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"It's Raining Over again"
Single by Supertramp
from the album ...Famous Last Words...
B-side	"Bonnie"
Released	October 1982 (1982-10)
Genre	Pop rock,[1] art pop, soft rock
Length	iv:24
Label	A&M
Songwriter(southward)	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 Over again" on YouTube

"It's Raining Again" is a song recorded by the English progressive rock band Supertramp and released as a single from their 1982 anthology …Famous Last Words… with credits given to Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, although every bit indicated on the anthology sleeve, it is a Hodgson limerick.^{[Note one]} The terminate of the song incorporates the old nursery rhyme "Information technology'southward Raining, It'south 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 by "Ebony and Ivory" at No. 29 on x Apr 1982), but it only peaked at No. 11, making it one of the few songs to enter the chart in the Height 40 merely not reach the Pinnacle x.^[2] The tape was a big success on the European charts, reaching the acme 10 in Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland, and No. 1 in France. This was the group's last top forty hit on the Uk singles chart.

Music video [edit]

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

In the video, a man drives a mussed-up convertible through a grit 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. Later having his parked automobile ticketed for heading the wrong way, he spends a forgettable night at the Pickwick Bulldoze-In pic "Famous Terminal Words" (reminding viewers about Supertramp's anthology), seeing himself on the picture, watching another couple embrace in the car adjacent to his, and meeting a small child with silver teeth, who points out that his car's left rear wheel is missing.

The adjacent mean solar day the homo, now on the street exterior the buffet 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 end of him, next to a lady putting on lipstick and wearing a white wig that receives a paper airplane thrown by some other rider. Awakened by the driver at the station, the man, now the last passenger however on the double-decker, finds himself without anything in his pockets, presumably having been robbed, just even so with his suitcase. He thumbs down 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 than rough people, the man 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 but before rain begins to deluge the alley. In spite of a sea of black umbrellas, he accidentally runs into his truthful dear, who is under a xanthous umbrella, and the two cover and trip the light fantastic toe together in the rain. The sea of black umbrellas disappears. This terminal encounter is what had appeared and now appears at the end of the aforementioned drive-in movie. As the camera pulls back, the couple in the convertible at present has two children in the dorsum seat while the song fades out with the children'due south nursery rhyme "it'southward raining, it's pouring..."

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

Track listings [edit]

7-inch vinyl [edit]

Side one

No.	Title	Length
ane.	"It'due south Raining Again"	4:25

Side ii

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

Personnel [edit]

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

Charts [edit]

Chart (1982–83)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart[4]	26
Austrian Singles Nautical chart[5]	7
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[half-dozen]	1
Canadian RPM Singles Chart[vii]	4
Dutch GfK Charts[eight]	6
Dutch Height xl[9]	6
French republic (SNEP)[x]	199
German language Singles Chart[11]	3
Irish Singles Chart[12]	16
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[13]	19
Norwegian Singles Chart[14]	half-dozen
South Africa[15]	6
Swiss Singles Chart[16]	2
US Billboard Hot 100[17]	11
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[17]	5
The states Billboard Mainstream Rock[17]	7
US Cash Box Top 100[18]	7

Certifications [edit]

Notes [edit]

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

References [edit]

1. ^ "Supertramp – It's Raining Again". Acclaimed Music. Retrieved xxx March 2021.
2. ^ "Chartbeat". Billboard. 8 January 1983. p. 73. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
3. ^ "Supertramp Information technology's raining again". mvdbase.com. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 26 Jan 2021.
4. ^ "The Official Charts Visitor – Supertramp – It's Raining Again". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
5. ^ "Supertramp – Information technology's Raining 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. ^ "Height Singles – Volume 37, No. 18, December eighteen, 1982". RPM. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
8. ^ "dutchcharts.nl – Supertramp – Information technology'southward Raining Again". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
9. ^ "De Nederlandse Peak twoscore, calendar week 47, 1982". Archived from the original on ii March 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
10. ^ "Supertramp – It's Raining Again" (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's Raining Again". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
14. ^ "norwegiancharts.com – Supertramp – It's Raining Again". Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
15. ^ "Southward African Charts 1965-1989".
16. ^ "Supertramp – It's Raining Once again – hitparade.ch". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
17. ^ ^{a b c} "allmusic – Supertramp – Billboard singles". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
18. ^ "Greenbacks Box Acme 100 Singles, January 15, 1983". Archived from the original on 3 June 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
19. ^ "Canadian single certifications – Supertramp – It's Raining Again". Music Canada.

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