RAIN WEEK: "Songs About Rain"

Part 1 of 5
Following the old children's rhyme, about April showers bringing May flowers, ZONINO! presents seven of our favorite "rain-themed" things.

Back in August of 2009 we did a special on Gary Allan so it only seems appropriate that we repeat his phenomenal tear-streaked ballad, "Songs About Rain".

There are many classic tunes that could easily music contenders for the list of great rain-related music, but fortunately Allan takes care of them all for us in this one song, from his See If I Care album from 2003. The heartbroken guy in the song wants nothing more that to take his mind of his current state of emotion with a happy song or two. The radio, however, has different plans and "just keeps playing songs about rain." Conway Twitty's "Rainy Night In Georgia"*, Elvis Presley's "Kentucky Rain" and British band, The Fortunes', "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" are among the few that seem to haunt his radio dial.

Sergio del Limónar

*originally recorded by R&B artist Brook Benton in 1970 (thank you Wikipedia).