I sang this song over and over again to my baby sister when she was sick with the whooping cough! I guess she was about 18 months old, and I was 9 years old. I carried her and walked up and down the hallway, into my bedroom, and back to hall way, singing, and singing, to calm her down. Oh, what sweet memories! If I had a hammer too! Wish I could remember the other songs I sang to her while she was sick.
@pt68picaso Жыл бұрын
Beth, your sister's name isn't Beth by any chance?
@christopherkuechmann97743 жыл бұрын
I first heard this song 56 plus years ago. Have always loved it. Brings back wonderful memories as I am now 71 years old.
@johnrodriguez6185 Жыл бұрын
I liked the song as a youngster .I still like it today.
@Kevin_Lurette10 ай бұрын
May Matthew Perry rest in peace. Have started his book and have cried three times already
@roosje489 ай бұрын
Me too
@felicitycreatesitall3 ай бұрын
Same!
@BeautifulGirl735 Жыл бұрын
Here because of Matthew Perry :)
@terrihall3402 Жыл бұрын
Me too!
@danetterivera10 ай бұрын
Lost Matty yesterday…lost a friend 😢
@stephensoldner10 ай бұрын
same here!
@edgarmanuelluzuriagabricen474510 ай бұрын
Me too
@monaturrell999210 ай бұрын
Same
@pangaea90 Жыл бұрын
I remember this song from Captain Kangaroo when I was 5 years old. I'm 62 years old now and I still remember and love song. Memories
@tonylaspina34199 жыл бұрын
This was a GREAT SONG! back in the 60's. Wow! And, it's just as good today as it was in the 60s.
@slimeysatisfies8818 ай бұрын
Wish all foreigners would leave and so all the tech co's and return MY USA YO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
@charlesscatola54885 жыл бұрын
The crackling in the beginning brings back memories of listening to this on 45 RPM record. Loved this song back then, and still enjoy it now.
@LordCyberaxx5 жыл бұрын
This song makes me think that this is how it feels to be old.
@stevek69213 жыл бұрын
My folks had this album when I was a wee lad. Some of the lyrics still echo in my head, which is why I'm here. Thank you for putting this up!
@jawnmj Жыл бұрын
Don’t have the vinyl anymore, was given to me by my late dad, with other vinyl. I used to listen to this one a lot as an 11yr old, mid 80’s. Ty for this vinyl memory.
@lisamurray30793 жыл бұрын
Dont let the rain come down was such a calming tune to me...
@yappygm74333 жыл бұрын
I just love the sound of a vinyl recording.
@nicholasroberts69543 жыл бұрын
Instant recognition on hearing the tune - my childhood in the 60s - the greatest decade.
@nadnee40415 жыл бұрын
just heard this song on a folk music show, (NPR of course), and had flash back memories of it playing on the radio when I was only 3 years old. funny how some songs just stick in your memory. Great song.
@alanstrong55Ай бұрын
Love that tune. Ah ah!
@lainekaye74957 жыл бұрын
My mother used to sing this song when I was little. I had forgotten that it existed until I heard it playing in the background of a scene in Supernatural.
@dianeolsen19938 жыл бұрын
3 Little granddaughters and a silly Grandma thank you for this!!! Have fun - dance, sing, be silly!!!
@judedavis-goff7023 Жыл бұрын
Another silly grandma singing this as a true story..coz my roof has a hole in it😂
@alanstrong32953 жыл бұрын
Heard this on KWWL radio 1330 Waterloo, IA back in '64.
@andrewjwheelerjrwheeler44758 жыл бұрын
Folk singers rock I love this song.
@joshdance9959 Жыл бұрын
Folk singers DON'T rock.
@tigerland509 жыл бұрын
very pleased to find this droll old song i loved singing and still do
@dougmontgomery18686 жыл бұрын
This song was played on the air in Spring 1964. We lived in an old house in Hermosa Beach, California, at the time, and there was some rain that season; but no problems with a leaky roof. I now live in a mobile home some five miles or so away in Gardena and we have problems with the roof leaking at the rare times we have rain in Southern California.
