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"I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (or "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today") is a song by American singer-songwriter Randy Newman. It appears on Julius La Rosa's 1966 album You're Gonna Hear from Me, Eric Burdon's 1967 album Eric Is Here, on Newman's 1968 debut album Randy Newman, in The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 (2003), and in Newman's official and bootleg live albums.
The song marks out a simple pattern of life: boy meets girl, gets married, lives in suburbia, has children, dies. Randy moves in on The Dream in an uncommon way: 'When our kids are grown/They’ll send us away to a little home in Florida/ We’ll play checkers all day/Till we pass away.'" [ 13 ]
Will to Power contains the band's No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley", the most successful single released by them today, coming to stay for a week in the first position of the Billboard Hot 100, [3] as well as two songs that reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, ("Say It's ...
The original version of the song appeared on their 1988 self-titled debut album. The lead vocals on the track were sung by singer-songwriter Suzi Carr. [ 2 ] A 12" single was released to clubs in 1988, and this remix became the first of two number-one songs for the band on the American dance chart .
It's Gonna Rain is a tape composition written by Steve Reich in 1965. It lasts about 18 minutes. It lasts about 18 minutes. It was Reich's first major work and is considered a landmark in minimalism and process music .
Blossom Dearie recorded the song for her 1967 album Soon It's Gonna Rain. [6] Julie London recorded the song for her 1968 album Easy Does It. For his album Kidults (2001), Mandy Patinkin and Kristin Chenoweth made a recording of the song. [7] Duke Ellington also recorded the song; it appeared on the 2002 album Live and Rare. [8]
The Zulu Mix of "They Say It's Gonna Rain" was included on Dean's second album, Always, which was released three years after the single, in 1988. [1] In 2012, both mixes, as well as the 7" version and the single's b-side "Can't Get You Out Of My Mind" were included on a reissue of the album.
The lyrics were made up in two and a half minutes to go with a tune we had". [2] After the release of their debut album, Signing Off, lead singer Ali Campbell described the song as "awful" in comparison to the songs "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" and "Strange Fruit" which they had covered on the album. [3]