# Rain songs **URL:** \ **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:** 3
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/41 "2019-06-23T18:39:46Z")
Eddie Rabbit - Drivin’ My Life Away ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/42 "2019-06-23T19:38:30Z")
Adel - [Set fire to the rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93dCIYaB4Os). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/43 "2019-06-23T19:45:41Z")
[Rain Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iQi-PgkALw) – The Youngbloods ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/44 "2019-06-23T19:53:34Z")
“Bug Rain” by Looper (about rain, not bugs) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uhQaI7EGhQs/maxresdefault.jpg "Bug Rain") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhQaI7EGhQs) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/45 "2019-06-23T20:14:26Z")
Enya, “A Day without Rain” (unfortunately, no lyrics). Chad and Jeremy, “A Summer Song”: _And when the rain beats against my windowpane I’ll think of summer days again and dream of you._ … And that’s when you know it’s really over. ☹ Happy 60th, Gina! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/46 "2019-06-23T20:16:38Z")
Neil Innes - [Protest Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfTlGMCeuDE) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/47 "2019-06-23T21:25:15Z")
[It’s Raining](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjfbdkxODaA) – Rick Derringer ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/48 "2019-06-23T22:59:25Z")
[Stormy Weather](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zywZUhaUqMo), written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. First recorded by Ethel Waters in 1933, and covered by nearly everyone in the big band era. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/49 "2019-06-23T23:06:36Z")
[Walking in the Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMQkTqeSXD4) – Flash and the Pan ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/50 "2019-06-23T23:25:21Z")
“Summer Rain” Johnny Rivers (yes) “SummerRain” Belinda Carlisle ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/51 "2019-06-24T00:34:25Z")
Davy Jones. [Rainy Jane](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyrAvOoli2U) Melanie. [(Lay Down) Candles in the Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlp3wmE4bbI) Tanya Tucker. [The Rainmaker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIlEFK0KZ6s) nursery song: [The Eensie Beensie Spider Came Up the Waterspout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZneDNS9rONQ) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/52 "2019-06-24T00:42:04Z")
Let It Rain - Eric Clapton Come In From the Rain - Captain & Tennille Rain Is Falling - E. L. O. Rain On the Scarecrow - John Mellencamp Drivin’ Rain - Gov’t Mule Laughter In the Rain - Neil Sedaka Rain Down On Me - RTZ After the Rain - Nelson Raining In My Heartland - Lynyrd Skynyrd Who Let In the Rain? - Cyndi Lauper Walk Between Raindrops - Donald Fagen No More Cloudy Days - Eagles Apologies if some of these have already been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/53 "2019-06-24T00:44:39Z")
Chocolate Rain - Tay Zonday ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/54 "2019-06-24T00:46:28Z")
Blind Melon - _No Rain_. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/55 "2019-06-24T03:46:38Z")
Come Rain or Come Shine - written by Harold Arlen and composed by Johnny Mercer. Recorded by many artists including [Ray Charles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsQMoUuwYjU). ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/56 "2019-06-24T03:57:46Z")
Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Folgelberg. For most of the song it’s snowing, but at the end it turns into rain. Edit: apparently it’s Same Old, not Same Auld ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/57 "2019-06-24T04:43:41Z")
from [Rainmaker - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainmaker) > [@](#): > > Songs > “Rainmaker” (Emmelie de Forest song) (2014) > “Rainmaker” (Iron Maiden song) (2003) > “Rainmaker”, by Harry Nilsson and Bill Martin from the 1969 album Harry, with cover versions by: > Tom Northcott (1969) > The Dillards, from the 1970 album Copperfields > Bobbie Gentry, from the 1970 album Fancy > Michael Nesmith, from the 1970 album Nevada Fighter > The 5th Dimension, from the 1971 album Love’s Lines, Angles and Rhymes > “Rainmaker”, by Kansas from the 1988 album In the Spirit of Things > “Rainmaker”, by The Partridge Family from the 2001 album Sound Magazine > “Rainmaker”, by Preston Reed from the 1996 album Ladies Night > “Rainmaker”, by Sleigh Bells from the 2017 EP Kid Kruschev > “Rainmaker”, by Sparklehorse from the 1996 album Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot > “Rainmaker”, by Spear of Destiny from the 1984 album One Eyed Jacks > “Rainmaker”, by Traffic from the 1971 album The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys > “Rainmaker”, by Vanden Plas from the 1997 album The God Thing > “Rainmaker”, by Yanni from the 2003 album Ethnicity > “Mr. Rainmaker”, by Warrant from the 1990 album Cherry Pie None of which I have ever heard of. To a kid in the suburbs in the 1970s, [Rainmaker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwvvqrRal4) meant the Partridge Family. ---
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It was as close as I ever came to a theme, I guess, although it was just kind of a coincidence that both of these seemed to be about rainy days when I wrote them. [Raining Spools](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bA6bx-pepw&list=PLZlCBvV-cV5yhiC9AQv3yZk96JD7kjeug&index=48) [Raining Garbage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-dm1ceBO7M&list=PLZlCBvV-cV5yhiC9AQv3yZk96JD7kjeug&index=17&t=0s) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/59 "2019-06-24T05:04:12Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > “Rainmaker”, by The Partridge Family from the 2001 album Sound Magazine The [what](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Magazine)? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930/60 "2019-06-24T13:19:43Z")
Priscilla Ahn [_Rain_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9eZiQAxaHw). Bonus points: includes the lyrics to the children’s rhyme. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-songs/835930.md?page=4)