Rainy Day People

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1975 single by Gordon Lightfoot

"Rainy Day People"

Single by Gordon Lightfoot
from the album  Cold on the Shoulder
B-side| "Cherokee Bend"
Released| March 1975
Genre| Folk
Length| 2:48
Label| Reprise
Songwriter(s)| Gordon Lightfoot
Producer(s)| Lenny Waronker
Gordon Lightfoot singles chronology
| "Carefree Highway"
(1974)  | "Rainy Day People"
(1975)  | "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
(1976)

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"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]

## Personnel[edit]

* Gordon Lightfoot – vocal, acoustic guitar
* Terry Clements – acoustic guitar
* Red Shea – acoustic guitar
* Rick Haynes – bass
* Pee Wee Charles – pedal steel guitar
* Nick DeCaro – piano, string arrangement
* Jim Gordon – drums

## Chart performance[edit]

Chart (1975)  | Peak
position

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Canadian RPM Top Singles  | 10
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary  | 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100  | 26
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening  | 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles  | 47

## See also[edit]

* List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1975 (U.S.)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 146.

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Gordon Lightfoot

Studio albums|

* Lightfoot! (1966)
* The Way I Feel (1967)
* Did She Mention My Name? (1968)
* Back Here on Earth (1968)
* Sit Down Young Stranger (1970)
* Summer Side of Life (1971)
* Don Quixote (1972)
* Old Dan's Records (1972)
* Sundown (1974)
* Cold on the Shoulder (1975)
* Summertime Dream (1976)
* Endless Wire (1978)
* Dream Street Rose (1980)
* Shadows (1982)
* Salute (1983)
* East of Midnight (1986)
* Waiting for You (1993)
* A Painter Passing Through (1998)
* Harmony (2004)
* Solo (2020)

Compilation albums|

* Gord's Gold (1975)
* Gord's Gold Volume II (1988)
* Songbook (1999)

Live albums|

* Sunday Concert (1969)
* All Live (2012)

Singles|

* "I'm Not Sayin'" (1965)
* "Ribbon of Darkness" (1965)
* "Early Morning Rain" (1966)
* "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (1967)
* "Bitter Green" (1968)
* "Me and Bobby McGee" (1970)
* "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970)
* "Beautiful" (1972)
* "Sundown" (1974)
* "Carefree Highway" (1974)
* "Rainy Day People" (1975)
* "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976)

Related articles|

* Discography
* "Tears Are Not Enough"
* Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind (2019)

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