IT'S GONNA RAIN AGAIN

Created on 05/04/2025
Latest update on 07/05/2026

Artist: Sensational Nightingales
Author: Charles Johnson
Label: Peacock
Year: 1970

Title track LP. The author was one of these Nightingales. Song may have roots in the 1930s.

Covers:

1975:

Jimmie Davis [as It's Gonna Rain]

1977:

Persuasions [idem]

1981:

Dion [idem]

1992:

Charles Johnson & The Revivers [idem]

1994:

Take 6

2025:

Candi Staton & Maggie Staton Peebles [Candi's mother sang this constantly; or was that Didn't It Rain? (see there)]

Not to be confused with eponymous songs by The Disciples ('65) and Bobby Womack ('69).

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