Rain songs

Cafe Society
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Since it won’t stop raining, I decided to put together a “rain” playlist.

Allman Brothers - “Stormy Monday” (also Cream)
Beatles - “Rain”, “Fixing a Hole”
Tab Benoit - “Rainy Day Blues”
Cake - “It’s Coming Down”
Commitments - “I Can’t Stand The Rain”
Creedence - “Who’ll Stop The Rain”
Derek Trucks Band - “Down In The Flood”
Dire Straits - “It Never Rains”
Fairport Convention - “Eastern Rain”
Peter Gabriel - “Red Rain”
Slim Harpo - “Rainin’ In My Heart” and “Still Rainin’ In My Heart”
Led Zeppelin - “When The Levee Breaks”, “The Rain Song”, “Fool In The Rain”
Morphine - “You Look Like Rain”
Old 97s - “Blinding Sheets of Rain”
Police - “Shadows In The Rain”
Bonnie Raitt - “Storm Warning”
George Thorogood - “The Sky Is Crying”
Traffic - “Rainmaker”
Jeff Tweedy - “Let’s Go Rain”
Uncle Tupelo - “High Water”
Stevie Ray Vaughan - “Texas Flood”
Lucinda Williams - “It’s Gonna Rain”

What else ya got?

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The Unicorn, by the Irish Rovers

Rainy Day People, Gordon Lightfoot

Taxi, Harry Chapin

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Doors. Riders on the storm.

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“It Never Rains In Southern California” --Albert Hammond

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Cowboy Junkies, “Southern Rain”

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B.J.Thomas - Raindrops keep falling on my head

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“Purple Rain”–Prince

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Current 93: When the May Rain Comes

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Oran ‘Juice’ Jones, “The Rain”

My first impulse was to run up on you
Do a Rambo
Was about to jam flat-blast both of you
But I didn’t want to mess up this thirty-seven hundred dollar lynx coat
So instead… I chilled

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Project Pitchfork - Rain
Switchblade Symphony - Rain
The Cult - Rain
Garbage - Only Happy when it Rains
The Sisters of Mercy - Rain from Heaven
Hungry Lucy - Rainfall

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Peter, Paul And Mary-It’s Raining

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Tones on Tail: Rain

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In the Rain by The Dramatics
Walkin’ in the Rain with the One I Love by Love Unlimited

Don’t know if you’re interested in old-ish songs that involve rain, but the ones below were recorded by a variety of singers/orchestras:

Wait ‘Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1905)
Rainy Day Blues (1919)
After the Rain (1922)
Don’t Mind the Rain (1924)
Let It Rain (1925)
Just Like a Butterfly [That’s Caught in the Rain] (1927)
Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella (1927)
Rain (1927)
If You Want the Rainbow [You Must Have the Rain] (1928)
A Garden in the Rain (1929)
I Get the Blues When It Rains (1929)
Singin’ in the Rain (1929)
Rain on the Roof (1932)
Butterflies in the Rain (1933)
Ridin’ Around in the Rain (1934)
September in the Rain (1937)

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Electric Light Orchestra – Concerto For A Rainy Day

Standing in the Rain
Big Wheels
Summer and Lightning
Mr. Blue Sky

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Slim Dusty
When The Currawongs Come Down
When the Rain Tumbles Down in July

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In Indian classical music, there are monsoon ragas to be played in the rainy season. Here’s one peformed in an Indian thunderstorm.

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Brook Benton – Rainy Night in Georgia
Elvis Presley – Kentucky Rain

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The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin

Have You Ever Seen The Rain - CCR

It’s Raining Again - Supertramp

Rain - The Beatles

And for a special kind of rain:

It’s Raining Men - The Weather Girls

ETA: I just see that the Beatles’ Rain was mentioned in the OP. Sorry.

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Supertramp - It’s Raining Again *
Madness - The Sun and the Rain; Grey Day
The Kinks - Rainy Day in June
Barry Manilow - I Made It Through the Rain
The 77s - The Rain Kept Falling In Love
B. J. Thomas - Everybody Loves a Rain Song
Stevie Wonder - Never In Your Sun
XTC - Ballet for a Rainy Day

  • (Heh, ninja’d by EinsteinsHund while I was adding a couple others I thought of at the last minute)