Rain on Your Parade

Album: Rockferry: Deluxe Edition (2008)
Charted: 15
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Songfacts®:

  • Duffy wrote this Motown sounding stomper in the summer of 2008. It was included as one of the new songs on the Deluxe edition of the Welsh singer's Rockferry album.
  • After discussing with the Western Mail how she has had to learn to be strong and stand up for herself since becoming famous, Duffy told the interviewer that in this song, "You might see a little bit of the woman that won't take any s--t."
  • Sophie Muller directed the Chicago-ish music video for this song. She had previously helmed Duffy's promo for "Stepping Stone."

Comments: 1

  • Jan Cornelissen from BelgiumThe first line "I wish you well" has the same melody as "I lost my heart" as sung by PJ Harvey in "Down by the water" of 1995. And this melody line is roughly similar to "I met my love" as sung by the Pogues in "Dirty Old Town". This song was written by Ewan McColl who took inspiration from old Gaelic folk songs, so it's no wonder that this melody also migrated to the States where it appeared in numerous so-called cowboy-songs as well as in "Wayfaring stranger" as sung by Johnny Cash. A lot more information can be found on the internet site of "Honeysuckle Roads". I discovered this site because I was actively searching for a link between "Dirty Old Town" and "Wayfaring Stranger".
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