Here Comes the Sun: Why Weather Influenced the Music of the '60s

AccuWeather ^ | July 30, 2015 | Mark Lebberfinger

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’ve always liked this song, ‘Snow’ by Red Hot Chili Peppers. (Pretty sure he’s not singing about the cold, wet stuff.) Actually, I don’t know WHAT the hell he’s singing about, but it’s Ear Candy to me, LOL!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7MhpFF1vv0

[Charles Martel]

I like the Chet and Jerry version of "Summertime", from 1992:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3N6Jv8HCqM

Check out the fretless guitar.

[Hawthorn]

What about anything by Hugo WINTERHALTER, Bruce SPRINGsteen or Johnny WINTER?

[Fiji Hill]

Some of my favorite weather-related songs:

• Here Comes the Sun--Katherine Smith

• Singin' in the Rain--Jack Miller

• Singin' in the Bathtub (answer to "Singin' in the Rain")--King Nawahi's Hawaiians

• The Clouds Will Soon Roll By--Bert Ambrose & His Orchestra

• We've Got to Put The Sun Back In the Sky--Roane's Pennsylvanians

• Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella--Roger Wolfe Kahn

• Ill Wind--Leo Reisman & His Orchestra

• Weatherman--George Hall & His Orchestra

• Hallelujah! There's a Rainbow in the Sky!--Vernon Dalhart

• Look for the Silver Lining--Marion Harris

[odds]

I think it’s a 1970s song; still one of my favorites.
“I can see clearly now” - Johnny Nash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FscIgtDJFXg

[Tucker39]

Bobbi McGee.....with them windshield wipers slappin’ time, and Bobbi clappin’ hands, we.....

Another rain song.....In the cold Kentucky? rain, with a dollar in my hand, and an achin’ in my heart, and my pockets full of sand....out on Runway Number Nine; 707 set to go. But I’m stuck here on the ground...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oh, VERY nice! :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

That 1935 ‘mix’ is really nice!

[Hawthorn]

I wish somebody would compile a database about songs with astronomical imagery, for example (in no particular order):

Lucky Old Sun
Sun in the Morning & the Moon at Night
Moon River
Star Dust
Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
No Moon at All
The Planets (Gustav Holtz)
Carolina Moon
Blue Moon (You Saw Me Standing Alone)
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Polkadots and Moonbeams
Midnight Sun
Moonlight in Vermont
Shine On Harvest Moon
O Sole Mio
Moon Over Miami
Moonlight on the Ganges
Moonlight Becomes You
Moonlight Sonata
Moonlight Serenade
What a Little Moonlight Can do
Star Spangled Banner
Sunrise, Sunset
You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Earth Angel

[Fiji Hill]

Sometimes the weather can get really bad.

• The Mississippi Flood--Al Craver (aka Vernon Dalhart) (1927 Lower Mississippi Valley flood)

• The Storm That Struck Miami--Fiddlin' John Carson (1926 Miami Hurricane)

• The Porto Rico Storm--The Carson Robison Trio (1928 Lake Okeechobee Hurricane)

• Dusty Skies--Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1931-1939 Western Plains drought)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Here’s a ton more:

http://www.dennydavis.net/poemfiles/sunmoonst.htm

[Blue Collar Christian]

Everybody sings about the weather but only the Democrats have legislated against it.

Kind of a morphing of a joke stolen from Jay Leno.

[Demiurge2]

Best Beatles comment on British weather:
“Sitting in an English garden, waiting for the sun - if the sun don’t come we’ll get a tan from sitting in the English rain.”

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Since the Mayans, anyway! :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘Windy’ by The Association! How could I have forgotten this charmer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPYT9Vyu62A

[Hawthorn]

>> Here’s a ton more <<

A fantastic list! Thanks!

And how could I have forgotten my faves like:

How High the Moon
Fly Me to the Moon
Stars Fell on Alabama
Swingin’ on a Star
Full Moon and Empty Arms
Chapel in the Moonlight
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
East of the Sun (& West of the Moon)
Only a Paper Moon
etc, etc, etc!

[fatima]

Thanks for the ping dfwgator :)

[Buckeye McFrog]

Who would get away with calling a woman Windy today?
She’d think you were either saying she talked too much,
or was flatulent.