Escrita
por Paul Jabara e Pau Shaffer, foi gravada entre junho e agosto de 1982 e
lançada em 10 de setembro de 1982 em compacto. Sairia também no terceiro disco
da dupla, em janeiro de 1983, chamado Success. Foi produzida por Paul Jabara e
Bob Esty. Chegou ao número 46 do Billboard Hot 100. Chegou ao número 2 no Reino
Unido, número 5 na Irlanda, número 8 na Noruega, número 13 na Nova Zelandia,
número 16 na Australia, número 28 no Japão, número 31 na Holanda, número 43 na
Alemanha Ocidental e número 54 na França. VH1 elegeu-a como uma das 100 greatest
songs of the 1980s (posição 30). Paste Magazine disse que era a número 12 da
lista das 60 best dancefloor classics. Foi escrita em uma tarde de 1979, com
intenção de ser dada pra Donna Summers gravar. Acontece que Donna havia se
convertido em Born again Christian e disse que a canção era uma blasfêmia.
Então ofereceram a Diana Ross, Cher e Barbra Streisend. Todas recusaram. The
Weather Girls, Marth Wash e Izora Armstead também recusaram, mas foram
convencidas a gravar. Julia Waters-Tillman e Maxine Waters-Willard, Stephanie
Spruill e Zenobia Conkerite fizeram os backing vocals no refrão. Martha Wash
cantou a voz principal. Bob Esty tocou teclado e sintetizador. Greg Mathieson
tocou piano. Paul Delph tocou sintetizador. Lee Sklar tocou baixo. Michael
Landau tocou guitarra. Carlos Veja tocou bateria. Foi regravada por Martha Wash
e Ru Paul em 1997 e Geri Halliwell em 2001.
A
letra:
Hi (Hi!) We're your Weather Girls (Ah-huh)
And have we got news for you (You better listen)
Get ready, all you lonely girls
And leave those umbrellas at home (Alright!)
Humidity is rising (mmm rising)
Barometer's getting low (How low, girl?) (uh-oh)
According to all sources (What sources, now?)
The street's the place to go (We'd better hurry up)
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men! (Start raining men)
It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Amen!
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet!
It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Every specimen!
Tall, blonde, dark and lean
Rough and tough and strong and mean
God bless Mother Nature, she's a single woman too
She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do
She taught every angel and rearranged the sky
So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy
It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Amen!
It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Amen!
I feel stormy weather moving in
About to begin (about to begin)
Hear (hear) the (the) thun (thun) der (der)
Don't (don't) you (you) lose (lose) your (your) head!
Rip off the roof and stay in bed
(Rip off the roof and stay in bed!)
God bless Mother Nature, she's a single woman too
She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do
She taught every angel; she rearranged the sky
So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy
It's Raining Men! Yeah!
Humidity is rising (Humidity is rising)
Barometer's getting low (It's getting low low low low)
According to all sources (According to all sources)
The street's the place to go
'Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men!
It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Amen!
It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Amen!
It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Amen!
It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Amen!
(Tall, blonde, dark and lean)
(Rough and tough and strong and mean)
She taught every angel
She rearranged the sky
Hallelujah!
A
versão das Weather Girls:
A
versão de Martha Wash e Ru Paul:
A
versão de Geri Halliwell:
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