Song of the Day 4/4: Eurythmics, “Here Comes the Rain Again”
H/t KentCoCat, who alerted me with how many days of heavy rainfall Delaware has gotten since the weather was supposed to turn cold – according to this article, triple the historical average. Apparently El Nino is to blame.
Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox wrote this song, a No. 4 hit on the Hot 100, on a rainy day in New York’s Mayflower Hotel. He told Songfacts,
I’d been out on 46th Street and bought an early Casio keyboard, about 20 inches long with very small keys. It was an overcast day. Annie was sitting in my room, and I was playing some little riff on the keyboard sitting on the window ledge, and I was playing these little melancholy A minor-ish chords with the B note in it. I kept on playing this riff, and Annie was looking out the window at the slate grey sky above the New York skyline and just sang spontaneously, ‘Here comes the rain again.’ And that was all we needed.
If we had had cold temps since the start of december we would have had 4 snowfalls of over 2 feet each. thank god for the warmer temps
Boo to warmer temps. I’d have rather been buried in 8 feet in snow.
It is interesting to me how many of these song creation stories discuss how the song burst into life fully formed. I’ve heard the same for long works including novels. No point to make – just interesting.
Also, being Scottish, “Here comes the rain again” was an evergreen prediction for Annie and Dave, even before climate change kicked in full blast.
Also, I’m 100% 1980’s, new wave & MTV. Like those sad old guys who I once looked on as pitiful who clung to Doo-Wop and sock-hoppery with a death grip, Now I’m that pitiful species of human. As KV would say – so it goes.
But where it’s goin’ no one knows.