Randy Newman - "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" | 2013 Induction
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Randy Newman performs "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" at the 2013 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
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One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
For some reason it had me almost immediately in tears, though I've long refused any kind of self-reckoning.
How profound: "Right before me the signs implore me, help the needy and show them the way. Human kindness, is overflowing; and I think it's going to rain today"
Really beautiful song from one of the legendary songwriters of all time
Yes
But does anyone follow that calling?
@@michaelfebbert737 What do you mean?
Shockingly beautiful and mature piece of music for a 25 year old man's debut album. What a special soul Randy Newman is
A classic, a modern day standard. Tears are flowing.
One of the most prolific singers and songwriters of any generation. This song, these words are simply brilliant.
You know what I like about Randy Newman's music? You won't outgrow it.
The crazy thing about Randy is he's still writing songs as beautiful as this one
How can a song enter your soul on the first notes and tuck your spirit in for the night. I know. It’s the Newman kindness 😊
Thank you, Randy Newman. I wish you well ❤
This song touches the heart and soul of who we are as human beings. Thank you Randy for reminding us.
Especially now my friend😉👍💕☔️⛈🌝but don’t despair-here come dee Sun & all dee warming up with it❤️🏄🏽♀️🏄🏽♀️💋🐥🐥👶🏻👶🏻🤓🤓😺😺😇😇
well said
One of the best songs ever written. ❤️
It’s very hard to describe how I feel about this song. It is just so beautiful, so multifaceted. It make me happy and sometimes sad. Just pure genius. And that unique brilliant voice.
If he only wrote this one song it would be enough. Fills my heart. He’s a national treasure
Pure genius. Randy gets it. He understood this years ago whenever he wrote this song. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and observations on life with all of us.
A master performing his masterpiece.
The most beautiful song...going to have it at my funeral
Beach girl, have you listened to the version from "Beaches," the movie? Bette Midler sings this, and it always makes me cry....
It's sad when we get old enough to start planning things like this for our own funerals. Very, very sad.... 😭 Even though I don't know you, I do hope you are okay.
Hard to believe he wrote this in the mid ‘60s and it’s so fresh. Squeezes your heart in so many ways, nearly 60 year old song - how did he do that? Alway in my top-top favorites that you can’t define where it takes you, like Joanie’s Waters of March. You could spend a day just listening to the incredible covers by the best artists. Thank you for all the beautiful songs, Randy!
Supposed to be Joabim’s Waters of March
Can't dance to it. Won't be on the bar's background music to cheer people up. Won't be a on a wedding singer's repertoire or anybody's workout playlist. A song for those with a soul. A song that on first hearing, I pulled over to listen on the car radio to hear Dusty's cover. Bless you Randy - Bless you Dusty. There was music with magic - intentional or not.
and most folks have never even heard of Randy Newman -
one of history's great songwriters
They will know ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’ though no doubt
I hadn't heard of him. I love Bette Midler's version of this song in "Beaches" and wanted to know where the song originated. That's why I'm here ..
His worst song became a hit, just like Dr John. Totally underrated...
@@gregorywhite9095 I've got no room to complain cos I only know one by Dr John !
@@j.c7719 oh yes !............ but then the poor guy has to make money somewhere - I read once that his average album sales was 6000...... pfft ! and folks like (the talent-free) Beyonce sell in millions
Achingly beautiful. Randy Newman is a national treasure. He belongs in the Pantheon of American songwriters, right up there with Stephen Foster.
a world treasure
Absolutely. He captures that Americana feel so well. ❤
Songwriting at it's very greatest! Pure genius!
One of those songs that requires processing time, just beautiful!
Listen to this as you fall asleep. A masterpiece 🙏❤️
Unbelievable piece of music
What I love about Randy Newman is that he arranges his own songs and by that I mean he writes out the musical notes of the score/arrangement. .....there aren't many singer-songwriters who do this and that makes him unique.
That is incredible! I didn't know that. I do, however, know how painfully difficult it is to manually write out each note one at a time for each instrument. It's challenging to say the least. I admire this composer and song writer for being able to do this. 🙂
Yes... and he's incredibly good at it as well.
Yes, he is....Randy also orchestrated Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is ?"
@@benmeltzer Indeed JPJ has arranged lots of songs both strings and brass orchestrations.
@@benmeltzer Jack Nitzsche and John Simon could orchestrate as could the recently departed Gordon Lightfoot - they could write out the orchestration for the musicians to play. The others - including McCartney - may very well be able to arrange but, that's a different kettle of fish to orchestration - which is what I probably should have written in the first place. Thanks.
I'm borrowing this comment from someone else, but it's worth repeating. When Randy Newman is gone, we will realize he is the Stephen Foster of our time.
an absolutely wonderful song with words to match , inspirationally tender & heart rending & full of love.
Always too short. Have to listen to it 2 or 3 times. Beautiful but terribly under appreciated artist and song.
😢 Beautiful track.
I've played this over and over by many artists. It's always beautiful and different , a perfect song in every way. Just listen, just listen, that's enough, more than enough.
