List of songs about rain
The theme of "Purple Rain" was explained by Prince, "When there’s blood in the sky – red and blue = purple ... purple rain pertains to the end of the world ..."[1]
This is a list of songs and music about rain.
List
- "Backwater Blues", a jazz and blues standard written by Bessie Smith, and recorded by her and James P. Johnson in 1927
- "Buckets of Rain" by Bob Dylan
- "Didn't It Rain", a gospel song recorded by Sister Rosetta Tharpe among others
- "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" by Creedence Clearwater Revival[2]
- "Il pleut sur Bruxelles" by Dalida
- "In the Rain" by The Dramatics
- "It's Raining Again" by Supertramp
- "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor
- "Laughter in the Rain" by Neil Sedaka
- "Kentucky Rain" by Elvis Presley
- "Let It Rain" by Eric Clapton
- "Let It Rain" by BWO
- "Let It Rain" by David Nail
- "Let It Rain" by East 17
- "Let It Rain" by Eliza Doolittle
- "Let It Rain" by Mark Chesnutt
- "Let It Rain" by Shirley Myers
- "Let It Rain" by Tinchy Stryder
- "Let the Rain" by Sara Bareilles
- "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses
- "No Rain" by Blind Melon
- "Pennies from Heaven" by Arthur Johnston and Johnny Burke
- "Purple Rain" by Prince[3][2]
- "Prelude, Op. 28, No. 15 by Chopin, known as the Raindrop Prelude.[4]
- "Rain" by the Beatles[3][2]
- "Rain" by Madonna
- "Rain" by Mika
- "Rain Dance" by The Guess Who
- "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head by Burt Bacharach
- "Rain on the Roof" by The Lovin' Spoonful (1966)
- "Rainy Day" by Coldplay (2008)
- "Rainy Day in June" by The Kinks (1966)
- "Rainy Days and Mondays" by The Carpenters
- "Rainy Night In Georgia" by Brook Benton
- "Red Rain" by Peter Gabriel (1986)
- "Rhythm of the Rain" by The Cascades
- "Set Fire to the Rain" by Adele
- "Singin' in the Rain",[3][2] Gene Kelly
- "The Sun and the Rain" by Madness
- "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things" by The Cowsills
- "The Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin[2]
- "When It Rains It Snows" by They Might Be Giants
- "When the Sun Comes Out" by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler
- "Who'll Stop the Rain" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Blue Eyes Cryin In the Rain by Willie Nelson
References
- Lucy Jones (10 December 2012), "20 Things You Didn't Know About 'Purple Rain'", New Musical Express
- "30 great songs about rain", Daily Telegraph, 6 June 2017
- Thomas Smith (17 January 2017), "The 20 best songs about rain", New Musical Express
- Cynthia Barnett (2015), Rain: A Natural and Cultural History, Crown/Archetype, p. 169, ISBN 9780804137102
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