Here's That Rainy Day
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"Here's That Rainy Day" is a popular song with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, published in 1953. It was introduced by Dolores Gray in the Broadway musical Carnival in Flanders. [1]
The song has been recorded by many jazz and pop singers, including Tony Bennett, Dee Dee Bridgewater, The Stan Kenton Orchestra, June Christy, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Vic Damone, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Lou Rawls, Astrud Gilberto (with Stan Getz), Lena Horne, Phyllis Hyman, Jack Jones, Steve Lawrence, Peggy Lee, Kenny Rankin, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Sarah Vaughan and Andy Williams. It is also a favorite of jazz instrumentalists, with renditions by Joe Pass, Gene Ammons, Chet Baker, Ray Brown, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Bill Evans, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Wes Montgomery, Art Pepper, Oscar Peterson, Toots Thielemans, Alvin "Red" Tyler, L.A. Jazz Quintet and McCoy Tyner, among many others.
Frank Sinatra seems to have especially liked "Here's That Rainy Day." He recorded it on March 25, 1959 for the Capitol album "No One Cares," arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins. [2] He also performed it on two of his television shows—first on a Timex sponsored show entitled "The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: An Afternoon with Frank Sinatra," broadcast on December 13, 1959. In this performance, he sings it in front of a jazz sextet on a night club set. [1]
The second time he performed it on TV was November 18, 1973. Since 1965 he had been doing one television special a year—this one followed a two year break for his retirement. [3] The show, "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back," features "Here's That Rainy Day" in a dramatic, moody set–piece medley with "Last Night When We Were Young" and "Violets for Your Furs." Here the set is an empty, almost abstract bar with a slowly turning fan overhead. Sinatra makes the three songs into a dramatic statement.(See the show on [2])
Sinatra also performed the song during three concerts in 1974, at Caesar's Palace, in Philadelphia and Sarasota, New York. [3]
Former late-night talk show host Johnny Carson said that "Here's That Rainy Day" was his favorite ballad. Carson and Bette Midler famously sang the song on the next-to-last show of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on May 21, 1992.
[edit] Notable Recordings
- Astrud Gilberto
- Jack Jones - Where Love Has Gone (1964)
- Modern Jazz Quartet
- Art Pepper - Winter Moon (1980)
- Kenny Rogers
- Chelsea Krombach performed the song for her debut album Look for the Silver Lining.
- Phyllis Hyman - Somewhere in My Lifetime (1978)
[edit] Notes
- ^ video in personal collection
- ^ Frank Sinatra: "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back," Warner Reprise Video 38203-2
- ^ John Ridgeway, "The SinatraFile, Part 3," John Ridgeway Books, Birmingham, England, 1980, p. 208.
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