Sound of Sunshine - I Do All My Crying in the Rain

This is one hard to find song used in the movie "The Assassination of Richard Nixon". I really don't know the melody of this music and I hardly noticed on what part of the movie the music was played. A co-member, Mel, in a Music Collectors forum asked for the title and the artist of this song. She remembered just the first two lines of the song and she has posted and searched for it on other sites but she was always given the song by the Everly Brothers - Crying in the Rain. According to her it was sung by a group sounding like The Lettermen.

I tried searching for the song until I stumbled on yahoo answers site. I've searched for the song from Youtube but I only got a song by Sounds of Sunshine - Love Means You Never Have To Say You're Sorry, which when I heard really sounded like The Lettermen. I've tried searching for a copy, at least a sample of the song but I didn't find any. I've posted the information I've gathered on the forum anyway, at least we have a lead on the title and the artist of this song.

Last night I've tried searching again and I stumbled on en.allexperts.com, one of the sites where Mel posted her query of this song. Lou Simon provided a phone number of the recording studio of the Wilder Brothers, who sang the song, in Los Angeles. I immediately asked a favor from a friend based in California to call the number for me and inquire about the song. He was able to contact the number but he was told that the song was sung by The Beach Boys. He said that the receptionist sounded young and doesn't seem to know the song.

The long search has ended tonight, I've finally grab hold of a copy of this song, shared by a co-member, Wilbert,  who is a certified vinyl collector, ripped from his 45 rpm vinyl. It is such a beautiful song that I repeatedly listened to it as I write this blog ... down below is a youtube video of the song from his own youtube channel. Thank you so much Kuya Wilbert. :)

I do all my crying in the rain

When no one knows my teardrops from the rain

They think I've forgotten you

They don't know what I go throughhhh

I do all my crying in the rain

When no one knows how much I feel the pain

Just like any men I've got my pride

I keep all the hurt inside

I'm the great pretender and I put on quite a show

I fooled everyone but me

'cause i still love you so oh oh

I do all my crying in the rain

But teardrops just won't bring her back again

Raindrops won't you set me free

Sunshine bring her back to me

I'm the great pretender and I put on quite a show

I fooled everyone but me

'cause I still love you so oh oh

I do all my crying in the rain

But teardrops just won't bring her back again

Raindrops won't you set me free

Sunshine bring her back to me

(fading)

Da ra da ra ra ra da da da ra ra ra

Raindrops won't you set me free

John Legend Ordinary People

Ordinary People, Extra-Ordinary Music

For the last four (4) years I have been addicted to downloading music files. It all started when an online buddy asked me to search for a song with some lyrics that goes something like this "take it slow, take it slow, oohhh". He said he's not sure if the title of the song was "Take It Slow" and added that he just heard it being streamed over Home Radio. I was challenged, I tuned in to the said radio station for about two weeks hoping to hear the lyrics on every song played until one day, while working at my internet shop and listening to the radio, I heard a song played with some of the lyrics so I noted down some more of it and then searched it on Google, results returned for "Ordinary People" as the title and John Legend as the artist. Immediately, I searched for the song from Limewire and a lot of results returned. Excited as I was, I waited for my online buddy to come online, and as soon as he did I told him at once that I got the song, sent it to him and he was very delighted. How I felt back then was, not only did I make someone away from his family happy but it was like I have solved a puzzle.

From then on, I was always eager to search and download more songs for him even if he only provided part of the lyrics or just a title or a title and the artist and the year the song was released. And there was a time when I cannot find the song with the lyrics that he gave me, I asked him to sing the song so I can compare it to the song that I thought was the one he’s looking for. And when I heard him sing part of the lyrics, even when he sounded like he’s drunk (hahaha!), I told him yes, I have found the song. Though it was just a sample song I’ve got from www.allmusic.com at least I was certain of the title and the artist, it was Michelle Philips’ No Love Today. Again, I searched for it from Limewire and I was fortunate to get only one result and it was active so I was able to download it.

It was all fun and the fact that most of the songs that he asked me to look for were actually songs that have been part of my childhood, songs that I’ve heard when I was growing up, songs that has brought so many memories, songs that I was not aware of the title and the artist yet when I heard them I was just ecstatic to say Yes! I know these songs. There were songs that were really easy to find but there were some that took me months and even years before I found them. And as I looked for these hard to find songs, I came across this forum, whose thread title was “Looking for Hard to Find Songs”, where I have found copies of the songs that I have been looking for so long.

The best part of all these song searching was I also found new friends. Friends who are very generous to share their collection of songs ripped from their own collection of vinyls and cd’s. Friends whom I think are not only friends in music but also friends in the true meaning of it. I am proud of these people that comprise this H2F-TMC family and am so glad to be part of it.

We may just be ORDINARY PEOPLE but we do share EXTRA-ORDINARY MUSIC.

John Legend - Ordinary People

Michelle Philips - No Love today