"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 26 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.[1]

"Rainy Day People"
Single by Gordon Lightfoot
from the album Cold on the Shoulder
B-side"Cherokee Bend"
ReleasedMarch 1975
GenreFolk
Length2:48
LabelReprise
Songwriter(s)Gordon Lightfoot
Producer(s)Lenny Waronker
Gordon Lightfoot singles chronology
"Carefree Highway"
(1974)
"Rainy Day People"
(1975)
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
(1976)

Personnel

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Chart performance

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Chart (1975) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Top Singles 10
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 26
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 47

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 146.