It's been raining all day here in Nashville, and this song has been running through my head since getting drenched on my early morning trail run. One would be hard pressed to find a vocal performance as emotive as David Ruffin's on the song I Wish It Would Rain, the title track on The Temptations' 1967 Motown album. Lyricist Roger Penzabene penned the words after finding out that his wife was cheating on him and he tragically committed suicide a week after the single was released. Backed by a subdued rhythm track (courtesy of The Funk Brothers), Ruffin sings as if Penzabene's heartbreak and loneliness are his own, ultimately delivering one of the most melancholic songs of the Temptations repertoire. Ruffin sings that a "man ain't supposed to cry". Listen and try not to.

PS Our sister site Newstalgia has for its Backstage Weekend offering - Jesus and Mary Chain Live at the Electric Ballroom in London, 1988

Save for a Rainy Day
	Artist: Jan & Dean

This Jan & Dean single from 1966 suprisingly never went anywhere on the charts. What songs do you think should have been hits but never got there?

Good Bad Boy from his latest CD, Rain

There are times that I really dread trying to come up with the music posts. Taste in music is so subjective and you guys can be really brutal in letting us know what you think.

But after I read SilentPatriot's post on Katrina, I knew exactly what song to feature.

Here's the birthday boy, Aaron Neville, singing Randy Newman's Louisiana 1927

From the notes of the YouTube video:

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Covered in Rain

The original incarnation of the Mahavishnu orchestra was one of the premier and most influential fusion bands of the early ’70’s. Based on the flaming guitar work of John McLaughlin (who had worked with Miles Davis and The Tony Williams Lifetime previously), keyboardist Jan Hammer (of Miami Vice fame), violinist Jerry Goodman, Rick Laird on bass, and the incomparable Billy Cobham on drums.

Dance of Maya

Also the Youtube of "You know, You know"

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