Catch you Crying; Gerry & the Pacemakers
How I wish it would Rain; The Temptations
You are my sunshine
my only sunshine
You make me happy………various artists
Carpenters – Rainy Days and Mondays
Riders on the storm.. By the doors
AC/DC…Thunderstruck.
Kansas…Dust in the Wind
Garth Brooks….The Thunder Rolls
BJ Thomas’
“Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head”