@bmlgordon2 жыл бұрын
You know it never rains in Southern California.
@nonstopdoowop111 жыл бұрын
it's raining very hard and there are power failures ..so this song popped into my head, because I am positively prehistoric.
@tessamcleaund9071 Жыл бұрын
Love the video and song. Used to sing it to my little brother during thunder storms then my own kids
@virginiasemple55534 жыл бұрын
This song brought back happy memories! Thank you!
@richardskola35709 жыл бұрын
They sound as good as ever.. Sad that fun music has disappeared.
@johndii21947 жыл бұрын
disappeared? I just heard it.
@Labaron264 жыл бұрын
Music of today is Noise, Not Real Music.
@drinking63144 жыл бұрын
We're all doomed
@katemidddletonisawesome Жыл бұрын
Yes, the oldies from the 50s, 60s, and 70s need to make a comeback. Modern music is not that good. Rap and hip-hop are my least favorite genres, by the way. Silly lyrics and percussive beats... Yuk to the umpteen-zillionth degree. Yes, the oldies from 50s, 60s, and 70s need to have a resurgence. (BTW I'm Gen X but I'm old fashioned about the arts. Especially music!)
@katemidddletonisawesome Жыл бұрын
@@Labaron26 thank you so much for understanding how I feel. The other day a new friend asked me if I'm a "Swifty" and I said no way in a zillion years, I'm an oldies fan!
@tracynation2820Ай бұрын
Super. 💙 T.E.N.
@markmccummins80493 жыл бұрын
A great memory of my mum, and Captain Kangaroo.
@user-wi6sh6vh8u5 ай бұрын
Apparently.
@giggiddy4 ай бұрын
@@user-wi6sh6vh8uwhat kind of comment is that?
@giggiddy4 ай бұрын
@@user-wi6sh6vh8ujust to let you know. You accomplished your goal of posting the stupidest comment on here. Appearantly
@Betsilou Жыл бұрын
As I was exiting my sunroom during a heavy rain, I noticed the there was a leak in the ceiling. The first thing I thought of was this song. thanks for posting
@keithwebb90053 жыл бұрын
Wow I remember that one growing up.
@lonicarpenter3378 Жыл бұрын
Love this ❤️ I almost forgot this song we use to sing this in grade school ❤️❤️❤️
@carolynkunkle71397 жыл бұрын
Sure does bring back a lot of memories. thanks!
@kellycombs42083 жыл бұрын
Another great one? I smell blossoms but the trees are bare. I hear music, but there's no one there... Ya don't Need analizin...
@halearly37495 жыл бұрын
Was on YT the other day and one of those silly little things shows up - Name songs that have precipitation in the title. I did not use this song but it came to mind a few days later. I have not heard this tune for a long time. Glad that someone posted it . . . . . Thank you!!!!!
@garyvandecar25803 жыл бұрын
1964 Don't Let The Rain Come Down ( Crooked Little Man ) By the Serendipity Singers an American Folk Group that originated at the University of Colorado back in the early 1960's.
@scottreplogle256811 жыл бұрын
One of the best of 50 RAIN songs to celebrate the Colorado flooding of '13
@watcherwlc536 жыл бұрын
Even though recorded just a little before my time, this rendition was one of my childhood favorites. My grandparents had a copy and played it often.
@melinalack62245 жыл бұрын
This needs to be in the next Guardians of the Galaxy movie!!!
@G8GT364CI2 жыл бұрын
I remember from when I was a kid, was a hit at the same time as The Beatles hit in the U.S. in early 1964. I was 11.