One of my favourite UB40 cover songs, lovely to hear the original artist perform it 😊
The most beloved voice ...
I feel like I’ve been cheated, I just heard this for the first time today. so many years gone by. True story.
I first heard this song on Judy Collins's album "In My Life". Then, as now, I get teary-eyed when I hear it. It is filled with lines I can still play in my head 55 years later. "tin can at my feet, think I'll kick it down the street, that's a way to treat a friend." Give Judy's version a try, it is so fine.
We had Judy's album in the house as I was growing up. In the mid-70s, when I was old enough to want to start collecting my own records, my Mom got me a copy of Randy's live album, which had this song on it, along with Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger. Both remain among my favorites.
I have listened to this song probably more than a hundred times because I had the sound track from "Beaches." I love that movie and love the music. Bette Midler sings this song with such heartfelt passion. Her voice even cracks at the end because she was starting to cry - for real - when she performed it in that scene in the movie. I'm glad they didn't edit that out; it shows the humanness of a an extraordinary singer and actress.
Nina Simone too.
I first heard this on movie Beaches sung by Bette Midler. It is a beautiful song
living legend great songwriter
Randy is SO right, we do NOTHING to help those in need. America. Change
Human kindness is overflowing
One of the most beautiful people ever!
Thanks Randy, your soul and heart is in the right place. Each tone, each key, each breath is pure.
Ameen to you my human brother.
This is superb!
Breathtaking. Stunning.
Eyes brimming and that peculiar sensation in my throat...
Heard it during the new Monk movie tonight.. very moving
simply wonderful
Beautifull song! Wow!
A lullaby for my soul....❤
Great song.
The next time the Newmans (Randy, Thomas and David) do an orchestra concert, this needs to be played.
so good
No one seems to understand the original context under which this song was written
I don’t pretend to understand it
But the author has stated that it is a conversation between two homeless people and therefore the whole dialogue of the song is completely ironic!
Wake up people to irony!
Incredibly good.....!
As others have said, I grew up with the Judy Collins version which is great and I love it. I would add, though, that Newman's version is better and definitive.
good song....good voice ...good music... it's the art of expression in the song...an appreciation of good music....just like George Harrison's acoust version of while my guitar gently weeps.
Used well in MR. MONK'S LAST CASE
Sp glad they added this song to Neil Diamond's 1972 Hot August Night 40th anniversary release. Neil released it first on his classic album Stones
Breaks my heart that this is true
Ouch. love the pain
Play on 0.75 speed it sounds more like the original
❤
Reminds of Franz Schubert songs and string quartets.
In the context of this song "I think it's going to rain today" is a non sequitor
Written about the same time as 'Sound of Silence', but has more depth and musically just a better written song.
Vocal starts at 0:19.
Am I the only one who hears an Ivesian influence? If anybody wrote anything about this, would they be so kind as give be a reference?
Classic
But does anybody ask about the meaning of the song?
Don't get me wrong
Most of Randy Newman's early songs are biting satire
Can you not see that here?
Help the needy AND SHOW THEM THE WAY?
Maybe the needy could show everybody else a thing or two
I've always taken it to be about holding out hope when things look dark.
I think the lines "human kindness is overflowing, and I think it's going to rain today" are inextricable. It says "a revolution of kindness and love is going to sprout any time now, just watch."
Look up meaning of songs on the internet
Dusty Springfield has the definitive version of this Newman composition I believe.
I like Randy, but I like Bette Midlers rendition much better.
Who are the human scarecrows dressed up in the latest styles?
With frozen smiles to chase love away?
Living- dead people, going obliviously through the daily grind of life. That's how many homeless see us from their sidewalk abodes.
Did he write this song?
Yes
Randy Newman was looking over to the string section, I thought I heard a couple of out of tune violins
Came here from recently learning the UB40 version is cover. Expected it to be inferior, given i really like the UB40 version.
How so, so wrong was I.
Dusty Springfield did this in her Memphis album
Great song. I like Neil Diamond’s version best.
Is this a great country, or what?
You know, I bet you really wouldn't want to meet him or actually interact with him. I just doubt this is a person you want to try to talk to.... just a feelin
I don't think anyone understands this song!
Just watch and listen to Randy Newman.
All the comments are appreciated, but unnecessary and lacking in the face of the artistic product.
Nah! UB40 's version is much better!!
My God, you must be the biggest idiot living on this planet!
Good job they had someone as good as Randy Newman to write it for them though!
I can only hope you're joking.
No one understands the nuances of a song like the person that wrote it. Many times songwriters are not also performers. Randy Newman is a performer, and a craftsman in his field and a brilliant interpreter of his own work. An artist of the first order and it's a shame (and an embarrassment, among an untold number, for the R&R Hall of Fame) that it took them 20 years to come to that realization.
Such a gorgeous song. BUT he can’t sing worth shit. Bette Midler does it so much better because she CAN SING.
I think I hear a scarecrow.
@@Yogibayer4u Too funny.
Beautiful.