Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads - The Little White Cloud That Cried

[ruswhit60]

My dad liked this song

[abcd0123504]

Thanks for the memory's. My grandmother just loved Johnnie Ray. She loved the songs and wrote and sang.

[NickInfante92]

i remember this from the episode guess who's coming to visit from happy days

[geetarnut]

why don't we have such beautiful, emotional and "real" music like this anymore, please tell me someone!?!?!

[geetarnut]

This beautiful song gets me right in the gizzard every time,, it's the most sentimental song I've heard in a long long time, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!!! Kleenex makes a fortune from me!

[MsKJasmine]

wow so cute :(

[20101225]

podrian poner los subtitulos de esta cancion?

[Juliacries]

thanks for posting it.. I love this song

[jjkoekemoer]

Gorgeous tune, thank's for posting

[999clever]

Sweet!

I found this song in the 1952 chart @ billboardvideos.(net)

[3k8k8k8]

omg read The Lost Art of Keeping secrets and Johnny Ray features

in it & Presley too. Great novel !!

[fromthesidelines]

The Four Lads were credited only on the original copies of the record (and several LP's). Subsequent reissues had them omitted from the label...

[w3442]

Daddy sang this beautiful song to you my darling...Always with love..I fave this song to you Susann..Rest in Peace.

[w3442]

In rememberance of my Ex(now passesd away)I fave this song for her..

[casketkey]

WOW.........

[lillabett1]

this was number one the day i was born

[20101225]

hermosa letra de esta cancion en verdad te hace llorar

[paulescott67]

Timeless is all I can say about this.

[rasurado03]

traduzcanla por favor es hermosa

[rockinpete]

dad liked johnnie ray rest in peace 10/10/1933-10/3/2010 miss u dad

[idontdothatdou]

@rockinpete  No disrespect but check those dates

[20101225]

por favor podria alguien traducir esta cancion al español, dicen que tiene una letra hermosa se los voy a agradedecer mucho

[JbrickM100A]

To this day, I can't spin "Cry" without spinning "The Little White Cloud." Still have the old 78s and they sound great for being 78s. This song was one of the first songs I learned by heart.

[HuggableAngel]

A Favourite :)

[betterbite]

Johnnie is very good with this - but has anyone got a track called A Touch Of Gods Hand to post ????!!!!

[Steacy783]

I still ,,, have this on an old 78 handed down and scratched terribly but eh,, I got it !!:) Thnks4post !:)

[goosia90]

masterpiece.. . !

[ambrocioacosta]

i went walkin' down by the river

feeling very sad inside

when all at once i saw in the sky

the little white cloud that cried

He told me he was very lonesome

and no one cared if he lived or died

and said sometimes the thunder and lightning

make all little clouds hide

[ambrocioacosta]

He said "have faith in all kinds of weather"

"for the sun will always shine"

"do your best and always remember"

"the dark clouds pass with time"

He asked if i'd tell all my world

just how hard those little clouds try

that's how i know i'll always remember

the little white cloud that sat right down and cried

(the little white cloud that cried)

[Wittkopp94]

ey guys, i know that every johnnie ray song in any form is fantastic, but the best he has sung this song is the video 'Johnnie Ray - The little white cloud that cried - live' posted by jt20042 trust me its worth it!=)

[xbox360rules8121]

a kids in my classes great grandpa is in the four lads

[josephinewaites]

I worked with Helen in Toronto in 1954. She met Jimmy of the 4 Lads and married him. I have met them all - they were fabulous. They are Canadian - did you know that.

Regards

Jo Waites - Toronto, aged 71-3/4

[algywatt]

For an upbeat 50's song...try Connie Francis's "Stupid Cupid" or"Lipstick on your collar"....or you can right back to the mid 50's with songs like"Botch-a-me" and "Mambo Italiano"...both by Rosemary Clooney.(Georges' Aunt...I think)

[tabitwin]

i need an up-beat, sung by a girl song from the 1950s for a talent show...any ideas?

[HostileHippie]

Pink Shoelaces by Dodi Stevenson?

[tabitwin]

i like that song! (i looked it up) but she doesn't really sing and i have to sing it.

[vinegate]

brillant

[cmsingerbill]

Awesome !!!!

[raggedydear]

An oldie, but a goodie. :-)

[mccredie09]

He had hearing problems and would hold his ear to get an echo effect. Had it fixed and never sounded as good again.

[GracieDuffy]

I didn't remember him either. I looked him up today because I am reading The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets. I grew up in the 50's and actually I did remember Cry.

The book is good!

[VPrice5612]

didnt even know about him, but had to search on youtube since Im reading the lost art of keeping secrets. It really sets the period!

[singinjohnny]

My Mom used to sing this song and also "Cry" to me with her beautiful voice when I was 2 or 3. It's interesting, Johnny Ray somewhat resembled James Coburn. I never realized it until I saw this.