@colleenknapp8626 Жыл бұрын
😊 I was 5 and it took me 55 years to learn the group's name. I remember watching The Beatles on Ed Sullivan... At that time, I had a sister 15, a sister 13 and a brother 11. 😊 We listened to all the best songs. And they still are! 😂
@otravez39169 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this upload. Love it. Wish the world hadn't moved on, but, alas, it has.
@katemidddletonisawesome Жыл бұрын
I also wish the world hadn't moved on. BTW I'm Gen X but I prefer the oldies anyway.
@JLHunter614 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, I used to listen to this and many other songs on my dad's two Sony reel-to-reel tape players that he got while he was in Okinawa in the early 60s. He had quite an eclectic collection of tapes: Nat King Cole, Mitch Miller, Frank Sinatra, Andy Rodger Miller, and many many others, but my favorite by far was always the album The Serendipity Singers, which, naturally, included this song. I was only about three or four years old and I just loved it. I was just thinking about my mom and dad who have now both passed, and specifically thought about this song immediately, so I came to KZbin to search for it and was not disappointed. Thank you so much for posting this song, it was a rare treat to hear a song that I probably hadn't even thought about for over forty or more years, even though it was such a large part of my early years growing up. Thanks for playing it for me mom! I could never have queued up that tape myself at that young age. And now I'm left with the memories.
@pt68picaso Жыл бұрын
Ace H -- check out the Don't Let the Rain Come Down pantomimes that others make to coinside with lyrics. There's families with friends acting it out.
@jeanninecallan6079Ай бұрын
Singing it to today the roof inspector put a shingle over it today for me ! They got my business 😅.
@PerplexiaX11 жыл бұрын
My sis had this album, so, needless to say, one of the many songs I grew up with. Thank you so much for posting this wonderful little tune. Definitely bookmarking this.
@windymoore400910 жыл бұрын
Love that song! Had it years ago on a 45 record. The video was awesome. Fit the song perfectly. Thanks so much for posting.
@janika12088 жыл бұрын
I love love love this song
@lisamcdonald10149 ай бұрын
Don’t Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)
@onines13 жыл бұрын
This was written in reference to the Village of Lavenham, Suffolk, UK. The workers weren't stupid or shoddy, they were using wood salvaged from ship wrecks from the North Sea.
@markburnett75006 жыл бұрын
1st time i heard this song was on Captain Kangaroo oh soooo many years ago! Bless you for posting,wonderful memory. :)
@kennethrojas84694 жыл бұрын
Dear Mark: I remember watching that episode of Captain Kangaroo. Weren't those the days, buddy?
@markmccummins80493 жыл бұрын
@Servant Ron I, too, remember it on Captain Kangaroo! In fact, my mum sang it with him, and I learned the song. Whenever it was on the radio, mum and I would sing along.
@JonSchappell2 жыл бұрын
Yes! That's where I heard it first too.
@pt68picaso Жыл бұрын
Captain Kangaroo, that brings back memories to GenX / late baby boomers!😊
@luvmyrecords Жыл бұрын
Me, too!
@kellycombs42083 жыл бұрын
4 PT harmony... Lead singer...its a good experience.
@pt68picaso Жыл бұрын
2:43 5 seconds on repeat is nice.🎉
@thesquareroute6650 Жыл бұрын
I heard this song in the early seventies on "Kookla Fran and Ollie!!!
@user-wi6sh6vh8u5 ай бұрын
Then why did they get cancelled in 1955?
@Earthgal0639 ай бұрын
😊Sweet childhood memories of safe and happy times
@stevevilinsky74644 жыл бұрын
GREAT SONG FROM THE EARLY SPRING OF 1964, THE BEGINNING OF THE BRITISH INVASION. THE SONG WAS WRITTEN BY ERSEL HICKEY, WHO BACK IN 1958 HAD THE HIT, "BLUE BIRDS OVER THE MOUNTAIN.
@shirleyjennings57873 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!
@Kharkovkid6 жыл бұрын
55 years gone....and so am I....
