[Diana in Wisconsin]

Ping-Worthy? ;)

[equaviator]

“The group has developed a database of the songs and is looking for any additions it may have missed.”

Here’s one I bet they don’t have and I’ll probably think of a few more before the day is through...

“My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains” by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band.

[gorush]

It seems that when humans find themselves in a position where they must interact with others, and they really have nothing to say, they talk about the weather. I am convinced it is a condition caused by globull warming. If I just had a few million in grant money I could prove it.

[Dr. Sivana]

Del Shannon is in there. Two of his biggest hits, “Runaway” (I’m a Walkin’ in the Rain) and “Keep Searchin’ (We’ll Follow the Sun)”.

My favortie song in the weather genre is “Kentucky Rain”. Elvis wakes up one morning, finds his wife has run off, and starts off on foot in the rain to find her, as she apparently fled on foot. Between the two of them, they lived in rural Kentucky, and didn’t have a vehicle between them?!

[SamAdams76]

The summer of 1979 was an especially hot and humid one in parts of the U.S.

So there were a couple of minor pop hits from that summer that remind me of those hot days.

"Hot Summer Nights" by Night. This song sounds great blasting through the car speakers on a hot summer night, as you are cruising the beach strip. Makes me want to order a box of fried clams.

"Walking in the Rain" by Flash And The Pan. There was a lot of thunderstorm activity during the hot summer of 1979. I used to like to walk outside that summer, especially at night, for hours, as the "heat lightning" flashed on the horizon. Sometimes, the storm would move in and I'd be surrounded by wind, heavy rain and lots of thunder. This song reminds me of those walks. "Midnight Wind" by John Stewart (also from 1979) also brings back memories of those long walks.

[Buckeye McFrog]

For example, George Harrison wrote "Here Comes the Sun" on the day of the first sunshine of the year in April 1969, Brown explained.

First peek at the sun is in April. Typical Britain.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

The Temptations. I Wish it Would Rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-es4Q8AJaU

Mayer Hawthorn. I Wish It Would Rain. Not the same song, but SO sweet. Loves me some Mayer whenever I feel sad. :)

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

[samtheman]

I liked Joplin’s version of Summertime.

[crusty old prospector]

I thought it was influenced by drugs.

[Hawthorn]

I’ve gotta go home.

But baby, it’s cold outside!

[Hawthorn]

Dashing thru the snow in a one-horse open shay?

[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

[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)

[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]

[mrsmith]

“Rained all day, the day I left the weather it was dry!”

Those crazy hippies!!

[norwaypinesavage]

It was REALLY COLD in the 60s. I went to college in northern Minnesota then. I even generated a gallon jug of chlorine gas that I placed on my porch, after learning in a chemistry class that I could liquefy it at - 39 degrees F. We had already experienced several days below -40.

I was also a Beatles fan. My only possession when I graduated from college was a self designed 'bass reflex' speaker that I used to play Beatles songs. When I left home, it was the only thing that fit in my Corvair convertible, so that's all I took with me.

[x]

Could it be that rock musicians just aren't that deep and can't concentrate on anything that's not obvious?

Or maybe Bill Ayers wrote all the songs -- weather imagery and all.