"I'm a Lonesome Little Raindrop (Looking for a Place to Fall)" is a song composed by American songwriter James F. Hanley [1] and lyricists Joe Goodwin and Murray Roth. The tune was originally written for the 1920 musical The Greenwich Village Follies. [2]
The song was recorded in Camden, New Jersey, in November 1920, sung by vocalist Billy Jones (AKA "Victor Roberts"). [3] It was later recorded by Tiny Tim and released on his 1969 children's album For All My Little Friends. [4]
I wonder why I'm always lonesome
and what the trouble can be.
Some fellows claim their mate
but it just seems like fate
has made a monkey out of me.
I'm like a raindrop in a cloud,
I find I'm lost whenever I am in a crowd, believe me,
I'm a lonesome little raindrop
looking for a place to fall.
The clouds are dark but that don't matter,
'cause into some fair garden,
I'll go pitter, patter, pitter, patter.
I hope goodness knows,
the friendly breeze that blows,
will let me tumble down into the heart of a rose.
I'm a lonesome little raindrop
looking for a place to fall.
You've heard of Robinson Crusoe,
well he had nothing on me.
I'm always all alone,
a sweetie of my own,
would make me happy as can be.
I'm just as blue as skies above,
I'd like to find someone
to shower with my love, believe me.
I'm a lonesome little raindrop
looking for a place to fall.
The girls say I'm a charming fella,
but when I come around each girl puts up her umbrella.
Girls that are so fair,
they all give me the air
I keep on falling, falling
but don't land anywhere, oh
I'm a lonesome little raindrop
looking for a place to fall.
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......And They Said It Wouldn't Last is a commemorative box set released to celebrate Cliff Richard's fifty years in the music business. It was released on 15 September 2008. Its release was preceded on 8 September by a new single called "Thank You for a Lifetime" which doesn't appear in the set. The set includes eight CDs, a reproduction of Cliff's first single, a 52-page photo book of Cliff's fifty years in music, and a gold-plated coin bearing the 'Cliff's 50 Anniversary' graphic.
100 Memories is the thirty-first studio album of Bobby Vinton, released in 1979 by the Canadian label Ahed. This album is a cover album of 100 songs from the 1950s to 1970s and contains two LPs. While the album contains 100 songs, they are all recorded as medleys: 1 - 4, 5 - 9, 10 - 14, 15 - 19, 20 - 24, 25 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 38, 39 - 42, 43 - 47, 48 - 51, 52 - 56, 57 - 61, 62 - 66, 67 - 71, 72 - 75, 76 - 80, 81 - 85, 86 - 90, 91 - 95, and 96 through 100.
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The uplifting lyrics describe somebody who overcomes his troubles and worries by realizing that "it won't be long till happiness steps up to greet me."
"Young Girls" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars. It was composed by Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine, a songwriting and record production trio known as the Smeezingtons, as well as Jeff Bhasker, and Emile Haynie, with additional songwriter credits by Mac Davis, for Mars's second studio album Unorthodox Jukebox (2012). It is a midtempo, doo-wop-influenced pop ballad that garnered comparisons to Mars's "It Will Rain" and Lana Del Rey's music. Its instrumentation includes drums, synths, piano and elements of electro music. The song was released as the first promotional single and later as the fifth overall single from Unorthodox Jukebox, being first serviced to contemporary hit radio in Australia on November 26, 2013.
You're the Reason I'm Living is a 1963 album by Bobby Darin. It contains Country and Western music, often with a big band twist, and features arrangements by Jimmie Haskell, Shorty Rogers and Gerald Wilson. The title track was a number three hit single. The album reached number 43 on the Billboard 200 chart.
"Nobody" is a song by Japanese-American singer Mitski, released in 2018 as the second single from her fifth studio album, Be the Cowboy. The Harvard Crimson, considering the song to be about loneliness, wrote that it is eerily upbeat, with melancholic lyrics contradicting its catchy melody.