Have You Ever Seen the Rain?

For the Stanley Turrentine album, see Have You Ever Seen the Rain (album).
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain"
Single by Creedence Clearwater Revival
from the album Pendulum
B-side"Hey Tonight"
ReleasedJanuary 1971
Recorded1970
Genre
Length2:39
LabelFantasy
Songwriter(s)John Fogerty
Producer(s)John Fogerty
Creedence Clearwater Revival singles chronology
"Lookin' Out My Back Door"
(1970) 		"Have You Ever Seen the Rain"
(1971) 		"Sweet Hitch-Hiker"
(1971)
Music video
"Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain (Official)" on YouTube

"Have You Ever Seen the Rain" is a song by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, written by John Fogerty and released as a single in 1971 from the album Pendulum (1970). The song charted highest in Canada, reaching number one on the RPM 100 national singles chart in March 1971.[3] In the U.S., in the same year it peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[4] On the Cash Box pop chart, it peaked at number three. In the UK, it reached number 36. It was the group's eighth gold-selling single.[5] In March 2023, the song surpassed one billion streams on Spotify.[6]

Cash Box called the song "as close to a ballad as anything from CCR."[7]

Fogerty released a live version of the song on his The Long Road Home - In Concert DVD which was recorded at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on September 15, 2005. A music video was released for the band's 50th anniversary on December 11, 2018.

On the 2013 John Fogerty album Wrote a Song for Everyone a new recording of the song featuring Alan Jackson was included.[8]

  1. ^ "Creedence Clearwater Revival 50th Anniversary". 26 February 2021.
  2. ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (October 15, 1996). "Revoluncheon: Late Sixties Continued". Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 11. ISBN 031214704X.
  3. ^ "Item: 2736 – Library and Archives Canada". Library and Archives Canada. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
    "Item: 2795 – Library and Archives Canada". Library and Archives Canada. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
  4. ^ "Creedence Clearwater Revival – Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  5. ^ Chronicle, Vol. 1 Liner notes
  6. ^ "Creedence Clearwater Revival". Spotify.
  7. ^ "CashBox Singles Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. January 23, 1971. p. 22. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  8. ^ "Wrote a Song for Everyone - John Fogerty | Album | AllMusic". AllMusic.