Rain on the Roof - Lovin' Spoonful

[TheWierdkid99]

I'm 12. I love this music.

[wfarrar69]

#10pop,1966. 3people has leaks in their house when it rains.

[avdreader1]

How can anybody not LOVE this?

[14wafflesandpancakes]

I love all the old happy songs like this :D aha I live in the wrong generation for music :/

[56richardcory]

It's okay to have your own personal preferences and tastes. But remember that other tastes and preferences are not wrong, just different. One of the great unspoken truths is that there is always not just one, but 100 right ways of doing anything. Take Care, Buddy.

[ThePattyo7]

the lovin' spoonful never recorded a bad song some were kinda silly but NEVER bad. I still have all my old 33 & 45s. they were true musical genius's.

[trouthunter001]

great music, great time in life, I barely listen to the radio anymore because of the crap they call rap. It would be nice to hear music from the 60's and 70's come back again instead of the dribble and violent songs that are out there for the young generation to listen too, and we wonder why kids kill themselves or their classmates, how pathetic the "music" of today has become.

[kurtmanerz1]

I find it hard to understand why people who froth about the openess and variety of music from the 1960's turn around and close their minds to entire genres of music...'Don't be a reactionary' should be one of the things we learned from Sixties culture, but maybe some people were absent that day...

[BelindaKyle]

Sweet song, gentle when we needed a gentleness. The reaction is "Who writes this stuff now?" = nobody.

[alfalfafarms]

@BelindaKyle So true, and lot of them seal from these, but still sound terrible

[suze2012]

OMG I almost forgot about this song. So nice. What wonderful musical years those were….

[JayBBluejay]

When touring, the Lovin' Spoonful consists of Joe Butler, Jerry Yester (who replaced Zal Yanovsky), and Steve Boone. John Sebastian has his own jug band and he doesn't tour with the Spoonful anymore. I respect John as a musician and songwriter, but I guess touring with the Spoonful would be painful since the death of his friend and fellow bandmate Zal Yanovsky.

[sliveronyx]

Can't believe I was only 13 or 14 when this song came out! I loved it then and I still love it, now! I wish John was still writing songs like this!

sliveronyx

[sliveronyx]

Can't believe I was only 13 or 14 when this song came out! I loved it then and I still love it, now! I wish John was still writing songs like this!

[livingalifeoflove]

why are we hating on other genres of music? everyone has their own taste. i perfer this era but hey everyones different. lets just enjoy the music! peacefully

[ScunneredMan]

Have to agree with the comments. One of the best songs written.

Only one thing. Punks listen to Punk and Rapper fans listen to Rap music. Both types come under one heading though. CRAP MUSIC.

[landrykkb]

Another underrated ballad not just by the Lovin' Spoonful,but perhaps of all time!

[seanbourkebooks]

I have always loved the Lovin' Spoonful since I first heard them in the 1960s. I can't believe I am still here in the 21st century listening to them! Roll on, John B!

[bluegrassreb1]

JS kicks ass!!!!!!

[barrycards]

I saw this guy in concert at Hyde Park where it was raining and he asked the people in the front to sit down so the people at the back could see. He then ask for any request and sang of all songs rain on the roof. GREAT i had a tent

[TheBlueCream]

such an evocative song...thanks !

[moxie96]

used to sing this at my sister when I was 2 it actually irked her because I was too cute doing it and that I couldn't really talk yet so it was in baby burblings but I had the melody down tight! I got up and sang along everytime it came on the radio once she turned it down on me but I kept going and when she turned it up I was at the right place with the radio so she gave up and let me do it until they stopped playing it. Didn't hear it again until I was 15!

[ReneeNme]

Thank you for posting this wonderful, wonderful song DesmonJones.

[mick59707]

dit is nu een plaat waar ik stil van wordt,lekker wegdromen naar het verleden,

heerlijk!!

