HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN FREE

Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler covered the song on her 1983 album Faster Than the Speed of Night. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.īonnie Tyler version 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?'įrom the album Faster Than the Speed of Night US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard) Charts Ĭanada Digital Song Sales ( Billboard) Not teenage years, but specifically your early 20s when you're still growing and trying to become someone.' The story, cowritten by Jacobs and Luke Klompien, is of 'three best friends hanging in Montana until one of them moves away', and includes scenes of the cast 'skipping rocks into the river', 'driving through the countryside in a vintage red Chevy pickup truck watching the sunset and bonding by the fire.' A behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of the video was released June 26, 2019, featuring interviews with the cast and director, and also shows dialogue between the actors. Quaid and Moriarty would go on to star together in 'The Boys.' The video was shot in Montana by director Laurence Jacobs who described it as 'a coming-of-age story' and 'something distinctly real that encapsulated identity. Music video įor the band's 50th anniversary in 2018, a music video was released for 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain' The video stars then up-and-coming actors including Jack Quaid, Sasha Frolova, and Erin Moriarty. In a literal sense, the song describes a sunshower, such as in the lyric 'It'll rain a sunny day' and the chorus, 'Have you ever seen the rain, comin' down on a sunny day?' These events are particularly common in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama, but less common in other parts of the United States, due to localized atmospheric wind shear effects. The band split up in October the following year after the release of the album Mardi Gras. They were rich and famous, but somehow all of the members of the band at the time were depressed and unhappy thus the line 'Have you ever seen the rain, coming down on a sunny day?'. In an interview, Fogerty stated that the song was written about the fact that they were on the top of the charts, and had surpassed all of their wildest expectations of fame and fortune. However, Fogerty himself has said in interviews and prior to playing the song in concert that it is about rising tension within CCR and the imminent departure of his brother Tom from the band.

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN FREE

In his review for AllMusic, Mark Deming suggests that the song is about the idealism of the 1960s and about how it faded in the wake of events such as the Altamont Free Concert and the Kent State shootings, and that Fogerty is saying that the same issues of the 1960s still existed in the 1970s but that people were no longer fighting for them. A music video was released for the band's 50th anniversary on December 11, 2018. John Fogerty released a live version of the song on his The Long Road Home - In Concert DVD which was recorded at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on September 15, 2005. Ĭash Box said the group 'softens their sound' and the song 'comes as close to a ballad as anything from CCR.' In March 2023, the song surpassed one billion streams on Spotify. It was the group's eighth gold-selling single. On Cash Box pop chart, it peaked at number 3. In the U.S., in the same year it peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The song charted highest in Canada, reaching number 1 on the RPM 100 national singles chart in March 1971. ' Have You Ever Seen the Rain' is a song written by John Fogerty and released as a single in 1971 from the album Pendulum (1970) by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain' (lyric video) on YouTube 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain'Ĭreedence Clearwater Revival singles chronology For the Stanley Turrentine album, see Have You Ever Seen the Rain (album).