I love a rainy night
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I Love a Rainy Night is a 1980 song by Eddie Rabbitt written by him, Even Stevens, and David Malloy. The latter also produced the song that appeared on the album Horizon .
history
According to music historian Fred Bronson, I Love a Rainy Night took twelve years to complete. Rabbitt kept a collection of old tapes in the basement of his house. When he rummaged through in 1980, he came across a demo with a rough version of the song from the late 1960s.
"It brought back the memory of sitting in a small apartment, staring out the window at one o'clock in the morning, watching the rain come down." (German: I still remember how I sat in my small apartment at the time and saw the rain pouring outside at one o'clock at night.) Wrote Bronson after the words of Rabbitt in an interview with The Billboard Book of Number One Hits magazine . He sang in his tape recorder : "I love a rainy night, I love a rainy night." (German: I love a rainy night, I love a rainy night.)
After Rabbitt found the old lyrics, he completed them with Stevens and Malloy. In the version he recorded song and released it as a single on November 8, 1980.
After the revision, the song is about a man who finds his peace on rainy nights as well as in thunder, "I love to hear the thunder / watch the lightnin 'when it lights up the sky / you know it makes me feel good" ( German: I love to hear the thunder, to see the lightning flash in the sky and then I feel so good too) and in the rainy weather sees his hope: "Showers wash all my cares away / I wake up to a sunny day" ( German: It just showered away my worries and I woke up out of bed).
A musical specialty is the alternating rhythm of "snapping" and " clapping ", which was recorded with the help of drummer Farrell Morris , according to The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits .
The song could be heard in the episode Pedro Griffin from Family Guy , as well as the series The Blacklist and Mindhunter . It was also used on the K-Rose radio station in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas .
Cover versions
- 1981: The Chipmunks
- 1990: Lecia Jønsson (Drømmer lidt om dig)
- 2003: Hit Crew
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart placements: chartsurfer.de accessed March 22, 2020
- ↑ Translation in Lyrics-ubersetzung.com