"It's Raining Again"
Single by Supertramp
from the album ...Famous Last Words...
B-side"Bonnie"
Released22 October 1982 (1982-10-22)
Genresoft rock
Length4:24
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson
Producer(s)Supertramp, Peter Henderson
Supertramp singles chronology
"Breakfast in America (live)"
(1981)		 "It's Raining Again"
(1982)		 "My Kind of Lady"
(1983)
Music video
"It's Raining 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 album …Famous Last Words… with credits given to Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, although as indicated on the album sleeve, it is a Hodgson composition.[Note 1] The end of the song incorporates the old nursery rhyme "It's Raining, It's Pouring".

Hodgson said:

I wrote "It’s Raining Again" on a day when I was feeling sad because I’d lost a friend. I was in England looking outside the window and it was pouring rain and literally, the song came to me. I started playing these chords on this pump organ and I just started singing "It’s Raining Again."[1]

Reception

Cash Box said it is "vintage Supertramp with all of the elements that have made the group’s sound so distinctive" and that it is "bouncy and hook-laden."[2] Billboard called it a "lush midtempo charmer."[3]

The song 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 (exceeded only by "Ebony and Ivory" at No. 29 on 10 April 1982), but it only peaked at No. 11, making it one of the few songs to enter the chart in the Top 40 but not reach the Top 10.[4]

Hodgson rated it as one of the top 10 songs he ever wrote.[1]

Track listings

7-inch vinyl

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."It's Raining Again"4:25
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Bonnie"5:37

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1982–1983) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] 11
Austrian Singles Chart[6] 7
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[7] 1
Canadian RPM Singles Chart[8] 4
Dutch GfK Charts[9] 6
Dutch Top 40[10] 6
France (SNEP)[11] 1
German Singles Chart[12] 3
Irish Singles Chart[13] 16
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[14] 19
Norwegian Singles Chart[15] 6
South Africa[16] 6
Swiss Singles Chart[17] 2
UK Singles Chart[18] 26
US Billboard Hot 100[19] 11
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[19] 5
US Billboard Mainstream Rock[19] 7
US Cash Box Top 100[20] 7

Certifications

Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[21] Gold 50,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Notes

  1. ↑ Like John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, Hodgson and Davies joined writer's credits from 1974 until 1983, when Hodgson left the band to pursue a solo career.

References

  1. 1 2 Hodgson, Roger (20 March 2023). "Supertramp's Roger Hodgson: the 10 best songs I've written". Prog. Louder Sound. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 30 October 1982. p. 8. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  3. ↑ "Top Single Picks". Billboard. 30 October 1982. p. 66. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  4. ↑ "Chartbeat". Billboard. 8 January 1983. p. 73. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  6. ↑ "Supertramp – It's Raining Again – austriancharts.at". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  7. ↑ "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 15 January 1983. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Top Singles – Volume 37, No. 18, December 18, 1982". RPM. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  9. ↑ "dutchcharts.nl – Supertramp – It's Raining Again". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  10. ↑ "De Nederlandse Top 40, week 47, 1982". Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  11. ↑ "Supertramp – It's Raining Again" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  12. ↑ "charts-surfer.de search results". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  13. ↑ "irishcharts.ie search results". Archived from the original on 26 January 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  14. ↑ "Supertramp – It's Raining Again". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  15. ↑ "norwegiancharts.com – Supertramp – It's Raining Again". Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  16. ↑ "South African Charts 1965-1989".
  17. ↑ "Supertramp – It's Raining Again – hitparade.ch". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  18. ↑ "The Official Charts Company – Supertramp – It's Raining Again". Official Charts. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  19. 1 2 3 "allmusic – Supertramp – Billboard singles". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  20. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, January 15, 1983". Archived from the original on 3 June 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  21. ↑ "Canadian single certifications – Supertramp – It's Raining Again". Music Canada.
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