Sweet Dreams Here Comes the Rain Again

1984 single by Eurythmics

"Here Comes the Pelting Again"
Unmarried past Eurythmics
from the album Impact
B-side	"Paint a Rumour"
Released	12 January 1984
Recorded	1983
Genre	New wave synth-pop
Length	4:54 (album version) 5:05 (single version) iv:43 (video version) iii:50 (7" promo version)
Label	RCA
Songwriter(south)	Annie Lennox David A. Stewart
Producer(south)	David A. Stewart
Eurythmics singles chronology
"Correct by Your Side" (1983) "Here Comes the Rain Again" (1984) "Sexcrime (Nineteen Lxxx-Four)" (1984)
Music video
"Here Comes the Pelting Once more" on YouTube

"Hither Comes the Rain Again" is a 1983 song past British duo Eurythmics and the opening rail from their third studio album Touch on. Information technology was written by grouping members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart and produced past Stewart. The vocal was released on 12 January 1984^[1] as the album's tertiary single in the United kingdom and in the United States as the kickoff unmarried. It became Eurythmics' second Top x U.Southward. hit, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Here Comes the Rain Again" hitting number eight in the UK Singles Chart, becoming their fifth consecutive Acme 10 single in their dwelling country.

Song information [edit]

Stewart explained to Songfacts that creating a melancholy mood in his songs is something at which he excels. He said: "'Here Comes the Rain Again' is kind of a perfect one where it has a mixture of things, considering I'm playing a b-minor, simply then I alter information technology to put a b-natural (sic – the song is in A minor) in, and so it kind of feels like that pocket-sized is suspended, or major. So information technology'due south kind of a weird course. And of grade that starts the whole vocal, and the whole song was about that undecided thing, like hither comes depression, or here comes that downward screw. But then it goes, 'then talk to me like lovers exercise.' Information technology's the wandering in and out of melancholy, a night beauty that sort of is similar the rose that'south when information technology'due south darkest unfolding and bloodred but before the garden, dies. And capturing that in kind of oblique statements and sentiments."^[two]

Stewart besides said he and Lennox wrote the song while staying at the Mayflower Hotel in New York Urban center. It was an overcast day, and Stewart was playing "melancholy A minor-ish chords with the B note in information technology" on his Casio keyboard. Lennox came over, looked out the window at the gray skies and the New York skyline, and spontaneously sang, "Here comes the pelting once more". The duo worked out the rest of the song based on that mood.^{[2] [3]}

The string arrangements by Michael Kamen were performed by members of the British Philharmonic Orchestra. All the same, due to the express infinite in the studio, the Church, the players had to improvise by recording their parts in other parts of the studio. The song was and so mixed by blending the orchestral tracks on elevation of the original synthesized bankroll track.^[2]

The running fourth dimension for "Here Comes the Rain Again" is in actuality about five minutes long and was edited on the Touch album (fading out at approximately four-and-a-one-half minutes). Although it was edited fifty-fifty further for its single and video release, many U.Southward. radio stations played the total-length version of it.^{[ commendation needed ]} The unabridged five-infinitesimal version did not announced on whatsoever Eurythmics album until the U.S. edition of Greatest Hits in 1991.

In the UK, the single became Eurythmics' 5th Acme 10 hit, peaking at #8. Information technology was the duo's second superlative ten striking in the U.s., peaking at #4 in March 1984.

Music video [edit]

The music video, featuring both Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, was directed by Stewart, Jonathan Gershfield and Jon Roseman,^[4] and released in December 1983, a month before the single came out. The video opens with a passing aeriform shot of the Old Homo of Hoy on the Isle of Hoy in the Orkney Islands before transitioning to Lennox walking along the rocky shore and cliff top. She later explores a derelict cottage while wearing a nightgown and belongings a lantern. Stewart stalks her with a video photographic camera. In many scenes the ii are filmed separately, then superimposed into the same frame.^[5]

Runway listings [edit]

7"

• A: "Here Comes The Rain Again" (vii" Edit) – 3:53
• B: "Paint A Rumour" (Long Version) – 8:00

12"

• A: "Here Comes The Pelting Over again" (Full Version)* – 5:05
• B1: "This City Never Sleeps" (Live Version, San Francisco '83) – five:30
• B2: "Paint A Rumour" (Long Version)* – 8:00

* both (Versions) are longer than the ones found on the Touch anthology

Other versions

• "Hither Comes The Rain Once again" (Freemasons Vocal Mix) – 7:17 / (2009)
• "Here Comes The Pelting Once more" (Freemasons Radio Edit) – four:41 / (2009)
• "Hither Comes The Rain Again (Disconet Extended Version) -6:57 / (1984)

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Personnel [edit]

Eurythmics

• Annie Lennox - vocals, keyboard
• Dave Stewart - guitar, keyboard

Additional personnel

• Michael Kamen - conductor
• British Combo - strings

Sampling [edit]

• The vocal's opening was used in the Belgium Dance act Oxy's 1992 single "The Feeling."^[32]
• George Nozuka sings the same note when he says "Talk to me" with a slight stutter on his hit unmarried, "Talk to Me". Another hit by Nozuka, "Final Night", features a riff that is inspired by "Sweet Dreams".^[32]
• The line "Talk to me" is interpolated in Alice Disk's song "Better Off Alone".^[32]
• The lyrics of the chorus were interpolated in the 1995 song "Tragedy" past RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan.^[32]
• The lyrics "Walk with me, like lovers do/Talk to me, like lovers do" were used in Platinum Weird's song "Taking Chances" which incidentally, was co-written by Stewart. "Taking Chances" was later covered by Celine Dion and released as the title runway of her 2007 album.^[33]
• The lyrics of the chorus were sampled in Jamaican singer's Nadirah X song "Here Information technology Comes" in 2010 on her debut album Ink.^[32]
• Madonna sampled the song on her Sticky & Sweetness Tour in 2008–2009 with her own vocal Pelting equally a video interlude.^[32]

References [edit]

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24. ^ "Greenbacks Box Acme 100 Singles – Calendar week ending April 14, 1984". Cash Box . Retrieved 3 June 2020.
25. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Eurythmics – Here Comes the Pelting Once again". GfK Entertainment charts.
26. ^ "Meridian 100 Singles of 1984". RPM. Vol. 41, no. 17. 5 January 1985. p. 7. ISSN 0315-5994. Retrieved 2 June 2020 – via Library and Archives Canada.
27. ^ "Hot 100 Songs – Year-Terminate 1984". Billboard. 2 January 2013. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020. Retrieved two June 2020.
28. ^ "Dance Club Songs – Year-End 1984". Billboard . Retrieved 2 June 2020.
29. ^ "The Cash Box Year-Cease Charts: 1984 – Meridian 100 Pop Singles". Cash Box. 29 December 1984. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
30. ^ "Canadian unmarried certifications – Eurythmics – Here Comes the Pelting Over again". Music Canada. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
31. ^ "British single certifications – Eurythmics – Here Comes the Rain Once more". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved viii February 2022.
32. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "Here Comes the Rain Once again past Eurythmics on WhoSampled". WhoSampled . Retrieved five March 2022.
33. ^ Wiser, Carl (20 Nov 2008). "Dave Stewart of Eurythmics : Songwriter Interviews". Songfacts . Retrieved 5 March 2022.

External links [edit]

• Music video on YouTube

manigaultresere.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Rain_Again

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