Poetry Cafe 24: Rain

Texts read and Music played

1. It’s raining in my heart sung by Buddy Holly, 1959
2. Poem Il pleure dans mon coeur (It rains in my heart) by Paul Verlaine
3. Early morning rain, composed and sung by Gordon Lightfoot, 1966
4. Crying in the rain sung by the Everly Brothers, 1962
5. Poem Capturing the sound of rain by Raymond A. Foss
6. Rhythm of the rain by The Cascades, 1962
7. Poem, Rain in summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
8. Singing in the rain, sung by Gene Kelly, 1952
9. Poem, Who likes the rain? by Clara Doty Bates
10. Poem, Morning Rain by Tu Fu
11. Jardins sous la pluie by Claude Debussy
12. Poem, The Rain by William Henry Davies
13. Isn’t this a lovely day to be caught in the rain, sung by Fred Astaire, 1935
14. Raindrops Prelude by Fréderic Chopin
15. Don’t rain on my parade from Funny Girl, sung by Barbra Streisand, 1964
16. Cloudburst from Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofé, 1931