Rain Reigned
On my Roundtrip radio show (WNRB-LP, 93.3 FM, Wausau) this past Thursday night (7-9), it was all about rain.
Starting things off with a couple of soulful numbers:
Buddy Guy, Feels Like Rain
Temptations, I Wish It Would Rain
Then, I just let it pour:
Moby Grape, Sittin’ By the Window … some flower power rain ruminations
Blind Melon, No Rain … saw these guys at Woodstock ‘94 (great tune)
Led Zeppelin, The Rain Song … dedicated to my boy Ian, lead guitarist of Freedown
Tom Waits, Rain Dogs
Lovin’ Spoonful, Rain On the Roof
Beatles, Rain … surely, all listeners were waiting for this one
Peter Gabriel, Red Rain
White Stripes, Red Rain … no relation
Counting Crows, Rain King
Hollies, Bus Stop
Robert Johnson, Come On In My Kitchen … “’cause it’s gone to be raining outdoors”
Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Sky is Crying
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Rainy Day Dream Away … phone request (I was planning to play it anyway)
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Still Raining Still Dreaming … these 2 tunes were made to be together
Rolling Stones, She’s a Rainbow
The Kinks, Rainy Day in June
Traffic, Coloured Rain
Rod Stewart, An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down
Counting Crows, Raining in Baltimore
Paul McCartney, Too Much Rain
Grateful Dead, Box of Rain
Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall … rain as a metaphor (live version … amazing memorization of 8 minutes worth of lyrics, xlent performance)
Todd Rundgren, Rain … a faithful cover of the Beatles’ number
This was fun. What did I miss?
PackOne said:
Sings box of rain … la la la la. Nice list. Like the variation on a theme with the Stones tune.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:58 am #
Melissa Sullivan said:
Rihanna - “Umbrella”
LOL!
July 14th, 2008 at 12:07 pm #
Citizen Wausau » Blog Archive » Your Voice: July 14 said:
[…] Tom Neal has songs about rain. I would add Missy Elliott’s incredibly good breakout hit “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” to his […]
July 14th, 2008 at 4:19 pm #
Dino Corvino said:
Melissa, if it was recorded after like 1980, forget it.
July 15th, 2008 at 1:04 am #
Melissa Sullivan said:
Yeah, I was so kidding.
July 15th, 2008 at 1:09 pm #
Tom Neal said:
Dino, you calling me anachronistic?
I think I hit the ’30s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and ’00s.
Missed the ’40s and ’50s.
July 15th, 2008 at 1:51 pm #
VirtualSprite said:
What about “Famous Blue Raincoat”? Leonard Cohen. Classic.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:47 am #