Rain on the Roof
Betty Comden & Adolph Green * Track #5 On Follies in Concert
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Album Follies in Concert
- #1Overture
Paul Gemignani & New York Philharmonic
- #2Beautiful Girls
Arthur Rubin
- #3Don’t Look at Me
George Hearn & Barbara Cook
- #4Waiting for the Girls Upstairs
New York Philharmonic Concert Cast of Follies (1985)
- #5Rain on the Roof
Betty Comden & Adolph Green
- #6Ah, Paree!
Liliane Montevecchi
- #7Broadway Baby
Elaine Stritch
- #8The Road You Didn’t Take
George Hearn
- #9In Buddy’s Eyes
Barbara Cook
- #10Who’s That Woman?
Phyllis Newman
- #11I’m Still Here
Carol Burnett
- #12Too Many Mornings
George Hearn & Barbara Cook
- #13The Right Girl
Mandy Patinkin
- #14One More Kiss
Erie Mills & Licia Albanese
- #15Could I Leave You?
Lee Remick
- #16Loveland
Follies Ensemble (1985)
- #17You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow / Love Will See Us Through
Jim Walton, Liz Callaway, Howard McGillin, & Daisy Prince
- #18Buddy’s Blues
Mandy Patinkin
- #19Losing My Mind
Barbara Cook
- #20The Story of Lucy and Jessie
Lee Remick
- #21Live, Laugh, Love
George Hearn
- #22Finale: Waiting for the Girls Upstairs (Reprise) / Beautiful Girls (Reprise)
Follies Ensemble (1985)
Rain on the Roof by Betty Comden & Adolph Green
Performed by
Betty Comden & Adolph GreenProduced by
Thomas Z. ShepardWrited by
Stephen SondheimAbout
The guests, in a kind of Limbo, begin performing the songs that made them famous, unheard by the others at the party. The first to take the stage is an elderly singing-dancing couple, formerly known as the Whistling Whitmans. Their act had been popular in the years immediately following World War I....
Rain on the Roof Lyrics
[THE WHITMANS]
Listen to the rain on the roof go
Pit-pitty-pat
Pit-pitty-pat-pitty
Sit, kitty cat
We won't get home for hours
Relax and
Listen to the rain on the roof go
Plunk-planka-plink
Plunk-planka-plink-planka
Let's have a drink
And shelter from the showers
Rain, rain, don't go away
Fill up the sky
Rain through the night
We'll stay
Cozy and dry
Listen to the rain on the roof go
Pit-pitty-pat
(Kiss)
Plunk-a-plink
(Kiss)
Plank
(Kiss)
Pity that
It's not a hurricane
Listen plink to the
(Kiss Kiss)
Lovely rain
Rain on the Roof Q&A
Who wrote Rain on the Roof's ?
Rain on the Roof was written by Stephen Sondheim.
Who produced Rain on the Roof's ?
Rain on the Roof was produced by Thomas Z. Shepard.
What did Betty Comden & Adolph Green say about "Rain on the Roof"?
From Sondheim’s Finishing the Hat:
This pastiche doesn’t honor a specific lyricist or composer so much as a genre: the ‘novelty song’. Novelty songs were bouncy and catchy, often with a title which featured a repetitive gimmick (“When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along”) or heavy alliter...