[yvettelisa26]

my dad made me listen to lovin spoonful when i was little . I never understood the musical genius of these guys but summer in the city is my all time favorite!! Too bad crap music is the only thing commercialized now

[ZZJoCa]

One of my all time favorites. The song, instrumentation, production and especially Johns voice paint a masterpiece, not too different than Rembrandt and Beethoven. I'm of an age to agree with some of the posts but have heart, some contemporary bands have had their moments. How about Six Pence None the Richer's "Kiss Me?" That's also gonna be an iconic work of art.

[pilesovinyl]

There is NOBODY writing this type of music today. We were so lucky to grow up in a generation of classic songwriters and some of the greatest music ever. WOW.

[corganpork]

@pilesovinyl

Well, Brian Wilson still makes music.

But that`s about it!

[pilesovinyl]

@corganpork Yeah, and I still follow my 60s heroes that are still active. Eric Burdon, Ray Davies, there`s a few more that are still able to produce good new material, but its largely overlooked by a young crowd looking for a Lady Gaga or Fergie record.

[jimbronxny]

brings backs happy times

[mldbb2]

60's music is great! WHO wants to hear about sex, drugs and killing??? NOT ME! I like to relax and enjoy the music I listen to and the sixties are it!! John Sebastian brings back great memories of younger days and dancing and FUN!

[thew]

@mldbb2 hah. this music was about sex and drugs. but not killing. fantastic time

[fanwopdoo]

Don't get carried away mc2NY. It's hardly as if this is Bob Dylan or anything.

[nanlisa]

My father once said that WFIL (the Top 40 station in Philadelphia at that time) would shock his transistors. Well that was nothing compared to all this junk that's out today..

He's a Big Band nut. After all, he was a teenager during World War II, and that type of music is just as timeless as the music of the 60's.

[nanlisa]

Sixties music is just timeless. More than just timeless. It was the music of my childhood. Give me this music instead of all this garbage that's out today.

[Tonithenightowl]

@nanlisa well said. I was born in 1953 and I love 50's and 60's music but I came into my own in the 60's and it was a great time for music. We had rock and roll, folk music, the British Invasion, and Motown and then psychedelic and heavy metal. Needless to say there was never a generation that pulled this off like ours.

[VALZONE03]

the summer of '66 .

[bush1tman]

I'm sure they got caught for hours and there's no doubt John lost a 'lovin' spoonful' on this rainy day. ha ha lol

[saucyman74]

Great song, great group! Brings back a lot of nice, warm memories.

[caligrafer514]

I saw them open for Deep Purple at the Ampitheater in Chicago and he got booed off the stage in 1971

[HerrSweeny]

Anyone else hear a bit of The Perfect Nanny from Mary Poppins?

[ChrisCurtisFan]

We loved them then and we love them now!

[dannyrose55]

love this song

[mc2NY]

Maybe the ONLY American '60s band that could consistently write songs on par with The Beatles. Great band in their day. Their stuff still holds up after 40+ years.

[landrykkb]

@mc2NY John Sebastian's songwriting is overlooked compared to the Beatles.

[guidoman]

Beautiful steel guitar on this track. Studio musicians doing their thing--so often overlooked

[captainsoul1953]

Not at all...its the great sounds Erik Jacobson got from Zallys guitar

Jim

[Starrman69]

Haven't heard this in years! Thanks for the post.

[TsukaiDaiku]

Thank you...Just thank you!

[byebyelove1944]

Nice old tune, but not my favourite SPOONFUL song really. Thanks for sharing it. Peter

[zippy830]

This song is about the acid trips the band would take after each concert. It's how Al Gore came up with the idea for acid rain when he was high, Tipper then began wanting to ban certain lyrics. It's true. Look it up.

[captainsoul1953]

The Spoonful albums never really got much credit but they are every bit as good as anything that came out in that period..so well made and produced by Erik Jacobson

Jim

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

They had hit after hit. We loved them back in the 60's. They were well known in a crowd. They also have been inducted into the r & r hall of fame. Maybe they didn't get much airplay in your corner of the world?

