Here Comes the Rain Again

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"Here Comes the Rain Again"
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Single by Eurythmics
from the album Touch
B-side "Paint a Rumour"
Released12 January 1984 (1984-01-12)
Recorded1983
Genre
Length4:54 (album version)
5:05 (single version)
4:43 (video version)
3:50 (7" promo version)
Label RCA
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) David A. Stewart
Eurythmics singles chronology
"Right by Your Side"
(1983)		"Here Comes the Rain Again"
(1984)		"Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)"
(1984)
Music video
"Here Comes the Rain Again" on YouTube

"Here Comes the Rain Again" is a 1983 song by British duo Eurythmics and the opening track from their third studio album 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 [3] as the album's third single in the UK and in the United States as the first single.

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It became Eurythmics' second top 10 U.S. hit, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. "Here Comes the Rain Again" hit number eight in the UK Singles Chart, becoming their fifth consecutive top 10 single in their home country.

Song information

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, but then I change it to put a b-natural (sic – the song is in A minor) in, and so it kind of feels like that minor is suspended, or major. So it's kind of a weird course. And of course that starts the whole song, and the whole song was about that undecided thing, like here comes depression, or here comes that downward spiral. But then it goes, 'so talk to me like lovers do.' It's the wandering in and out of melancholy, a dark beauty 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." [4]

Stewart also said he and Lennox wrote the song while staying at the Mayflower Hotel in New York City. It was an overcast day, and Stewart was playing "melancholy A minor-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 rain again". The duo worked out the rest of the song based on that mood. [4] [5]

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, 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. [4]

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

Cash Box said that "Lennox sounds familiarly sultry and wispy, while Dave Stewart’s minor-key composition is laced with pizzicato strings and chiming, open chord guitar work." [6]

In the UK, the single became Eurythmics' fifth Top 10 hit, peaking at number eight. It was the duo's second top ten hit in the United States, peaking at number four in March 1984.

Music video

The music video, featuring both Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, was directed by Stewart, Jonathan Gershfield and Jon Roseman, [7] and released in December 1983, a month before the single came out. The video opens with a passing aerial shot of the Old Man of Hoy on the Island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands before transitioning to Lennox walking along the rocky shore and cliff top. She later explores a derelict cottage while wearing a nightgown and holding a lantern. Stewart stalks her with a video camera. In many scenes the two are filmed separately, then superimposed into the same frame. [8]

Track listings

7" single

12" single

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

Other versions

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "Here Comes the Rain Again"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [32] Gold50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [33] Silver250,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Personnel

Eurythmics

Additional personnel

Sampling

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