[martinbeckthefirst]

I remember playing " hooky " and hanging out at the luncheonette (it was called " cozy corner ) on Ralph ave in Brooklyn . Just a few blocks from " Samual J. Tilden " High school . That was when I first heard this tune I was eating a burger and drinking a milkshae and lo and behold the truent officer walks in and makes a bee line to me .

[lsdpoet]

Hey martinbeckthefirst, i went to Tilden and the same luncheonette you mentioned in the '60's...what years were you there?...

[lookattheskye]

'the lost art of keeping secrets' - eva rice. Read it!

[geogem59]

It was really great to hear Johhny again...  He was great and so unique.

[lynneb88]

there is a book, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets..the main characters are obsessed w/ Johnnie Ray & it also includes a guinea pig named Marina :)

[xwhirlwind]

aw i LOVE that book. actually i'm reading it right now. again...

[lynneb88]

It's a keeper :)

[Alternativesoul2008]

They played this on like the first episode of Happy Days that I saw. At the time ABC showed re-runs at about 11:30am before the news at noon.

[neighborhoodnobody]

Yeah, I know the episode you're talking about. TV networks used to run re-runs of their old primetime series in daytime (this practice ceased in the early '90s). I remember ABC-TV running old Happy Days episodes in daytime back in 1976. when the series had only been around for 2 seasons. Usually, networks would not run re-runs of old shows 5 days per week unless the series had run at least 3 seasons. Happy Days was a swell exception. The best episodes in the series were in the first 2 seasons!

[slak65]

We're playing this at my grandma's funeral on Wednesday , it's so sad

[snowmaiden41]

Alwyas liked this song

[Shrekuck]

You know what's funny?

My guinea pig's name is White Cloud. haha

[oldiesbutgoodies4you]

lol cool!

[t60nyj]

the bizz

[ant67hony]

sooooooooooo many happy memories...thanx 4 da post

[oldiesbutgoodies4you]

no problem at all!

[ftenzer]

It is a beautiful but sad song.

[oldiesbutgoodies4you]

Indeed!

[perfectstar14]

I never knew that Johnnie wrote this song. Thanks for sharing that little information with all of Johnnie's fans. I have always loved the song, now I love it even more now that I know he wrote it. It is a sad song, it makes you wonder if he was sad when he was writing it. He had an amazing voice, he is missed so much.

[cristoforoantonio]

this is truly one of the best recordings of that era! what a great voice!!

[Labaron26]

I can remember seeing Johnny in person at the old Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh in 1953, with the Four Lads as his back up singers.

[vallo3838]

I knew Johnnie personally and he was a great

person with a lot of talent.vallo38

[spaceball34]

Considering that this man was near deaf he had the most beautiful voice. A sad song, but one of the best.

[casiusvanhelsing]

Dammmn!man this song his very very sad!but it´s very very beautiful too!

[joomuck]

Johnny Rae is am American Classic; he had a tragic life; however, his music will continue to intertain this generation and, surely, the next.

[pornguy2]

I met Johnny Ray one summer about 1952-53, I think it was at the Russian River. I was not yet a teenager, but the thing I remember is that he was somewhat hard to talk to because he was deaf/near deaf. My mom said that was what made is voice so compelling. 55 years later I couldn't agree more.

[jax1961]

Thanks for posting this lovely but sad old song. I think it is my favorite of Mr. Rays

His voice was at it's peak I think.

[Freshaired]

used to cry to this as a kid...so nice to hear again..i dont cry now thank goodness!

[latykai]

its so great for you to have shared these memorable classics with us, thank you so much. on the brink of puberty and all that it entails about discovering the joys and heartbreaks of love's unbalancing acts, songs such as these releases those early emotions and allows one to look back and just smile.

[a5882]

this song is in the movie called:  joe the king

an awsome movie

an awsome song

[BANORA]

this is singing and this is a song - todays "music" if you can call it "music" is just a noise compared to songs and singers like this

[oldiesbutgoodies4you]

very true!

[7jwr3]

He gives me the chills

[joomuck]

I remember watching Johnny Ray on the Ed Sullivan show more years than I care to remember. He set the backstage drapes on fire, Ed shouted and the TV went blank; nothwithstanding, he was a very powerful preformer and singer. My favorite is 'walking my baby back home.

[humpy68]

I was just a little girl when he sang this. It really had a big impact on me everytime I looked at clouds I wondered if thats the one Johnny was talking about.

[latykai]

johnny i love your music. your still a classic, you brought a new deminsion to the 50's music mix. and it still lives in my heart

[CrybabyJosh]

I posted a video response, but only in tribute. Johnnie Ray is amazing and his voice is flawless.

[mickeyismyname]

I remember seeing Johnnie on tv in the 60's, singing this song. Sort of a "resurrection" or comeback guest spot. Captivating then, as now.

[UlricLloyd]

Wonderful!