(The sounds of rain falling)

It’s night time in the big city

Rain is falling, fog rolls in from the waterfront

A night shift nurse smokes the last cigarette in a pack

“Curious about what the weather looks like? Just look out your window, take a walk outside.”

The Singers and Songs

“Alright now, goin’ out west where I belong, get away from the G-Rind.”

Dean Martin: I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine

The Prisonaires: Just Walking in the Rain

The Consolers: After the Clouds Roll Away

“Brother Sullivan Pugh on guitar and his wife, Lola”

“Slim wrote a bunch of his songs with his wife, Lavelle…boy, wish I had a wife like that t’ help me write songs.”

Lord Beginner: Jamaica Beginner

Fats Domino: Let the Four Winds Blow

The Spaniels: Stormy Weather

“The Spaniels were on that ill fated tour, which means probably I saw them. Winter Dance Party, 1959, the day that music supposedly died.”

Stevie Wonder: A Place in the Sun

Frank Sinatra: Summer Wind

“West coast weather is the weather of catastrophe. The Santa Ana winds are like the winds of the apocalypse. But the summer wind that Frank’s singing about may be a little lighter. Come on in, Frank.”

The Staple Singers: Uncloudy Day

The Carter Family: Keep on the Sunny Side

Read Fred Bal’s Annotations of this episode on the DreamTime Blog.

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