[utubemusiccritic]

For a changeup, now check out "Do You Believe in Magic" by John and The Lovin Spoonful.

[beggarsgame]

Thanks so much for posting this awesome Spoonful tune.. one of my very favorites!

[hondella14]

Wow! Never knew this song existed! Wow!

[wheatbomb52]

totally 60:s

[bookkeeper57]

Takes me right back to the 1960s. So innocent it sounds like it came from another planet; today.

[bboucharde]

@bookkeeper57 Yes, you are very correct....Another planet, another culture, another time......The current popular music* is simply awful.....The harmony, pathos, and melody are not there, and the lyrics are vapid, depressing, or banal. Maybe all of the original, beautiful melodies and lyrics have been written? *Excepting folk, jazz, country, & some international

[mc2NY]

John Sebastian is STILL on my Top 10 Pop Songwriters list more than 40 years after this was done. His stuff sure holds up over time. I would bet everything I own that there will not be a single rap song that you can say that about in 40 years from now :)

[oldgordo61]

I totally agee.

[bloodreddahlia]

Hmmm..."Rapper's Delight" is one of my favorite songs, released in 1982...is that close enough or do you want to go the whole 40? Why does everyone have to pick on hip hop, anyway? You don't like it, fine, but leave it.

[airnsmke]

@mc2NY yea thats very true. and another thing, you listened to this when you were younger right, now after i don't know how long you can still enjoy it and listen to it. do you think anyone who listens to rap music now is going to grow up and be in there 50s and 60s and say "i think i'll go put on my old biggie smalls album". no because rap is all about sex and drugs and killing, how can any one relate to that now let alone when your in your older years. thats a huge problem with ALL new music

[spacepatrolman]

@mc2NY back in the early 1970s they were just getting around to inducting hoagy carmichael in to the songwriters hall of fame now they have john sebastian ,brian wilson , burt bacharach they are at 42nd street in new york .

[drachir6]

@mc2NY 

[frogman162]

@mc2NY I love this kind of music more than any else, but golden age hip-hop will also live on forever. Tupac, Biggie, Jay Z and Eminem are to Solja Boy, T-Pain and other recent MTV bullshit rap as The Bealtes and Lovin Spoonful are to Kurt Cobain, Slipknot and other garbage that ruined rock n' roll for my generation.

[mc2NY]

@frogman162 Sorry...I disagree. Rap/hip hop will not live on in the same way as pop songs because the genre does not lend itself to cover version by other artists. It is like covering another writer's poem. The main hooks in rap/hip hop are already stolen from real songs, in order to make them catchy enough to release/market....so, in essence, the only original part of the work is the lyric/rap and the mix. Most are remixed in many versions, showing that it is generic, not art -- Warhol soup.

[ThePaddyjoejr1]

@frogman162 Hip Hop & Rap Sucks!

[davidsonclan01]

@mc2NY His work is so enduring. Such vision.

[KayPeepers]

@mc2NY

hopefully most punks who still listen to that rap junk will have all died off in 40 years

[HandaCarr]

My dad has the Lovin' Spoonfuls greatest hits on record. I love listening to this song because it's so sweet and catchy.

[thijedeman]

super song i agree with GTOGreg and ililooDANCEoolili it's timeless

[ililooDANCEoolili]

I agree with GTOGreg. The Spoonful are awesome! I'm nineteen and I know that there isn't and never will be anyone as great as them; nor the Monkees, Mamas and Papas, Beatles, any of those great bands. This music is timeless!

[caran26]

Did you listen to Creeque Alley of the Mamas & the Papas ?

[GTOGreg]

You could play this song on any alternative/modern rock radio station TODAY in 2008 and it the phone would be ringing off the hook with people asking "who was that?!? It was off the hinges!"