@joshuamendlsohn443011 жыл бұрын
I love it. Brings back memories. thanks :)
@frankiereinares8892 Жыл бұрын
in my playlist.great 60's sound.
@kimkochel67542 жыл бұрын
Nothing better than a rain storm on a tin roof.
@sidemoorefreeport12 жыл бұрын
i remember my mum singing this when I was little, thanks for posting
@larrygibson485910 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed it. Brought back a lot of good memories. Good video, too!
@TralfazConstruction Жыл бұрын
The toast of very early-'70s adult contemporary listening on early FM radio. That sound! 1:30
@fossilsue8 жыл бұрын
I love this!!
@kevindavis2217 Жыл бұрын
Used to listen to this with my granny
@Usr.lennox4 жыл бұрын
My baby nephew who’s 2 years old sang this it was so funny
@user-wi6sh6vh8u5 ай бұрын
Just a good song, and no talk about MP under the circumstances.
@gillian46836 жыл бұрын
okay so i feel like I've heard this song once in my entire life (and not recently) and all of a sudden when i woke up this morning i felt like it had just been playing. like it was in my dream or something idk. but i vividly remember hearing it. i don't know why.
@gillian46836 жыл бұрын
but only the very beginning
@gillian46833 жыл бұрын
@Raider Ron no I actually realized about a year ago that it was playing in the background of an episode of supernatural that I watched the night before lmao
@pt68picaso Жыл бұрын
Also, you might had heard this if you fell asleep with the TV on late one night stations filling with infomercials by TIME Life music or music from the '60's by TIME Life.
@91Kingscrib8411 жыл бұрын
Disappointed that a song we used to sing when i was a kid, is'unavailable to mobile devices'. Time to get into the 21st. Century!
@straightface60 Жыл бұрын
I remember this song believe it or not it was added to Columbia records movie soundtrack album for Mary Popins . My dad brought it home from RCA in Camden NJ
@alanstrong552 жыл бұрын
Heard that tune on KWWL 1330 Waterloo, IOWA in the summer of '64.
@clintonearlwalker9 жыл бұрын
It's raining, reminded me of this one.
@kevinfan72610 ай бұрын
John Bennett Perry was part of this group. He is the father of Matthew Perry.
@user-wi6sh6vh8u5 ай бұрын
Too bad that his son wasn’t smart enough to avoid the casting call for the sitcom “FRIENDS”, otherwise he would have learned a few good lessons.
@kerryschlegel13176 жыл бұрын
This group is kool!
@aboyer8544 жыл бұрын
Just heard this on a Supernatural episode from 2016.
@stevevilinsky74644 жыл бұрын
TO GARY VAN DECAR ,NO, GUY MITCHELL DID NOT WRITE " SINGING THE BLUES ". A FELLOW FROM ARKANSAS BY THE NAME OF MELVIN ENDSLEY PENNED IT AND HE ALSO PENNED THE SONG " I LIKE YOUR KIND OF LOVE " FOR ANDY WILLIAMS IN THE SPRING OF 1957.
@garyvandecar25803 жыл бұрын
I've never said that Guy Mitchell ever wrote Singing The Blues, He just recorded it back in 1956 Guy Mitchell was never a song writer just had the god given voice.
@RevrnDale11 жыл бұрын
Cute Song !
@user-wr1hy2pg2d11 ай бұрын
This Song is so silly, LOVE IT!
@surferpam110 ай бұрын
John Bennett Perry, lead singer of this group, was father to the late Matthew Perry.
@user-wi6sh6vh8u5 ай бұрын
So what?
@sauquoit1345612 жыл бұрын
On this date in 1964 {Feb. 29th} "Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)" entered Billboard's Top 100 chart; eventually it would peaked at #6 and spent 14 weeks in the Top 100... Ranked 32nd on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 Singles of 1964 chart... Was based on an English nursery rhyme; "There Was A Crooked Man"... The group formed at the University of Colorado; and had nine members...
