Summer Rain (Johnny Rivers song)

"Summer Rain"
Single by Johnny Rivers
from the album Realization
B-side "Memory of the Coming Good"
Released November 1967
Length 3:30
Label Imperial 66267
Writer(s) Jim Hendricks
Johnny Rivers singles chronology
"The Tracks of My Tears"
(1967)		 "Summer Rain"
(1967)		 "Look to Your Soul"
(1968)

"Summer Rain" is a song by Johnny Rivers from his 1968 LP Realization. Of his several dozen releases, it is considered his eighth greatest hit internationally.[1]

The song reached No. 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, No. 10 on the U.S. Cash Box Top 100, and No. 10 in Canada in early January, 1968.

"Summer Rain" is a song about lifelong love during "the summer of (casual) love." It was released in the winter, remembering the previous summer. The song twice references Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles album which was released during the middle of that year. Also, the Rascals' song "Groovin'" is mentioned ("All summer long , we spent Groovin' in the sand".) In the album version, the song begins with the sound of a rainstorm with thunder included.

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1967–68) Peak
position
Australia [1] 13
Canada RPM [2] 10
New Zealand [1] 10
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 14
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 [3] 10
U.S. Record World [1] 11
WLS survey (Chicago) [4] 8

Year-end charts

Chart (1967) Rank
Canada 98
Chart (1968) Rank
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [5] 118

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 http://tsort.info/music/nu6kf3.htm
  2. ↑ https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.100157&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=l6c6s8i3iom9sca5e9j0f3ert5
  3. ↑ http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19771029.html
  4. ↑ http://www.oldiesloon.com/il/wls011568.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.bullfrogspond.com/whitburn/1968wye.htm

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