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Rainy Day People

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B-side
  
"Cherokee Band"

Format
  
7" 45 RPM

Length
  
2:48

Released
  
March 1975

Genre
  
Folk

Label
  
Reprise

"Rainy Day People" is a song written and recorded by Gordon Lightfoot, released on his 1975 album, Cold on the Shoulder, and also as a single. "Rainy Day People" went to number twenty-six on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Lightfoot's last of four songs to reach number one on the Easy Listening chart, spending one week at number one in May 1975.

Personnel: Gordon Lightfoot, Vocal, acoustic guitar Terry Clements: acoustic guitar Red Shea: Acoustic guitar Rick Haynes: Bass Pee Wee Charles: Pedal steel guitar Nick DeCaro: Piano, string arrangement Jim Gordon: Drums

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Rainy Day People Wikipedia