Rainy Day People Explained

Rainy Day People
Cover:	Rainday people.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	Gordon Lightfoot
Album:	Cold on the Shoulder
B-Side:	Cherokee Bend
Released:	March 1975
Genre:	Folk
Length:	2:48
Label:	Reprise
Producer:	Lenny Waronker
Prev Title:	Carefree Highway
Prev Year:	1974
Next Title:	The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Next Year:	1976

"Rainy Day People" is a song written and recorded by Gordon Lightfoot, released on his 1975 album, Cold on the Shoulder, and also as a single. "Rainy Day People" went to number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Lightfoot's last of four songs to reach number one on the Easy Listening chart, spending one week at number one in May 1975.^[1]

Personnel

• Gordon Lightfoot – vocal, acoustic guitar
• Terry Clements – acoustic guitar
• Red Shea – acoustic guitar
• Rick Haynes – bass
• Pee Wee Charles – pedal steel guitar
• Nick DeCaro – piano, string arrangement
• Jim Gordon – drums

Chart performance

Chart (1975)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Top Singles	10
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	26
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	47

See also

• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1975 (U.S.)

Notes and References

1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn

   . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Joel Whitburn . 2002 . Record Research . 146.