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  • PRAISE THE lord my grandma Sarah MOSS R.I.P.sanctified woman may she stay in my heart shes always in my heart.I were about 6 and up.IM 37 NOW GRANDMA ALWAYS played this song.Thank you JESUS.

  • i love this song God is so good

  • 1 person got caught in the rain.

  • My momma use to sing this song when she was little and went to a country and she said there choir used to kill this sing. And every time this song come the radio she tell use that story. #truegospel so happy i finally found this song.

  • Oh my I remember this song, I was lil but this was the song to sing in the chi

  • THATS RIGHT CHITOWN BORN AND RAISED

  • I support my aunt Delorse all the remeber the days in church lov u aunt Delorse.

  • Oh I love this song!! Brings back memories from college choir days at Hampton University!!

  • Still sounding great!!

  • @ B2L4LIFE "It's Gonna Rain" Ending: (lyrics below)

  • Ending: (Door is standing open)

    Door stands wide open

    just call His name, don't wait too late because it's gonna rain. (To close..If I am not mistaken, I believe this is the correct lyric for this song.

  • Part 2Lead: (in parenthesis) (You better come on in this house), (it's gonna rain), it's gonna rain. (Rain down fire), (it's gonna rain), come on in this house. (Come on in this house), (it's gonna rain), it's gonna rain. (Rain down fire), (it's gonna rain), come on in this house.Bridge: (Door is standing open) Door stands wide open just call His name, don't wait too late because it's gonna rain. Vamp: Come on follow me, it's gonna rain. 
  • “It’s Gonna’ Rain”-Rev. Milton Brunson and The Thompson Community Singers

    Sopranos: Can't you see the clouds gathering?

    Altos: Don't let it be, said too late.

    Tenors: There's a brand new feeling in the air.

    Baritones: Better run, in the ark, before the rain starts.

  • 1 person got stuck in the rain

  • this song had me hell scared when i was little....i love this song now... im sanctified now!!!!:) real gospel music.

  • This song also gives me chills from the cradle to now and forver.Masterpiece.5 stars.Complements to the songs composer(s).lol

  • Ahhh. So good to hear soul stirring gospel music. Thank you

  • ummmmm......anybody got the lyrics to this song? especially the bridge? I wanna teach it to my choir. Thanks!

  • I love this song when I was young and loved singing it in the choir, I still listen to this song to this day. So powerful to me.

  • I had this cassette when it came out in the 80s, I've followed the Tommies ever since, no other choir or soloists that can do what they did to music. The Pentecostal movement (UPC) used alot of thier songs back in the 80's and so glad they did, the songs had the holy ghost in them.

  • I LOVE THIS SONG!! MY FAVORITE!!! A CHOIR HAS TO SING THIS AT MY FUNERAL!!CHOIRS DONT SING LIKE THIS ANYMORE!! I LOVE THIS SONG!! CLASSIC! I LOVE HER VOICE!

  • I LOVE THIS SONG!! MY FAVORITE!!! A CHOIR HAS TO SING THIS AT MY FUNERAL!!

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  • Looking to post the remaing songs off this album.

  • I love this song...

  • Man, this song was always playing in my house on Sunday Morning! My mom had a cassette tape with this song and would blast this song!! Praise God for gifted vessels like Mrs.Powell-Harrington who allowed the spirit to minister through her to millions!!1 May she know her work is not in vain!!! Thank you for posting this!!

  • @missninanicole: please tell your mother what a beautiful gift she has! I truly love this song! GOD bless in all that you do!

  • i love this song!! ever since i was a kid.

  • we use 2 sing the mess out of this sog at my old church b4 i moved

  • OMGOODNESS I Love This Song!!!!!!

  • All of My choirs are still singing this song to this day!

  • I love his song so much!!!

    Five person family, four of which can sing.

    My little sister was soprano, I was soprano 2, my mother and older sister were alto, and my dad.... well he just tried and I would take the lowest part :D

  • what are the lyrics to this song?

