CBB - WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN cover Credence Clearwater Revival
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MIKE - chitarra acustica , voce , cori
ROBERTO - chitarra , cori
SANDRO - basso
CARLO - batteria
from album " COSMOS FACTORY" - 1970
"Who'll Stop the Rain" is a song written by John Fogerty and originally recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival for their 1970 album Cosmo's Factory. Backed by "Travelin' Band", it was one of three double-sided singles from that album to reach the top five on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and the first of two to reach number two on the US charts, along with "Lookin' Out My Back Door"/"Long As I Can See the Light". In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 188 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Lyrically, "Who'll Stop the Rain" is divided into three verses, with a historical, recent past, and present approach. All three lines allude to a sense of unending malaise, pondered by "good men through the ages," "five-year plans and new deals / wrapped in golden chains," and the Woodstock generation.
Musically, in contrast to the '50s rock-inspired "Travelin' Band," "Who'll Stop the Rain" has more of an acoustic, folk-rock feel. Like many folk-rock songs, it begins with a jangly acoustic guitar riff, although the backing has more of a roots-rock sound than heard on more standard folk-rock recordings. Interpreting the song in its period (1970) and the song's resigned yet somewhat angry sentiment, many see "Who'll Stop the Rain" as a thinly veiled protest against the Vietnam War, with the lyrics of the final verse and its references to music, large crowds, rain, and crowds trying to warm up being reminiscent of the band's experience at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969. For his part, when asked by Rolling Stone about the meaning of the song's lyrics, John Fogerty was quoted as saying:
"Of course, I was talking about Washington, D.C., when I wrote the song, but I remember taking the master version of the song home and playing it. My son Josh was four at the time, and after hearing it, he said, 'Daddy, stop the rain.' And my wife and I looked at each other and said, 'Well, not really.'"
In 2007, during a concert in Shelburne, Vermont, he said the following about song:"Well, this next song has a bit of a fairy tale about it. A lot of people seem to think I sang this song at Woodstock a long time ago. No. I was at Woodstock in 1969. I think so. It was a cool event. I'm a California boy. I went there and saw a lot of really nice kids. Hairy. Colorful. It started raining, and it got really muddy, and then half a million people took their clothes off! The Boomer generation making their presence felt, I think. Anyway, then I went home and wrote this song."
Billboard called it a "blockbuster side" that "has the pace and feel of [Creedence's] hits." Cash Box said it showcased Creedence's "original river-rock style." Record World called the single a "two-faced hit."
Ultimate Classic Rock critic Bryan Wawzenek ranked the lyrics to "Who'll Stop the Rain" as Fogerty's third-best, saying "He seems to think that efforts to fix widespread ills are futile, whether it's the intelligentsia, politicians or the Woodstock generation who are fixing things. It's Fogerty's most deftly written allegory."
In 1978, the song was used in the film Who'll Stop the Rain. The film starred Nick Nolte as a Vietnam veteran. It was originally going to be called Dog Soldiers, after the original novel, but when the producers obtained the rights to use the song, they changed the title to this. The song also appeared in the 1989 film Powwow Highway. Both the original song and a softer, slower cover version sung by Courtney Jaye are included on the soundtrack to December Boys. A clip of the song appears in the film The War. The song was also included in the film Philadelphia. In 1990, it was also used in a third-season episode of Tour Of Duty, an action-drama television series that followed the fortunes of a U.S. Army platoon during the Vietnam War. The song appears in Haruki Murakami's novel "Hear the Wind Sing", which was later made into a film. The song is also featured in the 2023 Netflix film We Have a Ghost, where Kevin plays it in an attempt to convince Ernest to materialize.
