Its Raining Again and Its So Hot

Quick facts for kids "It's Raining Again"
Single by Supertramp
from the anthology ...Famous Last Words...
B-side	"Bonnie"
Released	October 1982 (1982-10)
Genre	Pop rock, jazz rock, art rock, soft rock
Length	4:24
Characterization	A&G
Songwriter(s)	Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson
Producer(southward)	Supertramp, Peter Henderson
Supertramp singles chronology
"Breakfast in America (live)" (1981) "It's Raining Once again" (1982) "My Kind of Lady" (1983)

"It's Raining Again" is a song recorded past English language progressive stone band Supertramp and released as a unmarried from their 1982 album …Famous Last Words… with credits given to Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, although every bit indicated on the album sleeve, it is a Hodgson composition. The cease of the vocal incorporates the onetime nursery rhyme "It'southward Raining, Information technology's Pouring".

All of the voices on the studio version of the track are Hodgson's. In live versions on the accompanying Famous Last Words bout, John Helliwell and Scott Page sang the lower harmonies on stage while Hodgson sang higher parts. For the near part, the song is upbeat.

Contents

• Music video
• Track listings
  • vii-inch vinyl
• Personnel
• Chart functioning
• Certifications

Music video

The song'southward video was directed past hereafter Highlander manager Russell Mulcahy and conceptualized by Keith Williams.

In the video, a man drives a beat-up convertible through a dust storm to a minor boondocks buffet to bring a bouquet to his girlfriend, who is a waitress in that location. A co-worker easily him a Dear John letter. After having his parked car ticketed for heading the incorrect style, he spends a forgettable night at the Pickwick Drive-In movie "Famous Last Words" (reminding viewers near Supertramp's album), seeing himself on the film, watching another couple embrace in the car side by side to his, and coming together a small-scale child with silver teeth, who points out that his machine's left rear wheel is missing.

The side by side day the man, now on the street outside the buffet without his machine, kisses the immature girl, leaves the bouquet with her, and with his suitcase boards a jitney 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 of him, next to a lady putting on lipstick and wearing a white wig that receives a paper airplane thrown past another passenger. Awakened by the driver at the station, the man, now the last rider yet on the coach, finds himself without anything in his pockets, presumably having been robbed, but still with his suitcase. He thumbs down two rednecks in a pickup truck, who observe him easy pickings for practical jokes, pitch him onto Hollywood Boulevard, and throw his suitcase onto him. After a brusk walk, encountering more rough people, the human suffers a dorsum aisle chirapsia in which he is stripped to his underwear and robbed of his suitcase. An erstwhile lady gives him an orange umbrella just before rain begins to deluge the aisle. In spite of a ocean of black umbrellas, he accidentally runs into his true honey, who is under a xanthous umbrella, and the two embrace and dance together in the rain. The sea of blackness umbrellas disappears. This last encounter is what had appeared and now appears at the end of the aforementioned drive-in movie. As the photographic 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'south nursery rhyme "it's raining, it's pouring..."

The five members of Supertramp all appear in the video. At the outset, John Helliwell is a street musician playing an alto saxophone. Earlier the start chorus, Dougie Thomson appears as the coach driver (this was the last filmed video where Thomson would announced with his and so 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

7-inch vinyl

Side one
No.	Championship	Length
1.	"It's Raining Again"	4:25

Side 2
No.	Title	Length
i.	"Bonnie"	5:37

Personnel

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

Chart operation

The song debuted at No. 31 on 30 Oct 1982 on the Billboard Hot 100, condign the highest debut on that chart for all of 1982, and peaked at No. 11. The record was a big success on the European charts, reaching the top 10 in Republic of austria, the Netherlands, Deutschland, Norway, and Switzerland, and No. ane in French republic. This was the group'southward final top 40 hit on the Uk singles chart.

Nautical chart (1982–83)	Superlative position
Uk Singles Chart	26
Austrian Singles Nautical chart	7
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary	1
Canadian RPM Singles Chart	4
Dutch GfK Charts	six
Dutch Top 40	vi
France (SNEP)	199
German Singles Chart	3
Irish gaelic Singles Chart	16
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)	19
Norwegian Singles Chart	six
South Africa	6
Swiss Singles Nautical chart	2
U.s. Billboard Hot 100	11
US Billboard Adult Contemporary	5
US Billboard Mainstream Rock	7
Us Cash Box Top 100	7

Certifications

• Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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