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1984 single by Eurythmics

"Hither Comes the Rain Again"
Eurythmics HCTRA.jpg
Single past Eurythmics
from the album Touch
B-side "Paint a Rumour"
Released 12 January 1984
Recorded 1983
Genre
  • New wave
  • synth-pop
Length 4:54 (album version)
5:05 (single version)
4:43 (video version)
three:l (7" promo version)
Characterization RCA
Songwriter(due south)
  • Annie Lennox
  • David A. Stewart
Producer(s) David A. Stewart
Eurythmics singles chronology
"Right by Your Side"
(1983) 		"Here Comes the Rain Again"
(1984) 		"Sexcrime (Xix 80-4)"
(1984)
Music video
"Here Comes the Rain Once more" on YouTube

"Here Comes the Pelting Over again" is a 1983 song by British duo Eurythmics and the opening track from their third studio album Touch on. 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'due south third single in the UK and in the United States as the start single. It became Eurythmics' second Summit ten U.S. hit, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. "Here Comes the Rain Again" hit number eight in the U.k. Singles Nautical chart, becoming their fifth sequent Top ten single in their home country.

Vocal 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, because I'm playing a b-minor, simply then I alter it to put a b-natural (sic – the song is in A small-scale) in, and so it kind of feels like that minor is suspended, or major. So it's kind of a weird grade. And of grade that starts the whole vocal, and the whole song was near that undecided affair, like here comes depression, or here comes that downward spiral. But then it goes, 'so talk to me like lovers exercise.' It's the wandering in and out of melancholy, a night dazzler that sort of is like the rose that's when it's darkest unfolding and bloodred just before the garden, dies. And capturing that in kind of oblique statements and sentiments."[two]

Stewart also said he and Lennox wrote the vocal while staying at the Mayflower Hotel in New York Urban center. It was an overcast day, and Stewart was playing "melancholy A minor-ish chords with the B notation in it" on his Casio keyboard. Lennox came over, looked out the window at the grey skies and the New York skyline, and spontaneously sang, "Here comes the rain again". The duo worked out the rest of the song based on that mood.[2] [three]

The string arrangements by Michael Kamen were performed by members of the British Philharmonic Orchestra. All the same, due to the limited space in the studio, the Church, the players had to improvise past 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 "Here Comes the Rain Again" is in actuality about five minutes long and was edited on the Affect album (fading out at approximately 4-and-a-half minutes). Although information technology was edited even further for its unmarried and video release, many U.S. radio stations played the full-length version of it.[ commendation needed ] The entire five-minute version did not announced on any Eurythmics album until the U.S. edition of Greatest Hits in 1991.

In the UK, the single became Eurythmics' fifth Top 10 hit, peaking at #eight. It was the duo'due south second top x hit in the U.s., peaking at #4 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 Dec 1983, a month before the single came out. The video opens with a passing aerial shot of the Old Man of Hoy on the Isle of Hoy in the Orkney Islands before transitioning to Lennox walking along the rocky shore and cliff summit. She afterward explores a derelict cottage while wearing a nightgown and holding a lantern. Stewart stalks her with a video photographic camera. In many scenes the ii are filmed separately, then superimposed into the same frame.[5]

Track listings [edit]

7"
  • A: "Hither Comes The Rain Once again" (vii" Edit) – 3:53
  • B: "Paint A Rumour" (Long Version) – 8:00
12"
  • A: "Here Comes The Pelting Again" (Full Version)* – five:05
  • B1: "This City Never Sleeps" (Live Version, San Francisco '83) – 5:30
  • B2: "Paint A Rumour" (Long Version)* – 8:00

