Rainy Day People
1975 single by Gordon Lightfoot
"Rainy Day People" | ||||
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Single by Gordon Lightfoot | ||||
from the album Cold on the Shoulder | ||||
B-side | "Cherokee Bend" | |||
Released | March 1975 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 2:48 | |||
Label | Reprise | |||
Songwriter(s) | Gordon Lightfoot | |||
Producer(s) | Lenny Waronker | |||
Gordon Lightfoot singles chronology | ||||
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"Rainy Day People" is a song written and recorded by Gordon Lightfoot, released on his 1975 album, Cold on the Shoulder, and also as a single. "Rainy Day People" went to number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Lightfoot's last of four songs to reach number one on the Easy Listening chart, spending one week at number one in May 1975.[1]
Personnel
- Gordon Lightfoot – vocal, acoustic guitar
- Terry Clements – acoustic guitar
- Red Shea – acoustic guitar
- Rick Haynes – bass
- Pee Wee Charles – pedal steel guitar
- Nick DeCaro – piano, string arrangement
- Jim Gordon – drums
Chart performance
Chart (1975) | Peak position |
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Canadian RPM Top Singles | 10 |
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary | 1 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 26 |
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening | 1 |
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 47 |
See also
- List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1975 (U.S.)
References
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 146.
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Gordon Lightfoot
- Lightfoot! (1966)
- The Way I Feel (1967)
- Did She Mention My Name? (1968)
- Back Here on Earth (1968)
- Sit Down Young Stranger (1970)
- Summer Side of Life (1971)
- Don Quixote (1972)
- Old Dan's Records (1972)
- Sundown (1974)
- Cold on the Shoulder (1975)
- Summertime Dream (1976)
- Endless Wire (1978)
- Dream Street Rose (1980)
- Shadows (1982)
- Salute (1983)
- East of Midnight (1986)
- Waiting for You (1993)
- A Painter Passing Through (1998)
- Harmony (2004)
- Solo (2020)
- Gord's Gold (1975)
- Gord's Gold Volume II (1988)
- Songbook (1999)
- Sunday Concert (1969)
- All Live (2012)
- "I'm Not Sayin'" (1965)
- "Ribbon of Darkness" (1965)
- "Early Morning Rain" (1966)
- "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (1967)
- "Bitter Green" (1968)
- "Me and Bobby McGee" (1970)
- "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970)
- "Beautiful" (1972)
- "Sundown" (1974)
- "Carefree Highway" (1974)
- "Rainy Day People" (1975)
- "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976)
- Discography
- "Tears Are Not Enough"
- Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind (2019)
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