History of Song Here Comes the Rain Again

1984 single by Eurythmics

"Here Comes the Rain Again"
Single by Eurythmics
from the album Bear upon
B-side	"Paint a Rumour"
Released	12 January 1984
Recorded	1983
Genre	New wave synth-popular
Length	iv:54 (anthology version) 5:05 (single version) 4:43 (video version) 3:l (vii" promo version)
Label	RCA
Songwriter(s)	Annie Lennox David A. Stewart
Producer(south)	David A. Stewart
Eurythmics singles chronology
"Correct past Your Side" (1983) "Hither Comes the Rain Over again" (1984) "Sexcrime (Nineteen 80-4)" (1984)
Music video
"Hither Comes the Rain Again" on YouTube

"Here Comes the Rain Again" is a 1983 song by British duo Eurythmics and the opening rail from their third studio anthology Touch. It was written by group members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart and produced by Stewart. The song was released on 12 January 1984^[1] as the album's third unmarried in the U.k. and in the United States as the first single. It became Eurythmics' second Elevation x U.S. hit, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. "Here Comes the Rain Again" hit number 8 in the UK Singles Nautical chart, becoming their fifth sequent Top 10 unmarried in their home state.

Song data [edit]

Stewart explained to Songfacts that creating a melancholy mood in his songs is something at which he excels. He said: "'Here Comes the Rain Again' is kind of a perfect one where it has a mixture of things, considering I'm playing a b-small, only then I alter it to put a b-natural (sic – the vocal is in A pocket-sized) in, and and so it kind of feels similar that minor is suspended, or major. So it's kind of a weird course. And of class that starts the whole song, and the whole song was nearly that undecided thing, like here comes depression, or here comes that downward spiral. But and then it goes, 'so talk to me like lovers exercise.' Information technology's the wandering in and out of melancholy, a dark beauty that sort of is like the rose that'south when information technology's darkest unfolding and bloodred just earlier the garden, dies. And capturing that in kind of oblique statements and sentiments."^[2]

Stewart besides said he and Lennox wrote the song while staying at the Mayflower Hotel in New York Metropolis. It was an overcast day, and Stewart was playing "melancholy A modest-ish chords with the B note in it" on his Casio keyboard. Lennox came over, looked out the window at the gray skies and the New York skyline, and spontaneously sang, "Here comes the pelting over again". The duo worked out the residue of the song based on that mood.^{[2] [3]}

The string arrangements by Michael Kamen were performed by members of the British Philharmonic Orchestra. However, due to the limited space in the studio, the Church building, the players had to improvise by recording their parts in other parts of the studio. The song was then mixed by blending the orchestral tracks on top of the original synthesized backing track.^[2]

The running time for "Hither Comes the Rain Again" is in actuality about five minutes long and was edited on the Touch anthology (fading out at approximately four-and-a-half minutes). Although it was edited even farther for its single and video release, many U.Due south. radio stations played the full-length version of it.^{[ citation needed ]} The entire five-minute version did not appear on whatever Eurythmics anthology until the U.S. edition of Greatest Hits in 1991.

In the Uk, the single became Eurythmics' fifth Top x hit, peaking at #8. Information technology was the duo'south 2nd height 10 hit in the The states, peaking at #four in March 1984.

Music video [edit]

The music video, featuring both Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, was directed by Stewart, Jonathan Gershfield and Jon Roseman,^[4] and released in December 1983, a calendar month before the single came out. The video opens with a passing aerial shot of the Former Man of Hoy on the Island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands earlier transitioning to Lennox walking along the rocky shore and cliff top. She later explores a derelict cottage while wearing a nightgown and property a lantern. Stewart stalks her with a video camera. In many scenes the two are filmed separately, then superimposed into the same frame.^[5]

Track listings [edit]

7"

• A: "Here Comes The Rain Again" (7" Edit) – 3:53
• B: "Paint A Rumour" (Long Version) – 8:00

12"

• A: "Hither Comes The Rain Again" (Total Version)* – five:05
• B1: "This City Never Sleeps" (Live Version, San Francisco '83) – 5:30
• B2: "Pigment A Rumour" (Long Version)* – viii:00

* both (Versions) are longer than the ones constitute on the Touch on album

Other versions

• "Here Comes The Rain Once more" (Freemasons Vocal Mix) – vii:17 / (2009)
• "Here Comes The Rain Over again" (Freemasons Radio Edit) – 4:41 / (2009)
• "Here Comes The Rain Over again (Disconet Extended Version) -vi:57 / (1984)

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Personnel [edit]

Eurythmics

• Annie Lennox - vocals, keyboard
• Dave Stewart - guitar, keyboard

Additional personnel

• Michael Kamen - conductor
• British Philharmonic - strings

Sampling [edit]

• The song's opening was used in the Belgium Trip the light fantastic toe act Oxy's 1992 single "The Feeling."^[32]
• George Nozuka sings the same note when he says "Talk to me" with a slight stutter on his hit single, "Talk to Me". Some other hit by Nozuka, "Last Nighttime", features a riff that is inspired past "Sugariness Dreams".^[32]
• The line "Talk to me" is interpolated in Alice Disk'south song "Better Off Lone".^[32]
• The lyrics of the chorus were interpolated in the 1995 vocal "Tragedy" by RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan.^[32]
• The lyrics "Walk with me, like lovers do/Talk to me, similar lovers exercise" were used in Platinum Weird's song "Taking Chances" which incidentally, was co-written by Stewart. "Taking Chances" was later covered by Celine Dion and released every bit the title track of her 2007 album.^[33]
• The lyrics of the chorus were sampled in Jamaican singer's Nadirah Ten song "Hither Information technology Comes" in 2010 on her debut album Ink.^[32]
• Madonna sampled the song on her Pasty & Sugariness Tour in 2008–2009 with her own song Rain as a video interlude.^[32]

References [edit]

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24. ^ "Cash Box Elevation 100 Singles – Calendar week ending April 14, 1984". Cash Box . Retrieved 3 June 2020.
25. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Eurythmics – Here Comes the Pelting Once more". GfK Entertainment charts.
26. ^ "Top 100 Singles of 1984". RPM. Vol. 41, no. 17. 5 Jan 1985. p. 7. ISSN 0315-5994. Retrieved 2 June 2020 – via Library and Archives Canada.
27. ^ "Hot 100 Songs – Twelvemonth-Finish 1984". Billboard. two January 2013. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020. Retrieved ii June 2020.
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29. ^ "The Cash Box Year-Finish Charts: 1984 – Acme 100 Pop Singles". Cash Box. 29 December 1984. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
30. ^ "Canadian single certifications – Eurythmics – Here Comes the Pelting Once again". Music Canada. Retrieved viii February 2022.
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32. ^ ^{a b c d due east f} "Here Comes the Rain Once again by Eurythmics on WhoSampled". WhoSampled . Retrieved v March 2022.
33. ^ Wiser, Carl (xx Nov 2008). "Dave Stewart of Eurythmics : Songwriter Interviews". Songfacts . Retrieved 5 March 2022.

External links [edit]

• Music video on YouTube

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