Rain Dance (song)

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"Rain Dance"
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Cover of the 1971 Dutch single
Single by The Guess Who
from the album So Long, Bannatyne
B-side "One Divided"
Released July 1971
Recorded1971
Studio RCA's Mid-America Recording Center, Chicago, Illinois
Genre Rock [1]
Length2:45
Label RCA Victor
Songwriter(s) Burton Cummings, Kurt Winter
Producer(s) Jack Richardson
The Guess Who singles chronology
"Albert Flasher"
(1971)
"Rain Dance"
(1971)
"Sour Suite"
(1971)

"Rain Dance" is a song written by Burton Cummings and Kurt Winter and performed by The Guess Who. It was featured on their 1971 album, So Long, Bannatyne . [2] The song was produced by Jack Richardson. [3]

Chart performance

"Rain Dance" reached #3 in Canada, #8 in New Zealand, [4] [5] #19 on the Billboard Hot 100, [6] and #55 in Australia in 1971.

Chart (1988)Peak
position
Argentina (CAPIF) [7] 9

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