She'd Rather Have the Rain
Written by Terry Cashman and Tommy West
Can't get her out of my mind, I see her face wherever I go
She didn't say it but I know she doesn't love me
I thought that I was king, she didn't want to play my game
If I had the sun to give her in the morning
She'd rather have the rain
Than anything I could give her
I'd give her anything that you care to name
She'd rather have the rain
Today I had to realize that every dream just can't come true
I know there's nothing I can do to make her want me
I could take the sun from heaven, tie it to a silver chain
Bring it so it shines upon her through the morning
She'd rather have the rain
Than anything I could give her
I'd give her anything that you care to name
She'd rather have the rain
When you need somebody, you want to give her everything
But it hurts when she doesn't hear the song that you sing
She'd rather have the rain
Than anything I could give her
I'd give her anything that you care to name
She'd rather have the rain
She'd rather have the rain
Than anything I could give her
I'd give her anything that you care to name
She'd rather have the rain
Rather have the rain, rather have the rain, rather have the rain
As David explains in the following excerpt from the book “C’mon Get Happy…Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus” by David Cassidy & Chip Deffaa, his voice on the first two of The Partridge Family records, his voice was altered.
“Wes had some problem with the way I naturally sounded. He had me double-track vocals (the way Neil Sedaka had so often done) to give my voice added pop-ness. And by altering the tape speed, he was able to raise the pitch of my voice a half-tone above what it actually was, so that on records I sounded a little younger, lighter than in real life.”
The following two recordings highlight this. The first recording is a small part of the original recording from 1971 LP “Up To Date”. The second recording has been provided by John Gomolka who altered the original track to better reflect David’s true voice.
"She'd Rather Have The Rain" - Part of original recording
"She'd Rather Have The Rain" - altered to reflect David’s true voice.
From: Up To Date, At Home With Their Greatest Hits, The World of the Partridge Family