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

Other versions
  • "Here Comes The Pelting Again" (Freemasons Song Mix) – 7:17 / (2009)
  • "Here Comes The Rain Once more" (Freemasons Radio Edit) – 4:41 / (2009)
  • "Here Comes The Pelting Once again (Disconet Extended Version) -6:57 / (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 Dance human action 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 striking by Nozuka, "Last Night", features a riff that is inspired by "Sweet Dreams".[32]
  • The line "Talk to me" is interpolated in Alice DeeJay's song "Better Off Alone".[32]
  • The lyrics of the chorus were interpolated in the 1995 song "Tragedy" by RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan.[32]
  • The lyrics "Walk with me, similar lovers exercise/Talk to me, like lovers do" were used in Platinum Weird's song "Taking Chances" which incidentally, was co-written past Stewart. "Taking Chances" was afterwards covered by Celine Dion and released every bit the title rail of her 2007 anthology.[33]
  • The lyrics of the chorus were sampled in Jamaican singer's Nadirah Ten song "Here It Comes" in 2010 on her debut album Ink.[32]
  • Madonna sampled the song on her Sticky & Sugariness Tour in 2008–2009 with her own song Pelting as a video interlude.[32]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Record News". NME. London, England: IPC Media: 28. 7 January 1984.
  2. ^ a b c "Hither Comes The Rain Once more". Songfacts.com . Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  3. ^ Newman, Melinda (seven December 2002). "Annie Lennox: A Portrait of the Artist". Billboard. Vol. 114, no. 49. p. 25. Retrieved six March 2022.
  4. ^ "Eurythmics: Hither Comes the Pelting Once again". IMDb . Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  5. ^ EurythmicsVEVO (25 October 2009), Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again (Remastered) , retrieved 7 June 2017
  6. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Volume 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 105. ISBN0-646-11917-6.
  7. ^ "Eurythmics – Here Comes the Pelting Again" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  8. ^ "Pinnacle RPM Singles: Issue 6277." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Elevation RPM Adult Contemporary: Effect 6709." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  10. ^ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN978-951-i-21053-five.
  11. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Here Comes the Rain Again". Irish Singles Chart.
  12. ^ "Eurythmics – Here Comes the Pelting Again" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  13. ^ "Eurythmics – Here Comes the Pelting Again" (in Dutch). Dutch Superlative 40. Retrieved two June 2020.
  14. ^ "Eurythmics – Here Comes the Pelting Once again". Meridian 40 Singles.
  15. ^ "Eurythmics – Here Comes the Pelting Again". VG-lista.
  16. ^ "Notowanie nr 93" (in Polish). 28 January 1984. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  17. ^ "Eurythmics – Hither Comes the Rain Over again". Singles Top 100.
  18. ^ "Eurythmics – Here Comes the Rain Once again". Swiss Singles Chart.
  19. ^ "Eurythmics: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Visitor. Retrieved two June 2020.
  20. ^ "Eurythmics Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  21. ^ "Eurythmics Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
  22. ^ "Eurythmics Chart History (Dance Club Songs)". Billboard.
  23. ^ "Eurythmics Nautical chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  24. ^ "Cash Box Pinnacle 100 Singles – Week ending April 14, 1984". Greenbacks Box . Retrieved iii June 2020.
  25. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Eurythmics – Here Comes the Rain Once again". GfK Entertainment charts.
  26. ^ "Pinnacle 100 Singles of 1984". RPM. Vol. 41, no. 17. 5 January 1985. p. 7. ISSN 0315-5994. Retrieved two June 2020 – via Library and Archives Canada.
  27. ^ "Hot 100 Songs – Twelvemonth-End 1984". Billboard. ii January 2013. Archived from the original on 25 Feb 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  28. ^ "Trip the light fantastic toe Club Songs – Twelvemonth-Finish 1984". Billboard . Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  29. ^ "The Cash Box Yr-Cease Charts: 1984 – Top 100 Popular Singles". Greenbacks Box. 29 December 1984. Retrieved three June 2020.
  30. ^ "Canadian single certifications – Eurythmics – Here Comes the Rain Once more". Music Canada. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  31. ^ "British unmarried certifications – Eurythmics – Here Comes the Rain Again". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  32. ^ a b c d e f "Here Comes the Rain Again by Eurythmics on WhoSampled". WhoSampled . Retrieved v March 2022.
  33. ^ Wiser, Carl (xx November 2008). "Dave Stewart of Eurythmics : Songwriter Interviews". Songfacts . Retrieved 5 March 2022.

External links [edit]

  • Music video on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Rain_Again

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