Richa is the host of Freedom of Expression Challenge. Richa says:

TOPIC FOR TODAY : RAIN/RAINING/RAINDROPS

RULES

1 Do not forget to tag/create a “ping-back!” If ping-backs are not your thing, feel free to simply leave a link to your piece in the comment section below so that everyone can enjoy your entry.
2 You are free to decipher the prompt as per your cognition. No rules, no boundaries!
3 Since we are aiming at catalyzing fun, you get a weeks time to participate. No rush!
4 Be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will be amazed at their brilliant creativity!

First off, let me say that I love the prompt for this week, Richa. Rain is the life-giver! We are a water planet and most of the life-forms on the planet could not survive without water. Because water is such a vital element in each of our lives, it stands to reason that certain feelings are associated with the rain. Unless you are a farmer, you live in a desert climate, or your location is suffering prolonged drought, you won’t jump for joy when the rain begins. Much of the time rain is associated gloom, doom, or, you guessed it, lost love, where the tears follow. Songwriters have been writing about rain for forever. I wonder when the first rain song was written and sung?

As part of the prompt challenge this week, I went out and found a few of my favorite rain songs. Most fit into the lost love or lovelorn motif, but the very first one is from 1942 – yes, 1942! – and the movie, “Bambi,” is different from that this. “Little April Shower” shows Bambi experiencing his first rain.

The next one is The Eurhythmics, performing, “Here Comes the Rain Again” where the rain is, “falling on my head like a memory, falling on my head like a new emotion.”

Dee Clark sings, “Raindrops,” where “Rain keeps falling from my eye-eyes, oh no they can’t be teardrops, for a man ain’t supposed to cry”

BJ Thomas sings, “Raindrops keep falling on my head”, and takes a more optimistic tone with, “The blues they send to meet me won’t defeat me, it won’t be long till happiness steps up to greet me.”

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Eric Clapton changes it up with, “Let it Rain” and sings “The rain is falling through the mist of sorrow that surrounded me, the sun could never thaw away the bliss that lays around me, let it rain.. let your love rain down on me.”

Brook Benton sings “Rainy night in Georgia” and “believes it’s raining all over the world” because of the love he lost.

Gordon Lightfoot sings, “Early Morning Rain” and is “In the early mornin’ rain, with no place to go” as he watches the love of his life fly off in a jet plane.

Prince sings, “Purple Rain” first dedicating it to his father, then saying he wants to see his lover, “laughing in the purple rain.”

“Little April Shower” written by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey
“Here Comes the Rain Again” written by Annie Lennox / David Allan Stewart
“Raindrops” written by :
Zsuzsanna Eve Ward / Evan Kidd Bogart / Peter O. Phillips / Hal David / Burt Bacharach
“Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head” written by Burt Bacharach / Hal David
“Let it Rain” written by Eric Patrick Clapton / Bonnie Lynn Bramlett
“Rainy Night in Georgia” written by Tony White / Tony Joe White
“Early Morning Rain” written by Gordon Lightfoot
“Purple Rain” written by Prince Rogers Nelson