Today, 3/1/24 is my mom's birthday. She would be 52 years old, but she passed 36 days ago on 1/25/24. To celebrate her, I drove up the CA coast and stopped at El Matador Beach to write a happy bday message to her in the sand. It started sprinkling and there was a gentlemen playing this song nearby. I had never heard it before this moment.
So sorry for your loss, but what a beautiful way to celebrate your mom and so cool that this was being played in that moment (and that it was the first time you heard it!). I live in Chicago, but lived in LA for a short time years ago and El Matador was my favorite beach and this song was always on heavy rotation. :)
My condoléance to u,I love this song,I ❤California, the very best music 🎶 on the world,Donald Fagen, Bill labunti,doobies brothers,mac Maccanaly, jakson brown, Bruce springsteen, Jim capaldi, Elvis costello, Marc cohn,Rony milsepp, Benjamin horr, Steve winwood, Steely dan,Bob Dylan,Dan halley ex Eagles,Darly hall and john Oates ,JJKale,James Taylor, toto,...😢from Tunisia 🇹🇳
We had a teacher when we were in juniors who would bring his guitar 🎸 in on a Friday and sing with us he was a lovely singer this was his favourite song 🎵. Sadly he lost his life in a car accident years later I listen to this and remember a young man that left a lasting impression on me .
Grew up in the beaches of Southern California Manhattan Hermosa Redondo. Late hubby was firefighter paramedic for Hermosa Beach in the 89s early 90s til his passing in 93. Currently in Illinois outside Chicago
Some people take this song literally, but "rain" in this song is figurative, meaning problems or troubles. The lyrics are based on an old saying that was still common when this song came out - "When it rains, it pours", meaning problems seem to come in bunches. When things go wrong, they seem to REALLY go wrong. The hopeful singer had heard nothing but good things about music career opportunities in California (it never rains), but when he got there he couldn't find work and was broke (out of "bread", meaning money), hungry, embarrassed, and humiliated at his predicament. He warns people trying to break into the music business that it doesn't just rain, it pours. There have been several songs with similarly cynical lyrics which warn that show business is different than what it seems from a distance, such as "Don't Mean Nothin'" by Richard Marx, "The Stroke" by Billy Squier, and "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" by Sugarloaf.
Mike Davis, a prophet of California, wrote "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn" which earned him the wrath of developers, proven right, again, as catastrophic flames destroy enclaves of privilege and power and, like below, Pasadena. The Chumash and the Tong-va knew this. Controlled burns as a yearly occurence stretches back into time immemorial. Building megamansions into the hills guarantee huge community investments into fire suppression and fighting. Let Pacific Palisades burn. Let Malibu Burn. Arguing with fire is only for conmen and marks. "Malibu, meanwhile, is the wildfire capital of North America and, possibly, the world. Fire here has a relentless staccato rhythm, syncopated by landslides and floods. The rugged 22-mile-long coastline is scourged, on the average, by a large fire (one thousand acres plus) every two and a half years, and the entire surface area of the western Santa Monica Mountains has been burnt three times over the twentieth century. At least once a decade a blaze in the chaparral grows into a terrifying firestorm consuming hundreds of homes in an inexorable advance across the mountains to the sea. Since 1970 five such holocausts have destroyed more than one thousand luxury residences and inflicted more than $1 billion in property damage. Some unhappy homeowners have been burnt out twice in a generation, and there are individual patches of coastline or mountain, especially between Point Dume and Tuna Canyon, that have been incinerated as many as eight times since 1930. ... From the time of the Tapias, the owners of Rancho Malibu had recognized that the region’s extraordinary fire hazard was shaped, in large part, by the uncanny alignment of its coastal canyons with the annual “fire winds” from the north: the notorious Santa Anas, which blow primarily between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, just before the first rains. Born from high-pressure areas over the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau, the Santa Anas become hot and dry as they descend avalanche-like into Southern California. The San Fernando Valley acts as a giant bellows, sometimes fanning the Santa Anas to hurricane velocity as they roar seaward through the narrow canyons and rugged defiles of the Santa Monica Mountains. Add a spark to the dense, dry vegetation on such an occasion and the hillsides will explode in uncontrollable wildfire: “The speed and heat of the fire is so intense that firefighters can only attempt to prevent lateral spread of the fire while waiting for the winds to abate or the fuel to diminish. Less well understood in the old days was the essential dependence of the dominant vegetation of the Santa Monicas-chamise chaparral, coastal sage scrub, and live oak woodland-upon this cycle of wildfire. Decades of research (especially at the San Dimas Experimental Forest in the San Gabriel Mountains) have given late-twentieth-century science vivid insights into the complex and ultimately beneficial role of fire in recycling nutrients and ensuring seed germination in Southern California’s various pyrophytic flora. Research has also established the overwhelming importance of biomass accumulation rather than ignition frequency in regulating fire destructiveness. As Richard Minnich, the world authority on chaparral brushfire, emphasizes: “Fuel, not ignitions, causes fire. You can send an arsonist to Death Valley and he’ll never be arrested.”
Had never heard this song before until today, was walking my dogs and this was blasting out of someones home. Thank you sir who ever you are for introducing me to this.
This song is one of my all-time favorite 70s songs. It is the perfect example of the songs from that era where even the sad songs are somehow upbeat. You cannot really explain it. 70s songs just capture life experiences in total. The good, the bad, the mundane, and everything else.
When I first heard the song- I like th song because the Music was Catchy and the Refrain of It never rains in Southern California was also catchy. But when you actually listen to the song- it is a Sad song about Broken dreams. It is a song about someone moving to Calfornia with Big Dreams to probably be a either a Musician or an ACtor and those dreams not happening. A very sad song. Although, it is very different musically- in terms of theme it is similar to Simon and Garfunkle's = The Boxer which is about someone moving to New York with big Dreams that don't get realized.
Late 1972, and I'm coming back from Vietnam. Spent two months at Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco before moving on to Ft Hood, Tx. We were warned about the Hippies, but never had a problem there. Worst "anti-war" problems were at Love Field in Dallas, followed by the corrupt cops, businesses and landlords of Killeen, Tx. A lot of memories associated with this song.
Yeah, same here. I am currently 2 years old and this is my jam, all my stupid friends all like this song called “Twinkle twinkle little star”. If you ask me that song is garbage.
I’m a 17 year old girl who day dreams of spending her life in california, looking out the window of my high school as it pours rain wishing i was laid up under the california sun. It may not rain in california but no rain from my small town will wash away my dreams 🧘♀️🧘♀️🧘♀️🧘♀️🐬🐬🐬🐬🍀🍀🍀
May all your dreams come true and don’t accept no as an answer lol as a former stage tech best advice I can give you is just show up ready to work and don’t be afraid to go after your dreams. 25 years ago I was the same way and those day dreams feel so much better when they come true just never sell your soul “meaning don’t do anything you’d be ashamed of yourself later doing”
As someone who grew up in Southern California, you’re spot on with your dream! It is a wonderful place to live, absolutely stunning scenery and weather year round!!
That’s right! Grab life by those horns! 🔥❤️🔥🔥❤️🔥 I might guess you have a fascination with dolphins? 🐬🐬🐬🐬 besides being into meditation? 🧘♀️🧘♀️🧘♀️🧘♀️ Good way to help curb stress and get yourself centred. I actually like to view old TV commercials on my phone straight out of nowhere, like check this one on G; Alpha-Getti commercial from 1989! Ask yourself just how much of what drugs the creator was on to produce all that. 😆😆
That’s right! Grab life by those horns! 🔥❤️🔥🔥❤️🔥 I might guess you have a fascination with dolphins? 🐬🐬🐬🐬 besides being into meditation? 🧘♀️🧘♀️🧘♀️🧘♀️ Good way to help curb stress and get yourself centred. I actually like to view old TV commercials on my phone straight out of nowhere, like check this one on G; Alpha-Getti commercial from 1989! Ask yourself just how much of what drugs the creator was on to produce all that. 😆😆 Did you actually type this in class while it was in session? Phone just under your desk to avoid getting caught by the teacher. 😁
Grew up with this album as a kid. It plays in my head often 47 years later. One of the iconic California songs, of course with Hotel California. Thank you Albert Sr
@@incog99skd11 OH yeah I don't even know how I missed them they're unforgettable! unless of course you meant the beach boys version in which case I'm extremely embarrassed lol
The lyrics to this song are a true testament to all of the struggles and hardships that the majority of practicing Musicians who are trying to earn a living by playing music have to endure.
That is true for the majority of people attempting to go in an entertainment field whether it be as a musician, actor, dancer or singer just to name a few. Everyone going into those fields spend hours each day and years working on their craft and yet the vast majority never get a lucky break and be struggling to get by.
I had dinner one night with the guy who co-wrote this with Albert Hammond. He was a prolific and very successful song writer. His name was Mike Hazlewood and wrote many fantastic and successful songs for others including the Hollies.
“ please don’t tell them how you found me, don’t tell them how you found me, give me a break, give me a break”. Just enough information to help us paint a picture in our mind of his sad circumstances. His vocal tone is so beautifully sad.
It's about to rain like hell in southern California. This great Albert Hammond song is the usual reality for socal. Stay safe my friends from this tropical system that's moving in. Keep listening to The Carpenter's & don't let Rainy days & Monday's get you down. 🙏❤🙏
A classic among classics. I was in kindergarten in 1972 and I remember this song. Always loved it . Man we had great tunes from everywhere and every style.
Yes, we did. It was a wonderful time to be alive. It was a beautiful confluence of love and kindness and of course, wonderful music from all genres. Folks got along so much better, then. Be well ❤
My California runaway story 1983. One day I up and left the Midwest, left a note saying don’t worry about me. I lasted 2 weeks and learned that I didn’t want to be rich and famous. No regrets.
This was my first time 'kknowingly' hearing this song. I must say, not olny does it have great composition that can stand the test of time. It also has an amazing lyrical journey that transports your mind into the writers mind allowing you to see what they felt. Great piece of work!
Sitting up here in chilly, rainy San Francisco. Loving this new chapter in my life and appreciating this song like I never have in the 40 years I've heard it.
Evocative. Takes me right back into the moment nearly fifty years ago. Anyone listening to AM Top 40 radio back then could possibly have heard this song twenty or thirty times a day when "It Never Rains in Southern California" was at its zenith.
A great song, as a kid every time I heard this song on the radio, I wanted to run away to Southern California and find new adventures. Listening to it now, brings back a lot of good memories.
What a GREAT song on multiple levels. Great melody and wonderful lyrics that have a double meaning. The song is both catchy & pretty, but also sad at the same time. You could say the same thing about life which is why everyone can relate to this song. The drums were played by the great studio drummer Hal Blaine. 100 years from now people will still be touched by this amazing piece of work. The song is universal and eternal.
My dad sang this song to me the last time we FaceTimed a month ago after I asked him how he was doing in a nursing home. He came home on Monday July 24th 2023. Passed away on Friday the 28th after a long battle with Cancer. He got to come home like he wanted to. More I listen to it, I hear his wish and his thirst for life and going out on his terms. Love you forever Dad. Take care of Katana.❤
I’m 44 and always did my own thing growing up. I’m in the Autism Spectrum and INFJ - so I didn’t really fit in with my peer group, I feel that’s allowed me to be myself about the most faithfully. I’ve always been into older music, but to keep the general feeling going, since crossing over 40, I started picking up on 90’s - present day tunes, there’s a few good ones out there, doesn’t seem as much, but I’ll give anything a chance, I like more older tunes by far, I’d go back as far as 1930’s anyway, it’s like time travel! The rush you get is right when your brain switches from one era and genre to another that is very different, it overwhelms the senses and feels so good it’s practically incapacitating! 😇❤️🔥
I first heard this song in the series finale for Veronica Mars back in 2007. I was 17 years old and have been in love with this song ever since! Such a great song!
I hate it that everybody seems to only hear these great songs on TV shows ! Don't you people listen to oldies radio stations ? There are TONS of songs like this from the 70s ! And the 60s ! Lotta good stuff from the 50s too !
😢Great tune got laid to this song in the 1972 it will go to my grave with me One of the best they will Never have a beat and voice combo and it was at the right time in a small town in Northern Michigan on a A M Radio God bless you Mr Albert Hammond you are my Hero Northern Michigan Presque Isle County on worlds Largest Limestone Quarry on WHAK radio
My son in law just got back home to Georgia from working in California for the last 3 weeks during the "atmospheric river" of 2023. I've had this song on my mind. I just sent it to him. Too soon?
Prayers to Southern California.
🏡🔥😢
Amen 🙏
Let it pour! Let it pour....
Screw em
@@_-_-_L_-_-_ Hate much? Why the bitterness? 🤔
@@ericbarash8496 Amén 🙏🙏🌹🌎🌤
I'm listening to this as it is raining in Southern California 😌
I have been cheated and lied to...
What part?
@@watchandpray8918 well when I first left the comment it was in orange county 🍊
@@frankiefrazer2988 I lived in OC for many years. I miss it but I won't return to Commiefornia.
Me too! 😁
Praying for California! Please Rain, California Need You!!!
Today, 3/1/24 is my mom's birthday. She would be 52 years old, but she passed 36 days ago on 1/25/24. To celebrate her, I drove up the CA coast and stopped at El Matador Beach to write a happy bday message to her in the sand. It started sprinkling and there was a gentlemen playing this song nearby. I had never heard it before this moment.
So sorry for your loss, but what a beautiful way to celebrate your mom and so cool that this was being played in that moment (and that it was the first time you heard it!). I live in Chicago, but lived in LA for a short time years ago and El Matador was my favorite beach and this song was always on heavy rotation. :)
SEmper Fi, sorry for your loss.
My condolences to you, and your family.
My heart is with you i know your pain ive lost my daughter and son love from miles and miles away coventry england xx❤
My condoléance to u,I love this song,I ❤California, the very best music 🎶 on the world,Donald Fagen, Bill labunti,doobies brothers,mac Maccanaly, jakson brown, Bruce springsteen, Jim capaldi, Elvis costello, Marc cohn,Rony milsepp, Benjamin horr, Steve winwood, Steely dan,Bob Dylan,Dan halley ex Eagles,Darly hall and john Oates ,JJKale,James Taylor, toto,...😢from Tunisia 🇹🇳
We had a teacher when we were in juniors who would bring his guitar 🎸 in on a Friday and sing with us he was a lovely singer this was his favourite song 🎵.
Sadly he lost his life in a car accident years later I listen to this and remember a young man that left a lasting impression on me .
That's a beautiful but heartbreaking story. Hang on to those wonderful memories.
An actual teacher. A very rare thing.
Just found out one of my childhood teachers passed away earlier this year. Great guy...
IF YOU LIKE THIS SONG, YOU WILL REALLY LIKE SANFRANCISCO .
@@lindamonsour4375 That's considered Northern California though, and I imagine not as balmy as the southern part?
It is currently HEAVILY raining in southern cali but this song is hitting the spot!
It's one of those songs I sing all day when it rains. Cuz when it rains "it pours, man, it pours"!
Yep
@@DEWAGE83 exactly!!
OMG I didn't know that they had all these mudslides, in Beverly Hills!
😯🤔😬😪
Grew up in the beaches of Southern California Manhattan Hermosa Redondo. Late hubby was firefighter paramedic for Hermosa Beach in the 89s early 90s til his passing in 93. Currently in Illinois outside Chicago
Praying for all the people in California!
"1972" this song came out ,&my utmost favorite of the 70s..
Some people take this song literally, but "rain" in this song is figurative, meaning problems or troubles. The lyrics are based on an old saying that was still common when this song came out - "When it rains, it pours", meaning problems seem to come in bunches. When things go wrong, they seem to REALLY go wrong. The hopeful singer had heard nothing but good things about music career opportunities in California (it never rains), but when he got there he couldn't find work and was broke (out of "bread", meaning money), hungry, embarrassed, and humiliated at his predicament. He warns people trying to break into the music business that it doesn't just rain, it pours.
There have been several songs with similarly cynical lyrics which warn that show business is different than what it seems from a distance, such as "Don't Mean Nothin'" by Richard Marx, "The Stroke" by Billy Squier, and "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" by Sugarloaf.
U autistic?
Great explanation of the lyrics.
Two more bottles of wine-Emmylou Harris
Well Said .
Great analysis of the hidden symbolism and true meaning to these songs!
Man, Albert wasn't kidding. There really is no rain in SoCal.
I'm in High school again listening to this on the radio. Through some kind of time warp I am in 2024. Please God take me back.
I'm with you..High school was the best. Lived on south side of Chicago and loved hanging out with friends and listening to music.Wish I could go back😂
Same here I wish
One more. Count me in.
This is one of my favorite comments ever on a song, as it basically describes the last 50 years of my life 🙂
😂👍
Have loved this song since I was a kid. So sad to be sending it around today because of the fires in LA. 🏡🔥😢 🙏❤🩹
Clássico que Amo.. e hoje me trás o desejo de muita muita chuva para Los Angeles... Deus os proteja sempre
@@aleinegaspar6663 I hear you. And thank you so much. May God protect you always, as well.
It's the '70s and mama just picked me up from school. She's got the radio tuned to WSAT 1280 AM, and this song always comes on.
This song age like fine wine now...
We need rain those areas affected . ❤👽🌎🕊🌹🙏❤️⭐️🌈🐋🕊🕊🕊🕊
Mike Davis, a prophet of California, wrote "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn" which earned him the wrath of developers, proven right, again, as catastrophic flames destroy enclaves of privilege and power and, like below, Pasadena. The Chumash and the Tong-va knew this. Controlled burns as a yearly occurence stretches back into time immemorial. Building megamansions into the hills guarantee huge community investments into fire suppression and fighting. Let Pacific Palisades burn. Let Malibu Burn. Arguing with fire is only for conmen and marks.
"Malibu, meanwhile, is the wildfire capital of North America and, possibly, the world. Fire here has a relentless staccato rhythm, syncopated by landslides and floods. The rugged 22-mile-long coastline is scourged, on the average, by a large fire (one thousand acres plus) every two and a half years, and the entire surface area of the western Santa Monica Mountains has been burnt three times over the twentieth century. At least once a decade a blaze in the chaparral grows into a terrifying firestorm consuming hundreds of homes in an inexorable advance across the mountains to the sea. Since 1970 five such holocausts have destroyed more than one thousand luxury residences and inflicted more than $1 billion in property damage. Some unhappy homeowners have been burnt out twice in a generation, and there are individual patches of coastline or mountain, especially between Point Dume and Tuna Canyon, that have been incinerated as many as eight times since 1930.
...
From the time of the Tapias, the owners of Rancho Malibu had recognized that the region’s extraordinary fire hazard was shaped, in large part, by the uncanny alignment of its coastal canyons with the annual “fire winds” from the north: the notorious Santa Anas, which blow primarily between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, just before the first rains. Born from high-pressure areas over the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau, the Santa Anas become hot and dry as they descend avalanche-like into Southern California. The San Fernando Valley acts as a giant bellows, sometimes fanning the Santa Anas to hurricane velocity as they roar seaward through the narrow canyons and rugged defiles of the Santa Monica Mountains. Add a spark to the dense, dry vegetation on such an occasion and the hillsides will explode in uncontrollable wildfire: “The speed and heat of the fire is so intense that firefighters can only attempt to prevent lateral spread of the fire while waiting for the winds to abate or the fuel to diminish.
Less well understood in the old days was the essential dependence of the dominant vegetation of the Santa Monicas-chamise chaparral, coastal sage scrub, and live oak woodland-upon this cycle of wildfire. Decades of research (especially at the San Dimas Experimental Forest in the San Gabriel Mountains) have given late-twentieth-century science vivid insights into the complex and ultimately beneficial role of fire in recycling nutrients and ensuring seed germination in Southern California’s various pyrophytic flora. Research has also established the overwhelming importance of biomass accumulation rather than ignition frequency in regulating fire destructiveness. As Richard Minnich, the world authority on chaparral brushfire, emphasizes: “Fuel, not ignitions, causes fire. You can send an arsonist to Death Valley and he’ll never be arrested.”
There really is a song for every moment 😅
Praying for all the people in California too .
Thinking of Southern California and prayers 🙏🏼🙏🏼😞💕
Had never heard this song before until today, was walking my dogs and this was blasting out of someones home. Thank you sir who ever you are for introducing me to this.
Good on you! For walking your dog in the rainy muddy mess that is CA. NYC salutes you!
It was me...you're welcome.
Haha thats a cool story!
Where have you been...?🤔
@@thatruth646 he probably needs to watch more movies. And not be so stubborn
Prayers for California ❤
Walmart shopping and heard this song and fell in love ❤
It is a great song, isn't it.
Same way for me.
Praying for California 🙏🕯️😇
This song is one of my all-time favorite 70s songs. It is the perfect example of the songs from that era where even the sad songs are somehow upbeat. You cannot really explain it. 70s songs just capture life experiences in total. The good, the bad, the mundane, and everything else.
Amlistening right now and TRUST ME IS NOT RAINING IN SEATTLE ( As usual,around this time ) IS FREEZING!
BUT I ALWAYS ENJOY THID 🎵 SONG
When I first heard the song- I like th song because the Music was Catchy and the Refrain of It never rains in Southern California was also catchy. But when you actually listen to the song- it is a Sad song about Broken dreams. It is a song about someone moving to Calfornia with Big Dreams to probably be a either a Musician or an ACtor and those dreams not happening. A very sad song. Although, it is very different musically- in terms of theme it is similar to Simon and Garfunkle's = The Boxer which is about someone moving to New York with big Dreams that don't get realized.
Not to mention catchy toon
Yes the 70s sure had some good songs back in the day's.
The problem is people in this generation don't know what living is like
The early to mid 1970’s were the happiest years of my life and this was one of my favourite songs from those years.
I was born in 1960 and loved the 70s. I actually spent my teenage years in Thousand Oaks CA. It was an amazing place to be as a teenager.
My buddy used to say my genre was late 1972 to early 1973... He wasn't far wrong.
was born in 1960 --- understand completely
Same here. Albert Hammond is the singing artist
Late 1972, and I'm coming back from Vietnam. Spent two months at Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco before moving on to Ft Hood, Tx.
We were warned about the Hippies, but never had a problem there. Worst "anti-war" problems were at Love Field in Dallas, followed by the corrupt cops, businesses and landlords of Killeen, Tx. A lot of memories associated with this song.
For better or worse ,Thankyou for your service
Very underrated song writer
Is not American writer is from a colony from England by Spain is bilingual espanol English
I can listen to this song, back to back to back, all day long 🥰❤
Same! 🙂
I appreciate with all my heart ❤❤❤ i am 70 years old and I consider myself a very lucky man. Wow the music was fantastic and it still is for me ❤❤❤
I am with You, almost the same age and I believe that we have had the best music in our hay days!
@@wernerheusser9556 im 74 here in england best music x
Me too @63!!! We had the best music!
I am 64, and feel the same way! The music still sounds great😊
This reminds me of when my brother left for the Navy. He lives in Hawaii ,that was 1973..we still in touch but his song tugs at my heart.
😢
In 1972 I was 16 years old that song sit in my memory all time
@Eugene Funayama thats cool bro recommend me some songs because I just discovered this man
GO NAVY !!! ABH3 USS ENTERPRISE CVN-65 98’
It sounds like your brother was stationed in Hawaii when he was in the Navy and stayed there. Right?
Wished more people from my generation appreciated classics like this.
We do! This song was a hit 14 years before I was born...and now at 30 who's UA-cam searching what?! ;)
Its all good.....we have a broad choice of music to look back to & try....I listen out of my era too
I'm 14 and no kid I know would ever listen to this.. lol
I'm 22 and I love this song!!
Yeah, same here. I am currently 2 years old and this is my jam, all my stupid friends all like this song called “Twinkle twinkle little star”. If you ask me that song is garbage.
This wonderful song never gets old...2024...Still listening...
Absolutely u r so right it goes right through my heart n the music wow😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Me too lovely music lovely sang by him my heart goes for him tum tum tum😅😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Love ittttyt
I'm 13 and play this song every day before I go to school 😂❤❤❤
good taste! Kudos!
You have very good taste
Good musical taste!
I’m a 17 year old girl who day dreams of spending her life in california, looking out the window of my high school as it pours rain wishing i was laid up under the california sun. It may not rain in california but no rain from my small town will wash away my dreams 🧘♀️🧘♀️🧘♀️🧘♀️🐬🐬🐬🐬🍀🍀🍀
May all your dreams come true!!
May all your dreams come true and don’t accept no as an answer lol as a former stage tech best advice I can give you is just show up ready to work and don’t be afraid to go after your dreams. 25 years ago I was the same way and those day dreams feel so much better when they come true just never sell your soul “meaning don’t do anything you’d be ashamed of yourself later doing”
As someone who grew up in Southern California, you’re spot on with your dream! It is a wonderful place to live, absolutely stunning scenery and weather year round!!
That’s right! Grab life by those horns! 🔥❤️🔥🔥❤️🔥 I might guess you have a fascination with dolphins? 🐬🐬🐬🐬 besides being into meditation? 🧘♀️🧘♀️🧘♀️🧘♀️ Good way to help curb stress and get yourself centred.
I actually like to view old TV commercials on my phone straight out of nowhere, like check this one on G; Alpha-Getti commercial from 1989! Ask yourself just how much of what drugs the creator was on to produce all that. 😆😆
That’s right! Grab life by those horns! 🔥❤️🔥🔥❤️🔥 I might guess you have a fascination with dolphins? 🐬🐬🐬🐬 besides being into meditation? 🧘♀️🧘♀️🧘♀️🧘♀️ Good way to help curb stress and get yourself centred.
I actually like to view old TV commercials on my phone straight out of nowhere, like check this one on G; Alpha-Getti commercial from 1989! Ask yourself just how much of what drugs the creator was on to produce all that. 😆😆
Did you actually type this in class while it was in session? Phone just under your desk to avoid getting caught by the teacher. 😁
2024 still listening to this worldy classic ❤
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This song teleports you back into the early 1970s. 😌💭
Yes. I would sit and listen to WLS (Chicago) for hours.
This was an early favorite.
It does, and I wasn’t even there… but I can imagine!😎☀️🌦️
Defenetly! Even tho I wasen't there
My friend Rodger moved to Mexico because it never rained in Southern California. We’ve never forgotten you Rodger.
@@sheabrennaman345 Did Rodger move to either Baja California, or Baja California Sur?
The smooth 70's!
My favorite stanza: (1:22) Out of work, I'm out of my head // Out of self respect, I'm out of bread
I'm under-loved, I'm underfed // I wanna go home
I woke up this morning humming this song. I hadn't heard it in years. So of course I had to look it up. Great song
Grew up with this album as a kid. It plays in my head often 47 years later. One of the iconic California songs, of course with Hotel California. Thank you Albert Sr
Don't forget about California dreamin and California love!
