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1982 single by Supertramp

"Information technology'due south Raining 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 stone
Length	4:24
Characterization	A&G
Songwriter(south)	Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson
Producer(s)	Supertramp, Peter Henderson
Supertramp singles chronology
"Breakfast in America (live)" (1981) "It'south Raining Over again" (1982) "My Kind of Lady" (1983)
Music video
"It's Raining Once more" on YouTube

"It's Raining Again" is a song recorded past 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 equally indicated on the album sleeve, it is a Hodgson composition.^{[Note i]} The cease of the vocal incorporates the sometime nursery rhyme "It's Raining, It's 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 10 April 1982), but it only peaked at No. xi, making it one of the few songs to enter the chart in the Top 40 only non reach the Top x.^[2] The tape was a big success on the European charts, reaching the pinnacle x in Austria, the netherlands, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland, and No. 1 in France. This was the grouping'south last top xl hit on the United Kingdom singles chart.

Music video [edit]

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

In the video, a man drives a mussed-up convertible through a dust storm to a small town cafe to bring a bouquet to his girlfriend, who is a waitress in that location. A co-worker hands him a Dear John letter. After having his parked car ticketed for heading the incorrect way, he spends a forgettable night at the Pickwick Drive-In movie "Famous Final Words" (reminding viewers about Supertramp's anthology), seeing himself on the moving-picture show, watching another couple embrace in the car next to his, and meeting a pocket-size child with silver teeth, who points out that his machine's left rear cycle is missing.

The next day the human, now on the street outside the cafe without his car, kisses the young girl, leaves the bouquet with her, and with his suitcase boards a motorbus to downtown Los Angeles. He is greeted by a guitar-playing rider, so an uninterested cowboy props his long legs onto the seat in front of him, next to a lady putting on lipstick and wearing a white wig that receives a paper aeroplane thrown by another passenger. Awakened by the driver at the station, the man, at present the last rider even so on the bus, finds himself without annihilation in his pockets, presumably having been robbed, but still 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 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 just before rain begins to deluge the alley. In spite of a ocean of blackness umbrellas, he accidentally runs into his true dear, who is under a yellow umbrella, and the two encompass and dance together in the rain. The sea of black umbrellas disappears. This final encounter is what had appeared and now appears at the end of the aforementioned bulldoze-in pic. As the camera pulls back, the couple in the convertible at present has two children in the back seat while the song fades out with the children's nursery rhyme "information technology'due south raining, it's pouring..."

The v members of Supertramp all announced in the video. At the commencement, John Helliwell is a street musician playing an alto saxophone. Before the first chorus, Dougie Thomson appears every bit the bus commuter (this was the last filmed video where Thomson would appear with his and so trademark moustache and bristles). Hodgson plays the guitar-playing bus rider. Lastly, Rick Davies and Bob Siebenberg play the two pickup truck rednecks.

Runway listings [edit]

7-inch vinyl [edit]

Side one

No.	Title	Length
one.	"It'southward Raining Again"	four:25

Side two

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

Personnel [edit]

• Roger Hodgson – pianoforte, lead and bankroll vocals
• Dougie Thomson – bass
• Bob Siebenberg – drums
• Rick Davies – boosted synthesizers, melodica solo
• John Helliwell – baritone (heart of song) and tenor saxophones, synthesizers

Charts [edit]

Nautical chart (1982–83)	Elevation position
United kingdom Singles Nautical chart[four]	26
Austrian Singles Chart[five]	7
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[six]	1
Canadian RPM Singles Nautical chart[seven]	4
Dutch GfK Charts[8]	6
Dutch Height 40[9]	6
French republic (SNEP)[ten]	199
German Singles Nautical chart[eleven]	3
Irish Singles Chart[12]	16
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[thirteen]	19
Norwegian Singles Chart[14]	vi
South Africa[15]	6
Swiss Singles Chart[xvi]	2
US Billboard Hot 100[17]	11
US Billboard Developed Contemporary[17]	5
US Billboard Mainstream Rock[17]	7
US Cash Box Superlative 100[18]	7

Certifications [edit]

Notes [edit]

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

References [edit]

1. ^ "Supertramp – Information technology's Raining Again". Acclaimed Music. Retrieved 30 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 January 2021.
4. ^ "The Official Charts Visitor – Supertramp – It'southward Raining Again". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
5. ^ "Supertramp – It's Raining Over again – austriancharts.at". Retrieved 22 Feb 2009.
6. ^ "Item Brandish – RPM – Library and Athenaeum Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 15 January 1983. Retrieved xi July 2019.
7. ^ "Peak Singles – Volume 37, No. 18, December 18, 1982". RPM. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
8. ^ "dutchcharts.nl – Supertramp – It'southward Raining Again". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
9. ^ "De Nederlandse Top 40, week 47, 1982". Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
10. ^ "Supertramp – It's Raining Again" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 16 Feb 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 Feb 2009.
13. ^ "Supertramp – Information technology'south Raining Again". Top twoscore Singles. Retrieved sixteen February 2021.
14. ^ "norwegiancharts.com – Supertramp – Information technology'south Raining Again". Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
15. ^ "South African Charts 1965-1989".
16. ^ "Supertramp – It's Raining Over again – hitparade.ch". Retrieved 22 February 2009.
17. ^ ^{a b c} "allmusic – Supertramp – Billboard singles". Retrieved 22 Feb 2009.
18. ^ "Greenbacks Box Summit 100 Singles, January 15, 1983". Archived from the original on three June 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
19. ^ "Canadian unmarried certifications – Supertramp – It'southward Raining Again". Music Canada.

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