"Can You Stop the Rain"
Single by Peabo Bryson
from the album Can You Stop the Rain
ReleasedMay 4, 1991
Length5:34
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Walter Afanasieff
Peabo Bryson singles chronology
"Lover's Paradise"
(1990)		 "Can You Stop the Rain"
(1991)		 "Closer Than Close"
(1991)

"Can You Stop the Rain" is a song by American singer Peabo Bryson, taken from his fifteenth studio album of the same name (1991). It was written by John Bettis and Walter Afanasieff, while production was helmed by the latter. Released as the album's lead single, the song spent two weeks at number one on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and peaked at number fifty-two on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] It also reached number 11 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Music video

Directed by Rocky Schenck, the video is shot in a sepia tone with Bryson singing the song in places like a plaza, a ballroom containing a band performing and inside a room where he sings to a window that's pouring rain.

Personnel and credits

Charts

See also

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 90.
  2. ↑ "Peabo Bryson Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Peabo Bryson Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Peabo Bryson Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year-End 1991". Billboard. Retrieved October 16, 2021.


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