# Rain songs
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 23, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930 "2019-06-23T15:47:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/1 "2019-06-23T15:47:13Z")
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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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/2 "2019-06-23T15:52:55Z")
The Unicorn, by the Irish Rovers
Rainy Day People, Gordon Lightfoot
Taxi, Harry Chapin
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### Author:  [@MDfive21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MDfive21)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/3 "2019-06-23T15:56:45Z")
Doors. Riders on the storm.
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/4 "2019-06-23T16:03:12Z")
“It Never Rains In Southern California” --Albert Hammond
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/5 "2019-06-23T16:03:32Z")
Cowboy Junkies, [“Southern Rain”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdtdHqwBBhE)
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/6 "2019-06-23T16:04:28Z")
B.J.Thomas - [Raindrops keep falling on my head](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JebowNHkA_M)
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/7 "2019-06-23T16:05:17Z")
“Purple Rain”–Prince
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/8 "2019-06-23T16:08:03Z")
nm
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/9 "2019-06-23T16:13:05Z")
**Current 93** : [When the May Rain Comes](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Uusk_Uix8)
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/10 "2019-06-23T16:16:05Z")
Oran ‘Juice’ Jones, [“The Rain”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dZW1C3neao)
_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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### Author:  [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/11 "2019-06-23T16:18:17Z")
[Project Pitchfork - Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCPVLjrHDTs)
[Switchblade Symphony - Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8tbgS6Xx14)
[The Cult - Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD5b_0QB0wI)
[Garbage - Only Happy when it Rains](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpBFOJ3R0M4)
[The Sisters of Mercy - Rain from Heaven](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwH2i5lxRLA)
[Hungry Lucy - Rainfall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUeUC7v_IK4)
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/12 "2019-06-23T16:21:25Z")
Peter, Paul And Mary-[It’s Raining](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7DH8Z-wtTc)
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/13 "2019-06-23T16:22:21Z")
**Tones on Tail** : [Rain](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-gs4MJIcjx8)
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### Author:  [@lew\_cody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lew_cody)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/14 "2019-06-23T16:26:03Z")
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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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/15 "2019-06-23T16:29:03Z")
Electric Light Orchestra – [Concerto For A Rainy Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWnYae52Bd4)
Standing in the Rain
Big Wheels
Summer and Lightning
Mr. Blue Sky
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/16 "2019-06-23T16:29:52Z")
Slim Dusty
[When The Currawongs Come Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UISY-0tX550)
[When the Rain Tumbles Down in July](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYIMvOVZ2Q8)
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### Author:  [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/17 "2019-06-23T16:30:58Z")
In Indian classical music, there are monsoon ragas to be played in the rainy season. [Here’s one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFenlzgBEns) peformed in an Indian thunderstorm.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/18 "2019-06-23T16:35:32Z")
Brook Benton – [Rainy Night in Georgia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRbF80NKDU)
Elvis Presley – [Kentucky Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU2U3QAUGak)
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/19 "2019-06-23T16:42:13Z")
[The Rain Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ4uzD_hLds) - Led Zeppelin
[Have You Ever Seen The Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu2pVPWGYMQ) - CCR
[It’s Raining Again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZUE4_PtOk0) - Supertramp
[Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5G8fPmWeA) - The Beatles
And for a special kind of rain:
[It’s Raining Men](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E) - The Weather Girls
ETA: I just see that the Beatles’ Rain was mentioned in the OP. Sorry.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/20 "2019-06-23T16:42:14Z")
Supertramp - [It’s Raining Again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZUE4_PtOk0) \*
Madness - [The Sun and the Rain](https://youtu.be/T_9FeMMlLZw?t=20); [Grey Day](https://youtu.be/JmBA7e-G21Q?t=23)
The Kinks - [Rainy Day in June](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfFAsjawANE)
Barry Manilow - [I Made It Through the Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95nkbSB7Bf8)
The 77s - [The Rain Kept Falling In Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBBzzEmDf7w)
B. J. Thomas - [Everybody Loves a Rain Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1yWSi72dB8)
Stevie Wonder - [Never In Your Sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khN3MqgLJao)
XTC - [Ballet for a Rainy Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dHyfKprouE)
- (Heh, ninja’d by **EinsteinsHund** while I was adding a couple others I thought of at the last minute)
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