Just asking…
On cloudy, rainy days like today and yesterday, don’t you feel like singing a weather-related song?
That ominous, threatening layer of clouds lingering yesterday over the islands produced a lot of liquid sunshine, prompting me to think about weather tunes.
Here are 10 tunes — to search for in your disc collections or to request your favorite deejay to play — to keep you in the rainy-cloudy-stormy vein:
- “Rhythm of the Rain,” by The Cascades.
- “The Rain in Spain, Stays Mainly on the Plain,” by Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady” (varies if film or stage).
- “Set Fire to the Rain,” by Adele.
- “Get Off of My Cloud,” by the Rolling Stones.
- “Singing in the Rain,” by Gene Kelly.
- “Both Sides Now,” by Judy Collins or Joni Mitchell.
- “Cloud Nine,” by the Temptations.
- “Stormy Weather,” by Lena Horne.
- “Come Rain or Come Shine,” by Margaret Whiting and various artists.
- “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” by B. J. Thomas.
Of course, the childhood-era “Rain, Rain Go Away” might be the simplest song on the rainy list, and if there’s rain, there just must be rainbows, so credit Judy Garland for her “Over the Rainbow” original, and home-grown Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole” for re-inventing his version fused with “What a Wonderful Day.”
Do you have a weather-related song you wanna hear on a cloudy day?
And here’s to a sunny tomorrow…