Can You Stop the Rain
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"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.[1] 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
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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.
References
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 90.
See also
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Categories:
- 1991 singles
- Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles
- Music videos directed by Rocky Schenck
- Peabo Bryson songs
- Songs with lyrics by John Bettis
- 1991 songs
- Pop ballads
- Contemporary R&B ballads
- Songs written by Walter Afanasieff
- Columbia Records singles
- Song recordings produced by Walter Afanasieff
- 1990s ballads
- 1990s rhythm and blues song stubs