What Have They Done to the Rain

"What Have They Done To The Rain"
Single by The Searchers
B-side"This Feeling Inside"
ReleasedNovember 1964 (UK); January 1965 (US)
GenrePop
Length2:33
LabelPye 7N15739 (UK)
Kapp 644 (USA)
Songwriter(s)Malvina Reynolds
The Searchers singles chronology
"When You Walk in the Room"
(1964)
"What Have They Done To The Rain"
(1964)
"Goodbye My Love"
(1965)

"What Have They Done to the Rain" is a protest song against above-ground nuclear testing written by Malvina Reynolds. The song has been sung by many singers such as Joan Baez, and a version by the English band The Searchers was released as a single, which charted in the US and UK.