Song 775: This week the playlist comes around to Rhythm Of the Rain by The Cascades, written by John Claude Gummoe, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Ordinarily you might think April would be the appropriate month to highlight this classic, but in the Northeast, we had a lot of wet weather in May and the first half of June, with the coming week's forecast so far indicating more of the same pattern. I might possibly have heard this drizzle anthem when it first appeared in the fall of 1962, but before the Fab Four rocked my world in February of 1964, I rarely paid attention to the airwaves. Around the middle of the next decade, though, as I resided in Evanston, IL, as a young adult, at least one radio station in the area had shows that featured hits from that first rocking decade, and I soon got to know this one well enough to sing along when it rose out of the speakers. Back then, I did sometimes listen to the rhythm of the falling rain telling me what a fool I had been, and that pitter patter lesson gave me a clearer idea of which direction to head towards in the near future.
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