RIBS: “In The Rain”

September 28, 2006 by tgrundy · 5 Comments
Filed under: music, podcasts/mixes, soul 

A little later than originally promised but here is the latest offering from the RIBS kitchen…
RIBS-In The Rain
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Right-click here to download .MP3 file (72Mb)

Playlist:

  1. Tower Of Power - Some Days Were Meant For Rain
  2. The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain
  3. Tina Turner - I Can’t Stand The Rain
  4. Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky Is Crying
  5. The Doors - Riders On The Storm (chill out remix)
  6. Brook Benton - Rainy Night In Georgia
  7. The Dramatics - In The Rain
  8. Santana - Stormy
  9. Boyz II Men - Can You Stand The Rain? (a cappella)
  10. New Edition - Can You Stand The Rain?
  11. Grover Washington, Jr. - Can You Stop The Rain?
  12. Ashanti - Rain On Me
  13. Jamie Foxx - Storm (Forecass)
  14. Love Unlimited - Walking In The Rain (With The One I Love)
  15. Carpenters - Rainy Days And Mondays
  16. Teena Marie - Black Rain
  17. Smokey Robinson - Quiet Storm

This, as you can obviously tell, is a “rain” themed mix. Back over the Labor Day weekend when it was just pouring down rain on Saturday and looked like the weekend was going to be a total washout, I started wondering about all of the different songs that have “rain” in the title and/or were about rain or inclement weather. As it turns out there are a lot of them, quite a lot. One interesting fact I uncovered while researching songs for this mix is that “there are, in fact, according to The Muze (muze.com), over 5,000 albums containing at least one song with the word ‘rain’ in their title, just since 1960″.

While I didn’t uncover all of those 5,000 during my search, I did find almost a couple of hundred. Then, of course, came the arduous task of filtering through them all to find just the right combination for the playlist. I think that I’ve put together a nice group of songs that have a smooth flow. However, there are so many good rain songs that didn’t make the cut for this mix that I just have to make an “In The Rain 2″ at sometime in the near future.

OBTW… if you download the .MP3 file you just might be able to “hear” the rain and the thunder on some of the songs in the background!

Enjoy!

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