I WISH IT WOULD RAIN

Created on 11/08/2003
Latest update on 20/02/2024

Artist: Temptations
Author: Norman Whitfield/Barrett Strong/Rodger Penzabene
Label: Gordy
Year: 1967

(To Hide These Tears). N°1 R&B. Author Rodger Penzabene killed himself one week after this song's release. He wrote it the moment he found out his wife had someone else.

Covers:

1968:

Gladys Knight & The Pips

1968:

Chambers Brothers

1968:

Maxine Brown

1969:

Ike & Tina Turner

1970:

Marvin Gaye

1972:

Johnny Adams

1973:

Faces

1973:

Marvin Gaye [B-side of Let's Get It On]

1975:

Bobby Womack

1978:

Steve Harley

1978:

Rare Earth

1981:

Bob Dylan [during Shot Of Love sessions; out on Bootleg Series Vol 16]

1981:

Q-Tips

1983:

Aretha Franklin

1988:

John Hiatt [part of the Temptations melody in his Feels Like Rain]

1994:

Greg Kihn

1994:

Percy Sledge

2002:

Paul Carrack

2022:

Bruce Springsteen

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