  • MYYY GOD!!! YOU HAVE no idea how much this song means to me. this is when I first started singing in the choir. I was 7 years olds. Of course, I think I song the soprano part LOL... but this song set the pace for the many years I was musically involved...Bless you

  • Thanks you!!!! I'd been looking for this forever! I played bass on the USS Kittyhawk '04 to '07, wanted to cover this with the Gospel band onboard, but didn't know the name or the piano parts...before everyone had IPods and such...oh well. But, great record!

  • i love this song

    

  • In 1982 Bowiling Green State University of Ohio used to tear this song up. I was a part of that choir.

  • Is that kim mcfarland singing lead?

  • @bradleyk41 No. It is Delores Powell-Harrington. Though Kim is a great singer, she would have only been about 12 or 13 when this song was realeased.

  • @minjalewissr Kim was singing with Walt Whitman & The Soul Children of Chicago back at this time

  • What happened to GOSPEL music? Anybody fell me?

    This was REAL music and still is. I was knee high when this song was out.

    Somewhere we've gone wrong.

  • @Mjpawmi I wasn't even born when this song came out!! My late aunt was young when she led this song for our choir...when i got old enough to know about it, I can agree..somebody didn't like the way REAL gospel music is supposed to be sung and now that's why we have songs that circulate just as long as R&B songs...2 months then looking for the next hit. Songs like this, "You Brought the Sunshine" & "Peace Be Still" are STILL bumping live with the Holyghost!!

  • @Mjpawmi i wasn't alive during this time but this song still rocks

    

  • @Mjpawmi I don't want to sound like an old person, but secular "worldly" music infiltered the church. Trying to appeal to a younger audience and stay current. Back in the day, gospel had a sound and secular music had a sound. If anything gospel music influenced secular music. Now it's the other way around.

  • @Mjpawmi no one went wrong..times are changing and people have to get the message across the best way they know how to..some people are simply not attracted to this kind of music..it's not their fault, they just like what they like..and as long as they're getting the message, that's all that matters

  • They about to make me shout and I'm in the house. LOL!!! Sing y'all!!

    I remember I use to hear this song EVERY Sunday morning before church!

  • i wasnt even born when this song came out but i luv it

  • I have been looking for this song for soooo long. THANK YOU for posting this!!!!!!!!

  • I used to listen to this song with my mother and still do.

  • WOW!!!

  • I was 7 when this came out. My parents used to pump this album all the time along with a bunch of others. I never knew Marvin Winans wrote this. This is a straight classic

  • WHAT A CLASSIC I REMEMBER MY CHOIR SINGING THIS I WAS TWO YEARS OLD WHEN THIS CAME OUT OMG . . LOL . . I LEARNED HOW TO PLAY IT EVENTUALLY IN THE 90'S AND THEN TAUGHT IT TO MY YOUTH CHOIR

  • Omg I love this song I remember listening to it when I was a child. 

  • I love that transition at 2:09. That choir is TIGHT!

  • Does anyone have a copy of the correct words to this song

  • My children were babies when I sang this song with a choir in San Bernardino, CA. A 16-yr-old sang this song EXACTLY like Delores Powell. I am STILL blessed by the ministry of her voice. Kind of interesting thinking about listening to her singing -- from the inside out! :) God bless you @JayFyv and loves to your mommy

  • Wow this brings back memories

  • Amen This song is fiyah. I was a kid when I heard this

  • I was three yrs. old when this came out and it was my favorite back then just as it still is now and my parents still own their original copy.

  • "It's time to come on in the Ark before the Rain Start, don't let it be said to late."

  • Wow this song brings back so many memories of when we used to listen to(De) Loris singing and playing her piano in the back room in the house on Lockwood while Nicky, Reggie, Liz , and I used to play upstairs! Before she even cut this song I knew her voice belong on radio!!! You better sing auntie!!!

  • Oh praise God! Finally some REAL GOSPEL again. I remember this when I was a kid, and my church learned it for Choir Day. I was playing drums, and I felt like I was having an OBE because the Holy Spirit was so strong. Notice the energy, the anointing, and how the lead vocalist's voice is an instrument. She's not just singing "runs" for the sake of self-absorbed vocal acrobatics. The choir is singing with PASSION. I miss this so much, I could cry!!!!

  • I remember when I was a little boy, our choir sang this and i've been in love with this song forever.

  • ain't nothing wrong with this song. no sir!

  • breath-taking, I so Love this song......

  • ha i heard this song on the radio and loved it since thanx for posting this

  • I LOVE THIS SONG. THANK YOU!!!

  • i realy love this song

  • GREEAATNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I love her voice.....powerful....this whole combination is like wow..... we will be waiting for her up coming music...God gave her talent

  • She sang her heart out....I love love love this song...this version

  • i lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvve this song!

  • I'VE BEE N LOOKING FOR THIS SONG EVERY WHERE HAVENT HEARD SINCE I WA LIKE 10

  • i so love this song

  • OMG im 19 yrs. old and  we brought this song back about 2 years ago i love it !!!!

  • Yessssssssssssssssssss!

    I have been lookinq for this for so long

    ----Thanks For Uploading =)

  • man i love this song, our chior sings this song. the leader sounds just like our chior director lol . awesome song.

  • i cant stop listening to this. my favorite gospel song. I Love it!!

  • minjalewissr, you rock! Thanks for submitting this video!

  • Can't you see the cloud gathering Don't let it be said too late There's a brand new feeling in the air Better run to the ark, before the rain starts You better come on in this house it's gonna rain It's gonna rain. (repeat) Doors have been Opened wide open Just call his name Don't wait too late because It's Gonna rain Come on follow me, It's gonna rain (repeat) Doors have been Opened wide open Just call his name Don't wait too late because It's Gonna rain
  • One of my all time favorites, if not THE favorite!!!! Love the female lead vocal. Love the arrangement of all the choir sections.

  • this song is my joint!

  • God, I love this song.

    I first heard it on KURS gospel radio, in San Diego. I actually called them to get the title.

    So glad to have found it on youtube.

    Thanks so much for this, minjalewissr!

    So moving. So sweet, strong and true.

  • @ minjalewissr ... Not yet. We are working on that and a host of other marketing projects. I will keep you posted.

  • @ minjalewissr... Thank you, so much for adding her name to your post. I will pass your message on to my mom. Oh... be on the look out. We are working on a new project now for release next year. Thanks, again!

  • @missninanicole12 Thanks for the tip. I look forward to the release of the project. Does your church or choir have a web site?

  • My mom is Delores Powell-Harrington, the original lead singer (and the woman sitting In the center of the choir on the album cover) of the recording done in 1982.

    If you live in the Chicago area and would like to hear her in person, she will be singing and delivering the Mothers Day message this Sunday at the New Rose of Sharon Church in Dixmoor, Il, where she is now the 1st Lady.

    Thank you all for your comments. My mom reads them all the time. God Bless!

  • @missninanicole12 Thank you for providing information on the soloist. Please tell your mom that she is greatly appreaciated by all who hear this song. I've often said she sounds very similar to my mom. Be blessed and know it!

  • @minjalewissr do u have a pic of your mom

  • @mike2004000444 I do have a pic of my mom, but she's not the lady singing this song. My mom's voice sounds a lot like Lady Delores Powell-Harrington. According to missninanicole12, Lady Harrington is in the center of the photo from the album cover.

  • @missninanicole12 Tell your mom THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant hear this song without thinking back to my young days, sitting on the floor in the living room with this record playing. My wife just bought me a new record player becuase I found this alblum on Ebay and it's been killing me to play it! What a treat. Thanks for the connection. What an anointed voice! WOW!!!!

  • OMG my mom used to make me and my cousins sing this song when we were like aged 3-5 yrs old, we all had a part and she was the director--to this day we all remember what part we had. I love this song

  • man our choir used to tear this up when I was little... I think this is the song that made me give my life to Christ.. Thank you Jesus..

  • How do I find mp3iifffy to download this song? I was told to google mp3iifffy.

  • i remember we sang this back in college!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!

  • classi!

  • I love this song, thanks for posting this. It brightened my day

  • I haven't heard this song since my years at T.C. in the gospel choir Sounds of Joy.

  • CLASSIC!

  • I haven't hear this album and almost over 25 years.

  • aww i remember singing this when i was a lil christian.

  • i love this song

  • Andrae Crouch has a song titled "It's Gonna Rain, but the lyrics and music are totally different...I like this one waaay better : )

  • i absolutely agree

  • WASNT THERE A MORE UPDATED AND RECENT VERSION? LIKE SOME OTHER CHOIR DID IT. ok iwant that one Pleas?

  • @lil08shaheen There was another version. It's been posted on youtube as The Tommies "It's Gonna Rain" but the sound has been removed because of copyright issues. The choir was singing it live at an awards show. If you're really looking for it, you might be able to find it on Amazon or itunes as Fire Next Time.

  • I don't know about all that all i know is, my Pastor has told us the story too many times about him writing this song, now when the Winans first signed to Andrae Crouch's label i know Bishop told us that they had control over the music soo maybe thats why Andrae got the credit, but my Pastor wrote it!

  • How about the bass on this song. Played by Steve Huff. Nice tone and groove.

  • I thought Andrae Crouch wrote this song.

  • he did write it

  • @loaactnow The album credits Marvin Winans as the composer of It's Gonna Rain and Never Say No.

  • well, that is not correct because for sure it was written by Andre Crouch

  • Actually no Marvin Winans wrote this!!!!

  • PROVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • LOL, well i have the album right here but i can't show you! LOL, but also he's my Pastor, and he's told the story over and over about when he first wrote this song and how he taught to his church choir @ Shalom Temple (the church where he was before he Pastored)

  • Interesting

  • Written by Andre Crouch, Publisher: Lexicon Music-Crouch Music/ASCAP

  • The credits on the album cover say Marvin Winans. I just double checked the credits on the album itself and it says Andre Crouch. It appears the back of the album cover where most copyright info was printed is wrong and has been since 1982.

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  • Andrae` Crouch wrote another song titled "It's Gonna Rain" copyright 1981 Bud Johnson Songs/Crouch Music/ASCAP/admin. by EMI-CMP. It's from the Light Records release More of the Best (1981).

    I think it would be rather ironic if he wrote two songs with the same title but much different lyrics.

  • one of the best!

  • i luved thiz song to death when i was a small child and i still do.... lol

  • "Come on follow me its gonna rain"

    What an awesome chorus!

  • this song brings back so many memories

  • Hi everyone. I think this song holds a little bit more of a special place in my heart and life than you all could imagine. 27 years ago I was in the belly of the lead vocalist, Delores Powell as she was recording and touring. My mom is still a powerhouse in ministry to this day, and as we all know the song is still in regular rotation, even tho she got zero credit. She will always and forever be my hero, musically an in life. FYI...she was very grown even though she sounds 13. -Jason

  • @JayFyv your mom sounds a little like my mom on this song. Though my mom has never sang this song, her voice is similar to your mom's when she says, "You better come on in this house, it's gonna rain."

  • This was the Jam back in the Day I haven't heard 4 part harmony songs in a long time

  • My graduating class in 8th grade sung this song and killed it

  • I LOVE this song!!! It brings back so many memories. It's so inspirational. I absolutely can NOT have r&b and rap in my collection w/o gospel as head of my life and the strength of my salvation-LAUGH!. After all, just like rock n roll in it's prime-gospel paved the way!!! :)

  • Had no idea that Marvin Winans wrote it. We learned this at choir rehearsal about a month ago

  • This takes me back. My mom used to sing this a long time ago in our church choir

  • I used to love this song. I didn't know Marvin wrote this. He's an anointed man.

  • Wow!! I didnt know Marvin Winans wrote this song?! This was the jam back in the day!!

  • I love this song so muchh...

  • were totally singing this song in Black Music Ensemble at Berea College right now.

  • this is my JAAAAAAMMMMMMMM! yeeeeesss! yall bettah run to that ark before the rain starts! lol

  • YES!!! Remember this song when I was a kid. Hearing it brings back fond memories. Love it!

  • omg...our youth choirs used to sing this....brings back so many memories. can't believe this is on youtube.

  • this sounds higher than normal

  • It was recorded from the album onto a tape and then transfered to my laptop. Please see my comments on He'll Make It Alright and There Is No Way. Thanks for listening anyway. Be blessed and know it!

  • I luv it! :)

  • my church choir the Anointed Vessels of Worship

    BethlehemTemple-Flint,MI will be ministering this in one of our Sunday Morning Worship services song very soon

  • Lead singer sounds a bit like Michael Jackson in his Jackson 5 days.

  • wow.. I remember when the young adult choir sang this! I was in the childrens choir back inthem dayz! lol

  • This song was a a part of my childhood.. it means so much to me even to this day...

  • Nothin' but the best by the best, Rev. Milton Brunson and The Thompson Community Singers. They are untouchable!!!!!

  • Now, you talkin bout havin sum chuch! I remember at the Greater Lincoln Park Church of Christ in San Antonio, Texas - The Radio & Television Broadcast Choir did this song and wore the Alamo City Out! People from miles around took out to get to the church to see what was really going on! Elder William A. Ellis at that time held service way into the early morning hours! A Cloud descended in the choir and many lives were reclaimed and healed and many more were Saved!

  • my choir did this for a reunion concert and rocked the house

  • New Hope Baptist Church Cherub Choir 1989.

  • this is like muh favorite song ever>>!

  • OMG God bless you! i have been trying to find this song for a while... i love you!

  • Wow!!!!! Havent heard this in years!!!!! Now if I can find Andrae Crouch's I Wanna Be Ready (No Time)!

  • I can't believe I am finding so many old favs tonight. Thanks for sharing this.

  • we song this for choir aniiversary like when i was 5 or 6. we tore it up. i miss greater peace choir

  • i am only 21, but our youth choir in vicksburg, ms. use to sing this every 4th sunday. Also, I think I;ve played at HOPEWELL MB CHURCH.. i was returning from tour and my boi Nathaniel EdWARds asked me to do him a favor..lol Marvin wrote this?

  • Hopewell in Milwaukee Wi ?

  • I remember singing this song (Meridian, MS) and I had to be about 8 as well and I just knew I was jammin on soprano!

  • I was like 7 or 8 years old going to Hopewell Missionary baptist Church. This was my favorite song. After my mother made me put on one tennis shoe and one church shoe because i would hide my shoes thinkin she might say stay home. NOT SO... AND I WAS GLAD TO HAVE A MOTHER AND NOT A FREIND.!!!!

  • All of these years and I never EVER knew my man Marvin Winans wrote this!!!! Now I love him even more. (Not really my man, just love his spirit) Go head Pastor!

  • i remember our kids choir use to march in on this song....that's when choirs use to march in to the songs...

  • u kno..... not anymore.. thank god my church is classic

  • i love this song..i hate our choir never got a chance to sing this

  • Your choir was made up of old missionaries !!!

  • hahaha yea!

  • WHY iiS THiiS S0NG S0 HiiGH!!!! l0l

    ii L0VE iiT S0 MUCH

  • Man.....do you know how long I've been looking for this song? Powerful!

  • This is classic....

  • can't you see the clouds gathering

    don't let it be said to late

    there's a brand new feeling in the air

    better run to the ark before the rain starts

    i love this song best in the world

  • we had to sing this in chruch..a lot back in da early 90's

  • Lord take me back! lol Thank you Lord! It's gonna rain.

  • I never knew this was the Tommies. I thought it was the Hawkins. That's why I couldn't find it. Praise the Lord!

  • Dummy !!

  • i still got this record and his other ones as well i was born that year. someone need to remake that song a choir i would say let karen or dorinda sing the lead part

  • YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

    OMG!!!! This is one my ABSOLUTE favorites..

  • I remember when this came out, I loved them ever since, have most of thier stuff.

  • This was the first album I bought by Rev. Brunson and the Tommies. I still have it. I'm going to have to dust it off. Thank you so much for posting this gem.

  • can anyone get a copy of the album for me

  • I don't know about the album, but this song is on Rev. Milton Brunson's Thompson Community Singers "50 Blessed Years" CD...