Northern Californian Sarah Kishler asks on FaceBook:
What are your favorite rain songs? Wind songs?
So, I dropped a few responses on her post, coming late to it and so not repeating suggestions such as CCR's "Who'll Stop the Rain?", the Association's "Windy", Gene Kelly's "Singin' in the Rain" or the Beatles'"Rain"...
Miriam Makeba: "West Wind"
Nina Simone: "Feeling Good"
Rainy Day: "Rainy Day, Dream Away" (cued up at artist/title link; whole album below)
The Bangles: "The Rain Song"
Hüsker Dü: "Up in the Air"
Bandits: "All Along the Watchtower" (OST, Jasmin Tabatabai)
The Hollies: "Bus Stop"
Muddy Waters: "40 Days and 40 Nights"
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: "Didn't It Rain, Children?"
Doc Watson: "Windy and Warm"
Joni Mitchell: "Eastern Rain"
Fairport Convention: "Eastern Rain"
The Cowsills: "The Rain, the Park and Other Things"
The Free Design: "Umbrellas"
...my brother, James Eric Mason, had answered earlier, and had been reminded of another Nina Simone recording, even if he might've thought of David Bowie's cover first:
and he recalled this:
while my sister-in-law, Paula Mason, was reminded of:
and Kelly Robinson and Joe Megalos were moved to note some suggestions on my FB "wall"...
Kelly's were:
and
while Joe was moved to cite a handful, including:
(and two other Waits songs, "Rain Dogs" and "More Than Rain")
and (interesting how many fugues are inspired by rain)
and Massive Attack's "Pray for Rain" and, as did one of Sarah's direct correspondents, the Jesus and Mary Chain's "Happy When It Rains"
and one I'd linked to in a previous Saturday Music Club:
What are your favorite rain songs? Wind songs?
So, I dropped a few responses on her post, coming late to it and so not repeating suggestions such as CCR's "Who'll Stop the Rain?", the Association's "Windy", Gene Kelly's "Singin' in the Rain" or the Beatles'"Rain"...
Miriam Makeba: "West Wind"
Nina Simone: "Feeling Good"
Rainy Day: "Rainy Day, Dream Away" (cued up at artist/title link; whole album below)
The Bangles: "The Rain Song"
Hüsker Dü: "Up in the Air"
Bandits: "All Along the Watchtower" (OST, Jasmin Tabatabai)
The Hollies: "Bus Stop"
Muddy Waters: "40 Days and 40 Nights"
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: "Didn't It Rain, Children?"
Doc Watson: "Windy and Warm"
Joni Mitchell: "Eastern Rain"
Fairport Convention: "Eastern Rain"
The Cowsills: "The Rain, the Park and Other Things"
The Free Design: "Umbrellas"
...my brother, James Eric Mason, had answered earlier, and had been reminded of another Nina Simone recording, even if he might've thought of David Bowie's cover first:
and he recalled this:
while my sister-in-law, Paula Mason, was reminded of:
and Kelly Robinson and Joe Megalos were moved to note some suggestions on my FB "wall"...
Kelly's were:
and
while Joe was moved to cite a handful, including:
(and two other Waits songs, "Rain Dogs" and "More Than Rain")
and (interesting how many fugues are inspired by rain)
and Massive Attack's "Pray for Rain" and, as did one of Sarah's direct correspondents, the Jesus and Mary Chain's "Happy When It Rains"
and one I'd linked to in a previous Saturday Music Club: