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1968

It’s raining today, but once there was summer and you

By Matthew Rutledge on 09/11/2009

It actu­ally is rain­ing today, a seri­ous, soak­ing rain, the first in prob­ably 5 months.  And there’s always a song to go with these moments — and this one is perhaps one of my abso­lute favor­ites of its genre.  This is a clas­sic impres­sion­istic love song , a story in a song, writ­ten the way songs always should be, putting the kibosh on vari­ety and its status as the spice of life.  This song can be sung over and over ..read more

Posted in Music, nostalgia | Tagged 1968, MP3, pop standards, precipitation, rain, rainy days, scott walker, torch songs | Leave a response

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