Songoftheday 3/1/24 - It ticks just like a Timex it never lets up on you, who said life was easy the job is never through...

 

 

"Raining On Sunday" - Keith Urban

from the album Golden Road (2002)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #38 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 2

 

Today's song comes from Australian-American country music artist Keith Urban, who cracked the top-40 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 for the third time with the lead single from his Golden Road album "Somebody Like You" in the late autumn of 2002.  The second single from the record was "Raining On Sunday", written by Radney Foster and Darrell Brown, and originally recorded for Foster's 1999 album See What You Wanna See. The lyrics see the opposite side of a relationship that its predecessor, where lovers are there to rough out the trials of the week, and to "hide under the covers all afternoon" listening to the storms outside their haven. The production from Keith along with Dann Huff is smooth and understated until Urban gets his guitar solo, and the chord changes on the chorus flow quite nicely. The music video supplements the mood of the romantic song though his band being in the house with Keith and his love is a choice....

"Raining On Sunday" became the second top-40 crossover hit on Billboard's Hot 100 in May of 2003, while spending a week at #3 on the Country Songs airplay chart. 

Both Keith and the Golden Road album will be back to the series.

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Here's the original from Radney Foster from 1999...

and lastly, Urban, in concert...

Tomorrow I'll have my top hits of this week, the on Monday SOTD will be back with a faithful country band.