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1982 unmarried by Supertramp

"It'due south Raining Again"
Single by Supertramp
from the album ...Famous Last Words...
B-side	"Bonnie"
Released	October 1982 (1982-x)
Genre	Pop rock,[1] fine art pop, soft rock
Length	4:24
Characterization	A&M
Songwriter(south)	Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson
Producer(s)	Supertramp, Peter Henderson
Supertramp singles chronology
"Breakfast in America (live)" (1981) "It'southward Raining Again" (1982) "My Kind of Lady" (1983)
Music video
"It's Raining Once more" on YouTube

"It's Raining Over again" is a vocal recorded by the English progressive stone ring Supertramp and released as a single from their 1982 album …Famous Concluding Words… with credits given to Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, although as indicated on the album sleeve, it is a Hodgson composition.^{[Note 1]} The cease of the song incorporates the old nursery rhyme "It'south Raining, It's Pouring".

The song 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 April 1982), merely information technology only peaked at No. 11, making information technology one of the few songs to enter the chart in the Superlative 40 but not reach the Top 10.^[2] The tape was a big success on the European charts, reaching the height 10 in Republic of austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland, and No. one in France. This was the group'south last top 40 hit on the Uk singles chart.

Music video [edit]

The vocal'south video was directed by future Highlander managing director Russell Mulcahy and conceptualized by Keith Williams.^[3]

In the video, a human drives a beat-up convertible through a dust tempest to a small town cafe to bring a bouquet to his girlfriend, who is a waitress at that place. A co-worker hands him a Dear John letter. After having his parked car ticketed for heading the wrong way, he spends a forgettable night at the Pickwick Drive-In pic "Famous Last Words" (reminding viewers about Supertramp'southward album), seeing himself on the film, watching another couple encompass in the auto next to his, and meeting a small kid with silver teeth, who points out that his car's left rear wheel is missing.

The next solar day the man, at present on the street outside the cafe without his car, kisses the young 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, adjacent to a lady putting on lipstick and wearing a white wig that receives a newspaper airplane thrown by some other passenger. Awakened by the driver at the station, the man, now the terminal passenger still on the autobus, finds himself without anything in his pockets, presumably having been robbed, but nonetheless with his suitcase. He thumbs downward two rednecks in a pickup truck, who find him easy pickings for practical jokes, pitch him onto Hollywood Boulevard, and throw his suitcase onto him.

After a short walk, encountering more rough people, the man suffers a back aisle chirapsia in which he is stripped to his underwear and robbed of his suitcase. An elderly lady gives him an orange umbrella but before rain begins to drench the alley. In spite of a sea of black umbrellas, he accidentally runs into his true honey, who is under a yellow umbrella, and the two cover and dance together in the rain. The ocean of black umbrellas disappears. This final run into is what had appeared and now appears at the end of the aforementioned drive-in motion picture. Equally the camera pulls back, the couple in the convertible now has two children in the back seat while the song fades out with the children's plant nursery rhyme "it's raining, information technology's pouring..."

The five members of Supertramp all appear in the video. At the showtime, John Helliwell is a street musician playing an alto saxophone. Before the first chorus, Dougie Thomson appears as the bus driver (this was the last filmed video where Thomson would appear with his then trademark moustache and bristles). Hodgson plays the guitar-playing omnibus passenger. Lastly, Rick Davies and Bob Siebenberg play the two pickup truck rednecks.

Rails listings [edit]

vii-inch vinyl [edit]

Side one

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

Side two

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

Personnel [edit]

• Roger Hodgson – pianoforte, lead and backing vocals, glockenspiel
• 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
UK Singles Chart[4]	26
Austrian Singles Chart[5]	seven
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[6]	one
Canadian RPM Singles Nautical chart[7]	4
Dutch GfK Charts[8]	6
Dutch Top 40[9]	6
France (SNEP)[10]	199
German language Singles Chart[11]	three
Irish Singles Nautical chart[12]	sixteen
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[13]	xix
Norwegian Singles Chart[xiv]	half dozen
South Africa[fifteen]	6
Swiss Singles Nautical chart[xvi]	2
US Billboard Hot 100[17]	11
US Billboard Adult Gimmicky[17]	5
US Billboard Mainstream Rock[17]	7
United states of america Cash Box Summit 100[eighteen]	7

Certifications [edit]

Notes [edit]

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

References [edit]

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