Rainy Day People

1975 single by Gordon Lightfoot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"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]

B-side"Cherokee Bend"
ReleasedMarch 1975
Length2:48
Quick facts Single by Gordon Lightfoot, from the album Cold on the Shoulder ...
"Rainy Day People"
Single by Gordon Lightfoot
from the album Cold on the Shoulder
B-side"Cherokee Bend"
ReleasedMarch 1975
GenreFolk
Length2:48
LabelReprise
SongwriterGordon Lightfoot
ProducerLenny Waronker
Gordon Lightfoot singles chronology
"Carefree Highway"
(1974)
"Rainy Day People"
(1975)
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
(1976)
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Chart performance

More information Chart (1975), Peak position ...
Chart (1975) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Top Singles[2] 10
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary[3] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 26
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening[5] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles[6] 47
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