The Cascades, Chopin, Grace Jones and John Fogerty on rain.

After a short break, the rain that was the City's companion for the past four days has returned. One of my Facebook friends commented a couple of days ago that she was "listening to the rain." This prompted me to reply with a link to a pop chestnut from my senior year of high school, done by a group, the Cascades, who got started in the Navy, were named for a laundry detergent and, at the time this song was recorded, had Glen Campbell on guitar (clip by ksabond):



Another of my friend's friends remarked that Chopin wrote a piano piece inspired by listening to rain. Yet another friend identified it as Prelude No. 15 in D-flat major, opus 28. Here it is, played by the Chilean pianist Alfredo Perl (clip by TheGreatPerformers; TGP's commentary--double-click on the start arrow to read it while listening--includes a long quotation from Chopin's lover, the novelist George Sand (Aurore Dupuis), describing the circumstances under which the piece was written):



My friend responded with this Grace Jones number (clip by v1rtu050):



As the rain continues its seemingly endless plinking on my air conditioner, I can only think of this Creedence hit from my law school years, here in a post-Creedence version by John Fogerty (clip by masigon):

Attila, lord of all he surveys.

Still, his sister got there first.

(Posted in response to my mother-in-law's request for more cat pix.)