Stand a Little Rain
"Stand a Little Rain" | ||||
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Single by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | ||||
from the album Twenty Years of Dirt | ||||
B-side | "Miner's Night Out" | |||
Released | June 2, 1986 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:39 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. Nashville | |||
Songwriter(s) | Donny Lowery, Don Schlitz | |||
Producer(s) | Marshall Morgan, Paul Worley | |||
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band singles chronology | ||||
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"Stand a Little Rain" is a song written by Donny Lowery and Don Schlitz, and recorded by American country music group Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was released in June 1986 as the first single from their compilation album Twenty Years of Dirt. The song reached number 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and number 3 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.[1]
Critical reception
Kip Kirby, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that the band "delivers a slow, melancholy descant on the strengthening power of adversity." He goes on to call it a "change of pace from their whimsical, 'Partners, Brothers and Friends'.[2]
In popular culture
During April 1992, the song was the unwitting subject of one of George H. W. Bush's malapropisms when he referred to the group as the "Nitty Ditty, Nitty City Great" at a country music awards ceremony in Nashville:
- "I said to them, you know, there's another one that the Nitty Ditty, Nitty City Great -- [laughter] -- that they did, and it says, "If you want to see a rainbow, you've got to stand a little rain." We've had a little rain. New Hampshire has had too much rain. A lot of families are hurting."[3]
This unusual phrasing was repeatedly used as an example of Bush's garbled syntax (notably, in Dave Barry's book Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway), which in turn helped publicize the band.
Chart performance
"Stand a Little Rain" debuted at number 61 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of June 21, 1986.
Chart (1986) | Peak position |
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US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4] | 5 |
Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 3 |
References
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- The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- Ricochet
- Rare Junk
- Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy
- All the Good Times
- Stars & Stripes Forever
- Symphonion Dream
- The Dirt Band
- An American Dream
- Make a Little Magic
- Jealousy
- Let's Go
- Plain Dirt Fashion
- Partners, Brothers and Friends
- Hold On
- Workin' Band
- The Rest of the Dream
- Not Fade Away
- Acoustic
- The Christmas Album
- Bang, Bang, Bang
- Welcome to Woody Creek
- Speed of Life
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume III
- Alive
- Live Two Five
- "Mr. Bojangles"
- "House at Pooh Corner"
- "I Saw the Light"
- "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)"
- "The Battle of New Orleans"
- "All I Have to Do Is Dream"
- "An American Dream"
- "Dance Little Jean"
- "Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)"
- "I Love Only You"
- "High Horse"
- "Modern Day Romance"
- "Home Again in My Heart"
- "Partners, Brothers and Friends"
- "Fire in the Sky"
- "Baby's Got a Hold on Me"
- "Fishin' in the Dark"
- "Oh What a Love"
- "Workin' Man (Nowhere to Go)"
- "I've Been Lookin'"
- "Down That Road Tonight"
- "Turn of the Century"
- "And So It Goes"
- "When It's Gone"
- "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)"
- "I Fought the Law"
- "King Tut"
- "Joe Knows How to Live"
- "Bless the Broken Road"
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