The Rainmakers (album)

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The Rainmakers
The Rainmakers The Rainmakers Album Cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1986
RecordedMarch–April 1986 at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
Genre Pop rock
Length40:13
Label Mercury
Producer Terry Manning
The Rainmakers chronology
The Rainmakers
(1986)
Tornado
(1987)
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The Rainmakers is the debut album by the Rainmakers, produced by Terry Manning and released in 1986. It is their highest-charting album on the Billboard albums chart, reaching No. 85, and contains the single "Let My People Go-Go", which reached No. 18 on the UK Singles Chart.

Contents

A remastered version of the album was released in 2010 with four additional tracks.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Bob Walkenhorst except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rockin' at the T-Dance" 3:19
2."Downstream" 3:32
3."Let My People Go-Go" 3:39
4."Doomsville" 4:30
5."Big Fat Blonde" 2:58
6."Long Gone Long" 4:09
7."The One That Got Away" 2:54
8."Government Cheese" 2:56
9."Drinkin' On the Job" 3:46
10."Nobody Knows"Steve Phillips3:33
11."Information"Alan Clutter4:52
12."Carpenter's Son (bonus track)" 3:29
13."Rockabilly Standard (bonus track)"Jay Floyd2:59
14."Long Gone Long (acoustic version) (bonus track)" 3:45
15."Doomsville (live) (bonus track)" 5:04

Personnel

The Rainmakers

Additional musicians

Charts

Chart (1986)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [2] 85
Chart (1987)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [3] 91
Singles
YearSingleChartPosition
1987"Let My People Go-Go" UK Singles Chart 18

Notes

  1. The Rainmakers at AllMusic
  2. "The Alan Parsons Project Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 246. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.

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