@@radiobell920 What about "California Girls!"?
@@incog99skd11 OH yeah I don't even know how I missed them they're unforgettable!
unless of course you meant the beach boys version in which case I'm extremely embarrassed lol
Going to California by Led Zeppelin
I'll be playing this song for a few days , it's raining right now , got to play it .😅
The lyrics to this song are a true testament to all of the struggles and hardships that the majority of practicing Musicians who are trying to earn a living by playing music have to endure.
That is true for the majority of people attempting to go in an entertainment field whether it be as a musician, actor, dancer or singer just to name a few. Everyone going into those fields spend hours each day and years working on their craft and yet the vast majority never get a lucky break and be struggling to get by.
I’m from then, those days. We had so much to choose from. The radio was actually amazing. We knew it was fixed, but they did play what we loved.
THE MOVIE EMPIRE BROUGHT ME HERE IT'S A GOOD SONG...👍👍👍
I had dinner one night with the guy who co-wrote this with Albert Hammond. He was a prolific and very successful song writer. His name was Mike Hazlewood and wrote many fantastic and successful songs for others including the Hollies.
“ please don’t tell them how you found me, don’t tell them how you found me, give me a break, give me a break”. Just enough information to help us paint a picture in our mind of his sad circumstances. His vocal tone is so beautifully sad.
Jims drumming is soo perfect
Listening on 12/18/2024. Such a good song.
Merry Christmas to all.
After watching the news and seeing the 🔥 in la this song came to mind 🙏 for la
Oh the memories 😌. Love love love this song. Oh the memories 👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️
Brings back memories from my teenage years.
It's about to rain like hell in southern California. This great Albert Hammond song is the usual reality for socal. Stay safe my friends from this tropical system that's moving in. Keep listening to The Carpenter's & don't let Rainy days & Monday's get you down. 🙏❤🙏
That's what made me find my way back here too
It’s raining like hell here in southern New York
Hope you're doing ok. ✋
It just rained like hell here in North Texas. With large hail, hurricane-force winds, and s few tornados thrown in.
One of the first songs I learned to play on guitar.
I grew up listening to this song. August, 2024 and still listening.
Still here great song🏴🇺🇸
Absolutely good... takes me in different emotional places 🎉❤
@@catherineyeta1470 It's such a great song I play it all the time when I'm driving around Glasgow.
Just returned from my first visit to Southern California, and baby, it’s beautiful out there.
Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec 20, 2024. 73º F. This song fits perfect. Peace and love to everybody. Happy Christmas!
A classic among classics. I was in kindergarten in 1972 and I remember this song. Always loved it . Man we had great tunes from everywhere and every style.
Yes, we did. It was a wonderful time to be alive. It was a beautiful confluence of love and kindness and of course, wonderful music from all genres.
Folks got along so much better, then. Be well ❤
@@hamdelsun68 You also my friend ! Lord bless !
Great way to cheer your 🌧️ gloomy day and bring out the Sunshine ☀️
His son’s music is just as good
Praying for California
Na década de 70 não tinha música ruim , hoje em dia , Deeeeeeeeeuuuusss me livre.
My California runaway story 1983. One day I up and left the Midwest, left a note saying don’t worry about me. I lasted 2 weeks and learned that I didn’t want to be rich and famous. No regrets.
A classic radio hit! Those were the days for some of us Gen X
Beautiful. Brings back such good memories of my teenage years (🌍🇿🇦)
Just have to listen to this again after the heavy downpour in SoCal for almost a week now.
SoCal sounds like some kind of diet aid or artificial sweetener! 😅
this music is beautiful, I grew up listening to it with my late father & best friend I ever had. God he died too young, I sure miss him.
Officer ufo1 so sad
uh when did he die?
Know how you feel my dad collapsed in my arms and passed when I was 24
SORRY.🙏
Nothing is worse than losing Good Parents ! 😢😢
the city of Angels did get some rain today thank God
The song moves you as it did 50 years ago !
Beautiful song!
Saudades de um tempo que só quem viveu sabe do que estou falando
Born in 2000 and what a great song
Forgot about this gem until I watched an episode of Lost, whistled this tune to Google and found it here. 😂❤❤
Wer hört im Jahre 2024 noch Albert Hammond außer mir mal gespannt ❤🎉❤
Im 65 and Im still e njoy this tune
Ich
Ich auch😊
Ich drei.
Trust me you're not alone. Great music never goes out of style.
2025 ❤anyone?
I’m here because of what is currently happening
Yes. Timely song!
