- Like the Rain
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Name = Like the Rain
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Artist =Clint Black
Album = Greatest Hits
Released = 1996
Format =CD single
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Genre = Country
Length = 4:23 (album version)
Label =RCA Nashville
Writer = Clint Black,Hayden Nicholas
Producer = Clint Black, James Stroud
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Last single = "Life Gets Away"
(1995)
This single = "Like the Rain"
(1996)
Next single = "Half Way Up"
(1997)"Like the Rain" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American
country music artistClint Black . It was recorded as one of several new tracks for his 1996 "Greatest Hits" package. Released in 1996, the song became his twenty-third chart single, and in October of that year, it became his tenth Number One hit on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (nowHot Country Songs ) charts. It held that position for three weeks, and was one of seven songs that year to hold the #1 position that long. At the 1997Grammy Award s, "Like the Rain" was nominated for the Best Male Country Vocal performance. [cite web |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ST&s_site=dfw&p_multi=ST&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF90F083DA294D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=A Texas-size group of Texans are up for Grammys |accessdate=2008-10-06 |last=Ferman |first=Dave |date=1997-02-26 |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram]Content
"Like the Rain" is a country ballad, backed mainly by
acoustic guitar andpiano , with heavysnare drum accents. The narrator tells of how he "never liked the rain" until he walked through it with his lover. In the chorus, he adds that he "can't believe [he] never liked the rain", and then elaborates that he is "falling for [her] now, just like the rain". The album version features the sounds of rain and thunder at the beginning and end; these sound effects were removed from the radio edit.Black also re-recorded the song, at a slightly slower tempo, for his 2007 compilation "The Love Songs".
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