Its Raining Again. No Presbyterian Rain Either; but a Genuine Baptist Downpour.

1982 unmarried past Supertramp

"Information technology'southward Raining Again"
Single by Supertramp
from the album ...Famous Final Words...
B-side	"Bonnie"
Released	October 1982 (1982-x)
Genre	Pop stone,[1] art pop, soft rock
Length	iv:24
Label	A&K
Songwriter(south)	Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson
Producer(south)	Supertramp, Peter Henderson
Supertramp singles chronology
"Breakfast in America (alive)" (1981) "Information technology'southward Raining Over again" (1982) "My Kind of Lady" (1983)
Music video
"It's Raining Again" on YouTube

"Information technology's Raining Once again" is a song recorded by the English progressive rock band Supertramp and released every bit a single from their 1982 album …Famous Last Words… with credits given to Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, although as indicated on the album sleeve, information technology is a Hodgson limerick.^{[Notation 1]} The end of the song incorporates the old nursery rhyme "It's Raining, It's Pouring".

The vocal debuted at No. 31 on 30 October 1982 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the second highest debut on that chart for all of 1982 (bested only past "Ebony and Ivory" at No. 29 on 10 Apr 1982), but it only peaked at No. eleven, making it one of the few songs to enter the chart in the Tiptop twoscore but not reach the Elevation 10.^[2] The record was a big success on the European charts, reaching the peak 10 in Austria, the netherlands, Deutschland, Norway, and Switzerland, and No. 1 in France. This was the grouping'south terminal pinnacle 40 hit on the United Kingdom singles chart.

Music video [edit]

The vocal's video was directed past future Highlander director Russell Mulcahy and conceptualized by Keith Williams.^[three]

In the video, a human being drives a mussed-up convertible through a dust storm to a small town cafe to bring a bouquet to his girlfriend, who is a waitress there. A co-worker hands him a Dearest John letter. Afterward having his parked car ticketed for heading the wrong way, he spends a forgettable nighttime at the Pickwick Bulldoze-In film "Famous Terminal Words" (reminding viewers about Supertramp's anthology), seeing himself on the movie, watching another couple comprehend in the auto side by side to his, and meeting a small child with argent teeth, who points out that his car's left rear wheel is missing.

The side by side day the man, now on the street outside the cafe without his car, kisses the immature girl, leaves the bouquet with her, and with his suitcase boards a bus to downtown Los Angeles. He is greeted by a guitar-playing passenger, then an uninterested cowboy props his long legs onto the seat in front of him, next to a lady putting on lipstick and wearing a white wig that receives a paper airplane thrown by another passenger. Awakened past the driver at the station, the man, now the last passenger still on the bus, finds himself without anything in his pockets, presumably having been robbed, but withal with his suitcase. He thumbs downwardly two rednecks in a pickup truck, who find him like shooting fish in a barrel pickings for practical jokes, pitch him onto Hollywood Boulevard, and throw his suitcase onto him.

After a short walk, encountering more than rough people, the human suffers a back alley beating in which he is stripped to his underwear and robbed of his suitcase. An elderly lady gives him an orange umbrella just before rain begins to deluge the alley. In spite of a sea of black umbrellas, he accidentally runs into his true love, who is under a yellowish umbrella, and the ii cover and dance together in the rain. The body of water of black umbrellas disappears. This final encounter is what had appeared and at present appears at the terminate of the aforementioned bulldoze-in film. As the camera pulls back, the couple in the convertible now has 2 children in the back seat while the vocal fades out with the children's nursery rhyme "it'southward raining, it'south pouring..."

The 5 members of Supertramp all appear in the video. At the get-go, John Helliwell is a street musician playing an alto saxophone. Before the commencement chorus, Dougie Thomson appears every bit the double-decker driver (this was the last filmed video where Thomson would appear with his then trademark moustache and bristles). Hodgson plays the guitar-playing passenger vehicle passenger. Lastly, Rick Davies and Bob Siebenberg play the two pickup truck rednecks.

Track listings [edit]

seven-inch vinyl [edit]

Side ane

No.	Title	Length
1.	"It's Raining Again"	four:25

Side two

No.	Title	Length
i.	"Bonnie"	5:37

Personnel [edit]

• Roger Hodgson – piano, atomic number 82 and backing vocals
• Dougie Thomson – bass
• Bob Siebenberg – drums
• Rick Davies – additional synthesizers, melodica solo
• John Helliwell – baritone (middle of song) and tenor saxophones, synthesizers

Charts [edit]

Chart (1982–83)	Peak position
Great britain Singles Nautical chart[iv]	26
Austrian Singles Chart[v]	7
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[6]	ane
Canadian RPM Singles Chart[7]	4
Dutch GfK Charts[8]	6
Dutch Top 40[nine]	half dozen
France (SNEP)[10]	199
German Singles Chart[eleven]	3
Irish Singles Chart[12]	16
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[13]	xix
Norwegian Singles Chart[fourteen]	6
Southward Africa[15]	half-dozen
Swiss Singles Nautical chart[16]	two
U.s. Billboard Hot 100[17]	11
United states of america Billboard Adult Contemporary[17]	five
The states Billboard Mainstream Rock[17]	7
U.s. Cash Box Peak 100[18]	7

Certifications [edit]

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Like John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, Hodgson and Davies joined writer's credits from 1974 until 1983, when Hodgson left the band to pursue a solo career.

References [edit]

1. ^ "Supertramp – Information technology's Raining Again". Acclaimed Music. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
2. ^ "Chartbeat". Billboard. viii January 1983. p. 73. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
3. ^ "Supertramp It'southward raining once more". mvdbase.com. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 26 Jan 2021.
4. ^ "The Official Charts Company – Supertramp – It'due south Raining Again". Retrieved 22 Feb 2009.
5. ^ "Supertramp – It's Raining Once again – austriancharts.at". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
6. ^ "Particular Brandish – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. xv January 1983. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
7. ^ "Top Singles – Volume 37, No. 18, December eighteen, 1982". RPM. Archived from the original on ii April 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
8. ^ "dutchcharts.nl – Supertramp – It's Raining Again". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
9. ^ "De Nederlandse Top 40, week 47, 1982". Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
10. ^ "Supertramp – It's Raining Again" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 16 Feb 2021.
11. ^ "charts-surfer.de search results". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
12. ^ "irishcharts.ie search results". Archived from the original on 1 Feb 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
13. ^ "Supertramp – It's Raining Again". Top forty Singles. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
14. ^ "norwegiancharts.com – Supertramp – It'due south Raining Over again". Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
15. ^ "South African Charts 1965-1989".
16. ^ "Supertramp – It'south Raining Once more – hitparade.ch". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
17. ^ ^{a b c} "allmusic – Supertramp – Billboard singles". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
18. ^ "Greenbacks Box Top 100 Singles, January 15, 1983". Archived from the original on three June 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
19. ^ "Canadian single certifications – Supertramp – It'south Raining Again". Music Canada.

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