I am now pretty confident that the songs below will be the ones we sing in this choir. The only change from those I showed previously is that Sheryl Crow’s “Weather Channel” is replaced with “Rainy Days and Mondays”. (A number of people felt the Sheryl Crow song was just too good a description of depression.)
We will try three songs per week for the first six weeks. On the sixth week we will select eight to ten of the songs, polish them in week seven, and in week eight we’ll perform them in a “concert” for friends, relatives and whoever else we can convince to come. It’s always a lot of fun.
Week 1 – Songs About the Actual Weather (not metaphors for something else)
- California Dreaming – The Mamas and the Papas
- Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia) – GANGgajang
- April Sun In Cuba – Dragon
Week 2 – The Weather and Relationships
- Stormy Weather – most famously Billie Holliday
- Clouds – The Go-Betweens
- Come On In My Kitchen – Robert Johnson [Link is a version by Eric Clapton]
Week 3 – The Weather Apocalypse
- A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall – Bob Dylan [The Bryan Ferry version]
- Before The Deluge – Jackson Browne
- It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls
Week 4 – Moody Weather
- Blue Skies – Irving Berlin [Link is Frank Sinatra’s version]
- Rainy Days and Mondays – The Carpenters
- Weather With You – Crowded House
Week 5 – Bring Your Brolly
- Raining In My Heart – Buddy Holly [The Leo Sayer version]
- Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head – Burt Bacharach
- Bus Stop – The Hollies
Week 6 – New Perspectives
- Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell
- Here Comes The Sun – George Harrison
- Over the Rainbow – most famously Judy Garland
Comments on songs or anything else are still most welcome – leave a reply on this page or if you prefer, email me –
bullen.rob@gmail.com.