Is It Raining at Your House explained

Is It Raining at Your House
Type:single
Artist:Vern Gosdin
Album:10 Years of Greatest Hits
B-Side:Today My World Slipped Away
Released:December 1990
Genre:Country
Length:2:59
Label:Columbia
Producer:Bob Montgomery
Prev Title:This Ain't My First Rodeo
Prev Year:1990
Next Title:I Know My Day Will Come
Next Year:1991

"Is It Raining at Your House" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Vern Gosdin. It was released in December 1990 as the second single from his compilation album 10 Years of Greatest Hits, but originally appeared on his 1987 album Chiseled in Stone. The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart; it was Gosdin's last top 10 and top 40 single on the country charts.[1] Gosdin wrote the song with Dean Dillon and Hank Cochran.

Content

The song is in the key of D major. The first verse follows the chord pattern of D-Fm/Cm-G/B-A-D twice, followed by D-Fm-G/B-Gm/B-D-Bm-D/A-G-G/A-D. After this single verse is a bridge following the chord pattern Bm-F-Gm6. In the song, a male narrator asks his former lover if it is "raining at [her] house".[2]

Chart performance

Year-end charts

Cover versions

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 140.
  2. News: Vern Gosdin forecasts new hit . The Tennessean . March 3, 1991 . August 18, 2021 . 40.
  3. Web site: RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1991. RPM. December 21, 1991. August 16, 2013.