Rhythm of the Rain

" Rhythm of the Rain " is a song performed by The Cascades, released in November 1962. It was written by Cascades band member John Claude Gummoe. It rose to number three on the US pop chart on March 9, 1963, and spent two weeks at number one on the US Easy Listening chart.[ 1 ] Billboard ranked the record as the No. 4 song of 1963.[ 2 ]

The song was also a top 5 hit in the United Kingdom and a number-one single inIreland. In Canada, the song was on the CHUM Chart for a total of 12 weeks and reached number 1 in March 1963.[ 3 ] In 1999 [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Broadcast_Music,_Inc. BMI] listed the song as the ninth most performed song on radio/TV in the 20th century.[ 4 ]

The Cascades' recording was used in the soundtrack of the 1979 film Quadropheniaand included in its soundtrack album.[ 5 ]

Lyrics
The lyrics are sung by a man who wishes the rain would stop falling and reminding him of the error of his ways, and to let him cry alone, as his lover has left him.

Charting cover versions

 * Gary Lewis & the Playboys released a version of the song in 1969 that reached #63 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[ 7 ]
 * Pat Roberts released a version of the song in 1972 that reached #34 on the Country chart.[ 8 ]
 * Jacky Ward released a version of the song in 1978 that reached #11 on the Country chart.[ 9 ]
 * Neil Sedaka released a version of the song in 1984 that reached #37 on the adult contemporary chart.[ 10 ]
 * Dan Fogelberg released a version of the song in 1990 that reached #3 on the adult contemporary chart.[ 11 ]
 * Jason Donovan also released a version of the song in 1990 that reached #9 on the UK Singles Chart.[ 12 ] Donovan re-recorded the song for his 2008 album Let It Be Me.

<span class="mw-headline" id="Other_versions" style="box-sizing:border-box;">Other versions

 * Jan and Dean covered the song on their 1963 album, Jan & Dean Take Linda Surfin.
 * Rob de Nijs covered the song in 1963 as aSINGLE, with the lyrics translated to Dutch by Lennaert Nijgh.
 * Zhuang Xue Fang (莊雪芳) (in edited Standard Chinese lyrics under title name of 雨聲) in 1963 in Singapore,<span class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:0.6em;line-height:0;position:relative;top:-0.5em;">[ 13 ]
 * In 1995 Hawaiian duo the Ka'au Crater Boys included "Rhythm of The (Falling) Rain" on their debut album Tropical Hawaiian Dayand included it on their 2006 Best of... compilation.
 * Irish singer Chris de Burgh included "Rhythm Of The Rain / Crying In The Rain" on his 2008 album Footsteeps.
 * In 2014, Jesse Winchester released a version on the posthumous album A Reasonable Amount Of Trouble by Jesse Winchester
 * In France, Richard Anthony and Sylvie Vartan covered this song under the name of "En écoutant la pluie".
 * Teddy Robin & The Playboys
 * Felicia Wong (王愛明) in Hong Kong
 * Tracy Huang (黃鶯鶯) in Taiwan
 * Sinn Sisamouth in Cambodia
 * Mark Jonathan Davis recorded a parody called "The Rhythm of the Coffee Pot."<span class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:0.6em;line-height:0;position:relative;top:-0.5em;">[ 14 ]
 * Fernanda Takai recorded a Portuguese version titled "O Ritmo da Chuva".<span class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:0.6em;line-height:0;position:relative;top:-0.5em;">[ 15 ]