Can You Stop the Rain

"Can You Stop the Rain"
Single by Peabo Bryson
from the album Can You Stop the Rain
Released	May 4, 1991
Recorded	1990
Genre	R&B pop soul
Length	5:34
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	John Bettis Walter Afanasieff
Producer(s)	Walter Afanasieff

"Can You Stop the Rain" is the title track of a 1991 number-one R&B single by Peabo Bryson, taken from his fifteenth studio album of the same name. The song spent two weeks at number one on the US R&B chart and peaked at number fifty-two on the Billboard Hot 100. It also reached #11 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Personnel

• Peabo Bryson: lead vocals
• Walter Afanasieff: songwriter, producer, arranger, keyboards, drums, percussion, synthesized bass
• John Bettis: songwriter
• Gary Cirimelli: synclavier programming
• Ren Klyce: synclavier programming, synthesizer programming (Akai)
• Claytoven Richardson, Jeanie Tracy, Kitty Beethoven, Melisa Kary, Sandy Griffith: background vocals

Music video

Directed by Rocky Schenck, the video is shot in a sepia tone with Bryson singing the song in places like a plaza, a ballroom containing a band performing and inside a room where he sings to a window that's pouring rain.

See also

• List of number-one R&B singles of 1991 (U.S.)