Have You Ever Seen The Rain by jmjiloveyou

jmjiloveyou - Have You Ever Seen The Rain

jmjiloveyou

Jun 14, 2025 08:57am

<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cb/HYESTR-CCR.jpg/220px-HYESTR-CCR.jpg" height="220" width="220"> <h1>Have You Ever Seen the Rain?</h1>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"Have You Ever Seen the Rain" is a song by American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rock</a> band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Revival" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Creedence Clearwater Revival</a>, written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fogerty" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Fogerty</a> and released as a single in 1971 from the album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_(Creedence_Clearwater_Revival_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pendulum</a> (1970). The song charted highest in Canada, reaching number one on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">RPM 100</a> national singles chart in March 1971.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a> In the U.S., in the same year it peaked at number eight on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billboard Hot 100</a> singles chart.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-Billboard_-_Creedence_Clearwater_Revival_-_Chart_history-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[4]</a> On the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_Box" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cash Box</a> pop chart, it peaked at number three. In the UK, it reached number 36. It was the group's eighth gold-selling single.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[5]</a> In March 2023, the song surpassed one billion streams on Spotify,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[6]</a> being the oldest song to do so as of April 2024. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_Box" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cash Box</a> called the song "as close to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_ballad" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ballad</a> as anything from CCR."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[8]</a>Fogerty released a live version of the song on his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Road_Home_-_In_Concert" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Long Road Home - In Concert</a> DVD which was recorded at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiltern_Theatre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wiltern Theatre</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Los Angeles, California</a>, on September 15, 2005. A music video was released for the band's 50th anniversary on December 11, 2018.On the 2013 John Fogerty album, Wrote a Song for Everyone, a new recording of the song was included, featuring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Jackson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alan Jackson</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[9]</a><h2>Lyrics</h2>In his review of the song for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllMusic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AllMusic</a>, Mark Deming suggests that "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" is about the decline of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">countercultural</a> political idealism of the 1960s during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Richard_Nixon" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nixon administration</a>, in light of events such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Altamont Free Concert</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kent State shootings</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-10" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[10]</a> However, John Fogerty has said in interviews and prior to playing the song in concert that it concerns tensions within Creedence Clearwater Revival themselves and the imminent departure of his brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Fogerty" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tom Fogerty</a> from the band. In a 2020 interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Songwriter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">American Songwriter</a>, Fogerty stated that the line "Have you ever seen the rain, coming down on a sunny day?" was inspired by the band's feelings of unease and depression at the height of their fame and commercial success. The band would ultimately split in October 1972, following the release of the album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mardi Gras</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-11" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[11]</a>In a literal sense, the song describes a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshower" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sunshower</a>, such as in the lyric "It'll rain a sunny day" and the chorus, "Have you ever seen the rain, comin' down on a sunny day?" These events are particularly common in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_South" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Deep South</a> due to localized atmospheric wind shear effects.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-cleanenergy-12" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[12]</a><h2>Music video</h2>For the band's 50th anniversary in 2018, a music video was released for "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" The video stars then up-and-coming actors including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Quaid" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jack Quaid</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_Frolova" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sasha Frolova</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Moriarty_(actress)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Erin Moriarty</a>. Quaid and Moriarty would go on to star together in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_(TV_series)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Boys</a>. The video was shot in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Montana</a> by director Laurence Jacobs who described it as "a coming-of-age story" and "something distinctly real that encapsulated identity. Not teenage years, but specifically your early 20s when you're still growing and trying to become someone." The story, cowritten by Jacobs and Luke Klompien, is of "three best friends hanging in Montana until one of them moves away", and includes scenes of the cast "skipping rocks into the river", "driving through the countryside in a vintage red <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chevy</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_truck" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pickup truck</a> watching the sunset and bonding by the fire."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-13" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-14" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[14]</a> A behind-the-scenes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featurette" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">featurette</a> about the making of the video was released June 26, 2019, featuring interviews with the cast and director, and also shows dialogue between the actors.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F#cite_note-15" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[15]</a>