The Rainmakers (album)

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The Rainmakers
The Rainmakers The Rainmakers Album Cover.jpg
Studio album by
the Rainmakers
Released1986
RecordedMarch–April 1986
StudioArdent, 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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