@wasabe5913 жыл бұрын
I remember it well! 😊💜
@richardpaczynski54868 ай бұрын
Many thanks to whomever posted this. Just finished listening to Matthew Perry’s memoir, and couldn’t help myself. What a beautiful piece of ‘60s folk. “Don’t let the rain come down”, said Puff the Magic Dragon. “I’ve got got a smile cookin’, and don’t want to frown”.
@user-wi6sh6vh8u5 ай бұрын
Good grief.
@artshere1002 жыл бұрын
I am a crooked old guy who is a super of a crooked house and one of the tenants has a hole in her roof so I told her I will fix it and sent her this video to put a smile on her face while she waits ☔
@OtterGirli6 жыл бұрын
;-) I thought it was Peter, Paul and Mary. I was just just singing it lol
@rachaelmishka84468 ай бұрын
Also here because of Matthew Perry❤️
@user-wi6sh6vh8u5 ай бұрын
That figures.
@rebeccaplumlee960111 ай бұрын
My dad came in & was trying to remember this ditty
@penty264 Жыл бұрын
Now I need to go watch A Mighty Wind....😂😂
@elmatheron4301 Жыл бұрын
Love your music
@simonmoves14 жыл бұрын
excellent job on this clip--havent heard this for a while--5*****
@marilyncarrier2 жыл бұрын
Such a fun song.
@PhillipCreeper8 жыл бұрын
FANTASTIC!
@patrickdocherty44395 жыл бұрын
A SONG FOR TODAY LONG STORY
@stocktonperry61726 жыл бұрын
listening to this while uh, its raining and hailing and
@stocktonperry61726 жыл бұрын
thunder and lighning
@davidcole5183 Жыл бұрын
I may be sending this song to the individual who designed our new house. Maybe it will get him off the dime.
@AfroDeesiac6 ай бұрын
Captain Kangaroo played this song on his show back in the late 1960's.
@timmyj7092 Жыл бұрын
I feel crooked right now.
@Xanatos218 жыл бұрын
"Supernatural" brought me here.
@magnusskata81965 жыл бұрын
#MeToo
@raintolley32294 жыл бұрын
@@magnusskata8196 me too lmaoooo
@CeciliaEG4 жыл бұрын
Same xD
@imjustfckingflossing62544 жыл бұрын
Cheer!
@richard686910 ай бұрын
Matthew Perry's book, anyone?
@katemidddletonisawesome Жыл бұрын
I like this song. I even wrote a parody of it. Uh-oh! COVID ate up my brain! Uh-oh! COVID ate up my brain! My memory is faulty now, my brain cells drowned! My memory is faulty now, my brain cells drowned!
@joeoconnor81063 жыл бұрын
👍
@TheBigjohn5272 жыл бұрын
Rumor has it they had a great softball team then, too. Their nine stacked up pretty well against the other groups in The Folk Scene League. Just kidding. Hmm, you never know though. (; Great timeless song!
@toniavandersluis1609 жыл бұрын
Ik ken dit liedje uit mijn jeugd maar wie er toen de zanger van was weet ik niet en ook niet of de tekst inmiddels is veranderd, bij die regen dacht ik altijd aan tranen omdat een oom altijd begon te huilen bij dit liedje.
@corinacalderon54323 жыл бұрын
Me and my brother found a random tape in the house we moved in...and this was the song on it. We thought it was funny and would sing it. Then we wanted to show our mom the song...so we played it in the car for her and sang along...then she abruptly stopped the car, made us get out, and throw it in our apartment dumpster....good times
@pamelahenri3131 Жыл бұрын
Too bad your mom threw it away. Glad you & your bro got to enjoy it! :)
@maureenhanratty73883 жыл бұрын
Nice harmony.
@johntate57227 ай бұрын
Over here in the uk this song was covered by ronnie hilton with backing by...was it mike sammes? This is great too!! Didnt the serendipity singers also do "beans in your ears"?