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

1. Lucy Jones (10 December 2012), "20 Things You Didn't Know About 'Purple Rain'", New Musical Express
2. "30 great songs about rain", Daily Telegraph, 6 June 2017
3. Thomas Smith (17 January 2017), "The 20 best songs about rain", New Musical Express
4. Cynthia Barnett (2015), Rain: A Natural and Cultural History, Crown/Archetype, p. 169, ISBN 9780804137102