Yes, listening and loving it
Me
Please rain dammit
his son becoming a writer and artist in the stokes is awesome
This was my first time 'kknowingly' hearing this song. I must say, not olny does it have great composition that can stand the test of time. It also has an amazing lyrical journey that transports your mind into the writers mind allowing you to see what they felt.
Great piece of work!
My daughter and drandsons love this ❤️
Prayers for California.. storms bring change 😞💔
May the double rainbow show its face! 🌈🌈
love this song.
Our music class sang this song in grammar school. We like the part that says MAN IT POURS. We would yell MAN
Listening to this song on 1/10/2023 and it’s pouring rain here in Southern California
Sitting up here in chilly, rainy San Francisco. Loving this new chapter in my life and appreciating this song like I never have in the 40 years I've heard it.
Me too! You’re right!🎉
Evocative. Takes me right back into the moment nearly fifty years ago. Anyone listening to AM Top 40 radio back then could possibly have heard this song twenty or thirty times a day when "It Never Rains in Southern California" was at its zenith.
And having the cassette ready with the mic near the radio to record this and other songs when they came on.
A great song, as a kid every time I heard this song on the radio, I wanted to run away to Southern California and find new adventures. Listening to it now, brings back a lot of good memories.
What a GREAT song on multiple levels. Great melody and wonderful lyrics that have a double meaning. The song is both catchy & pretty, but also sad at the same time. You could say the same thing about life which is why everyone can relate to this song. The drums were played by the great studio drummer Hal Blaine. 100 years from now people will still be touched by this amazing piece of work. The song is universal and eternal.
My dad sang this song to me the last time we FaceTimed a month ago after I asked him how he was doing in a nursing home. He came home on Monday July 24th 2023. Passed away on Friday the 28th after a long battle with Cancer. He got to come home like he wanted to. More I listen to it, I hear his wish and his thirst for life and going out on his terms. Love you forever Dad. Take care of Katana.❤
Decided to comment about my Dad on your thread because you capture his essence of good people recognize good people. Thank you and God bless you.
🙏 🇬🇧 !
Always LOVED this HIT CLASSIC SONG!!!!
I just love reading comments here. Feels nostalgic. Reading it in the middle of the night😁 born in year 2000 but i love old songs🥰
I’m 44 and always did my own thing growing up. I’m in the Autism Spectrum and INFJ - so I didn’t really fit in with my peer group, I feel that’s allowed me to be myself about the most faithfully.
I’ve always been into older music, but to keep the general feeling going, since crossing over 40, I started picking up on 90’s - present day tunes, there’s a few good ones out there, doesn’t seem as much, but I’ll give anything a chance, I like more older tunes by far, I’d go back as far as 1930’s anyway, it’s like time travel!
The rush you get is right when your brain switches from one era and genre to another that is very different, it overwhelms the senses and feels so good it’s practically incapacitating! 😇❤️🔥
The California fire is burning. I suddenly think of this song. The era when I dresses up myself everyday.
One of the best songs ever written
LOVE MY SEVENTIES MUSIC !!
i grew up on
In Sweden ve love this song❤❤❤❤❤
Norwegian too
Noeway too
Great song for the teens of 1973!
I first heard this song in the series finale for Veronica Mars back in 2007. I was 17 years old and have been in love with this song ever since! Such a great song!
I hate it that everybody seems to only hear these great songs on TV shows ! Don't you people listen to oldies radio stations ?
There are TONS of songs like this from the 70s ! And the 60s ! Lotta good stuff from the 50s too !
Give The Drummer His Flowers Because He's Killing It.
@@timothyjensen179Never Knew That Until Your Reply. I Just Googled It. Gruesome/Horrific !!!
I’m 54 and this song has been stuck in my head now for 4 days! But just between you and me don’t tell them how you found me. Give me a break!
Euphoric.
I SEE WHAT U DID THERE
How did you know
definitely had some kinda beta access lol
😢Great tune got laid to this song in the 1972 it will go to my grave with me One of the best they will Never have a beat and voice combo and it was at the right time in a small town in Northern Michigan on a A M Radio God bless you Mr Albert Hammond you are my Hero Northern Michigan Presque Isle County on worlds Largest Limestone Quarry on WHAK radio
15 años buscándote..nunca perdí la esperanzas por volverte a escuchar..alguien me regaló un CD sin títulos..pero bueno al fin te tengo..gracias
Como esta otras maravillas perdidas en la inmensidad
My son in law just got back home to Georgia from working in California for the last 3 weeks during the "atmospheric river" of 2023. I've had this song on my mind. I just sent it to him. Too soon?
Class never dies