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Can You Stop the Rain

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Released
  
May 4, 1991

Recorded
  
1990

Label
  
Columbia

Format
  
CD single

Length
  
5:34

Genre
  
R&B, pop, quiet storm, adult contemporary

"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.

Contents

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.

    References

    Can You Stop the Rain Wikipedia
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