The day the rain came (song)

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The day the rain came is the title of the German-language cover version of a French chanson sung by Dalida in 1959 , which became the singer's greatest success in Germany.

History of origin

Dalida: Gondolier (Le jour où la pluie viendra)

Gilbert Bécaud (music) composed the chanson Le jour où la pluie viendra ("The day when the rain will come") together with Pierre Delanoë (text) in 1957 . The composer Bécaud was the first to perform it live at the Olympia in Paris on October 10, 1957 . It was released as a studio recording on November 30, 1957 as the B-side of his single Il fait des bons ... (Marconi 7 GF 437) and in January 1958 on the EP La Ville with the Raymond Bernard orchestra (Marconi 7 EGF 296). Dalida took over her version with the Orchestra Raymond Lefèvre on her EP Gondolier (With All My Heart) , which was released in December 1957 (Barclay 70116). She was with the Paris record label Barclay Records , owned by Nicole and Eddie Barclay , since 1956 under contract. In France, she received her first gold record for over 300,000 singles sold by Bambino on September 17, 1957 (February 1957; first place in the French charts ).

In Germany, Dalida was under contract with the record label Ariola , founded in April 1958 . When Ernst Bader wrote a German text for Bécaud's melody under the title On the day when the rain came , the German music publisher Rolf Marbot, who lives in Paris, produced the hit in the German version with Dalida in the Paris Barclay studio. In the text, the dried up natural landscape waiting for rain is compared in an allegory with a longing for love.

Publication and Success

Dalida: The day the rain came

The single on the day when the rain came / melody from old times (Ariola 35 686) with the orchestra Raymond Lefèvre was released in May 1959 as Dalida's first single in Germany. The orchestra had already accompanied her on her original recording. It landed her first and most successful German hit. The bad weather song reached number one on the German hit parade for seven weeks from August 1, 1959, in the "summer of the century" . In the annual hit parade of the specialist magazine Musikmarkt , it was ranked 6. On July 15, 1959, the German specialist music magazine Musikmarkt appeared with Dalida on the cover. The magazine judged Dalida's hit that it was “a battle won for the cultivated, sophisticated hit”. In the music market "record bestseller" it was ranked 2. For more than 300,000 copies sold, it received the gold record. Dalida's success was also due to the marketing coordinated between Ariola and Bertelsmann Lesering .

Cover versions

In total, there are at least 36 cover versions of the French original. In 1959 there were at least eight German versions that were supposed to share in the success of the rain ballad. These included versions by Renee Ray ( Renée Franke ; March 1959), Roberto Blanco (Philips 345145), Tony Sandler (Ariola 35 704), Liane Augustin , a trumpet version by Heinz Schachtner and Jenny Petra . As early as 1958 there was an English version with the text by Carl Sigman under the title The Day the Rains Came . Jane Morgan adopted this version in August 1958 (US rank 21), which was launched in Great Britain in December 1958 and became a number one hit there on January 23, 1959 . Maureen Evans (January 1959) and Helen Shapiro (EP Tops With Me ; March 1962) brought out other English versions. Dalida had meanwhile published the title La pioggia cadrà (“The rain falls”; February 1959) in her native Italian language .

The Dalida hit appeared in two movies, Girls for the Mambo Bar (premiered July 23, 1959) and The Day When the Rain Came ; it was shot between September and October 1959 in Berlin and Munich (premiere on November 24, 1959 in Stuttgart) and adopted the version sung by Dalida and an instrumental version by the Martin Böttcher orchestra . On November 17, 1959, Dalida received the Bronze Lion from Radio Luxemburg in Wiesbaden. Dalida brought a in October 1985 Disco - Remix out.

Barbara Sukowa sings the chanson in 1981 in a stage scene in the film of the same name, Lola, by director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Musikmarkt, issue 1/1959 of July 15, 1959, p. 29
  2. ↑ Uwe Lechner, Der Musikmarkt, 30 Years of Single Hit Parade , 1989, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Uwe Lechner, Der Musikmarkt, 30 Years of Single Hit Parade , 1989, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Uwe Lechner, Der Musikmarkt, 30 Years of Single Hit Parade , 1989, p. 7.
  5. ↑ Ernst Probst: Superfrauen 10- Musik und Tanz , 2001, p. 55.
  6. ↑ Thomas Lehning: Das Medienhaus: Past and Present of the Bertelsmann Group , 2004, p. 170.