Last night, as we were hunkered down playing around in the Twitterverse, a number of New Orleans-area Tweeters started putting together a playlist of rain-related songs for Tropical Storm Lee. (If you wish, you can follow the discussion with the appropriately-hashtagged #Rainsongs). Here’s what @LorinGaudin, @ChefMarySonnier, @TerriTroncaleTP, @Nolanolegal, @nolaveggiechick, @duris, and I put together, with links to various versions on YouTube. Feel free to add your own in the comments, or tweet it out (tag us @LaDolceNola!)
- It’s Raining- Irma Thomas
- It’s Raining Men- Weather Girls
- Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain- The Cascades
- Fire and Rain- James Taylor
- Didn’t It Rain- Mahalia Jackson (originally Louis Armstrong also done by John Boutte and others)
- Rain, Rain- Louis Armstrong
- It Feels Like Rain- Aaron Neville
- Blame it on the Rain- Milli Vanilli
- I Love a Rainy Night- Eddie Rabbitt
- Purple Rain- Prince
- Rain, Rain Go Away
- Stormy Weather- Ethel Waters (Link is to Lena Horne)
- Here Comes the Rain Again- Eurythmics
- Raindrops keep Falling on My Head- BJ Thomas (but if you’re really brave, here’s a version by David Hasselhoff)
- I Wish it Would Rain- The Temptations
- Sit and Listen to the Rain- Whiskeytown
- I Can’t Stand the Rain- Tina Turner
- Singing in the Rain- Doris Eaton Travis (Link is to Gene Kelly)
- MacArthur Park- Donna Summer, Richard Harris (Here’s a very funny SCTV Parody).
- Louisiana Rain- Tom Petty
- Rainy Days and Mondays- Carpenters
- Only Happy When it Rains- Garbage
- Dry the Rain- the Beta Band
- I Wish it Would Rain Down- Phil Collins
By the way, La Dolce Nola is open all weekend and will help you brave the rain with 24 flavors of homemade artisan gelato & sorbetto, lest we forget to mention. Come in today and sing any of these songs (or your favorite rain song), buy a gelato & you’ll get one (of equal or lesser value) free!