20 Songs About Rain, In Honor of Most of Last Week

1. “Here’s That Rainy Day,’ Stan Kenton (or Sinatra if you’d rather)

2. “Girl, You Don’t Have to Walk in the Rain Anymore,” The Turtles

3, 4. “I Wish It Would Rain” (both wreckless Eric and The Temptations)

5. “Don’t Go Out Into the Rain You’re Gonna Melt,” Herman’s Hermits

6. “Rain,” The Beatles (now the name of a Broadway-based Beatles tribute act)

7. “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35,” Bob Dylan

8. “Here Comes that Rainy Day Feeling Again,” The Fortunes

9. “Pennies from Heaven,” Bing Crosby

10. “It’s Raining in My Heart,” Buddy Holly

11. “Waters of March,” Antonio Carlos Jobim

12. “Drip Drop,” Hoagy Carmichael

13. “Bus Stop,” The Hollies

14. Here Comes the Rain Again,” Eurythmics.

15. “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” (from the musical Funny Girl)

16. “Rainy Days and Mondays,” The Carpenters

17. The Rainbow Connection, Muppets.

18. Laughter in the Rain, Neil Sedaka.

19. “Purple Rain,” Prince

20. “MacArthur Park,” Richard Harris. Sommmwun leffft thuh cake out in the rain…