Missing childhood - RHYTHM OF THE RAIN THE CASCADES REACTION

[@timkbt]

I played with Eddie Preston Snyder for about two years and we toured as the Cascade’s. Eddie was the original guitar player and owned the name. The musicians on the song were members of the Wrecking Crew. Carol Kaye, Hal Blain and Glen Campbell. Eddie and his wife Jackie passed away over ten years ago from cancer. All but John the lead singer have passed away. John Gummoe wrote and sang the song. He came up with the chorus by just noodling using only the five black keys on a piano. It was the ninth most played song on the radio and tv in the 20th century. Number one was you lost this loving feeling.

[@Sarvasaha]

Must be 45 years since I last heard this. Takes me back.

[@dlbeal]

The magic of music, it can take you to places you need to go. Bless you!

[@diannaspang51]

I remember when this first came out. I was in grade school but fell in love with this song.

[@Mattdirk59]

Came out in '63! 58 years, a true oldie but goodie! Loved this!

[@B.R.0101]

Classic, beautiful for the night! 🌟

[@carolespinoza8452]

I was born 1950 so ive been through 5 decades of music.💞💞💞💞💞

[@francesrupinski6732]

These songs from back in the 60s are really great. I enjoy the oldies especially now I’m in my 60s I enjoy it more and more.

[@saragodres-tomes1032]

Loved that reaction. I too grew up with my parents plathis music.

[@cheryllavrinc4536]

Your folks had great taste in music. You were blessed

[@wandaphillips3884]

oh my goodness -I can still remember all the words and sing along. thank you for such fond memories

[@donaldduck2139]

I can relate with your tie to this song, I also had this song in my early memories and Im 63 ... I seen a quite recent version otf the cascades performing this live, sounded absolutely great, apparently they were all in the Navy and and when they got out formed this band... from memory that is ....

[@elizabethmuhleisen357]

Thank you thank you thank you! Yes that was one of my favorite songs as a six year old in 1963 :-)

[@peggypieters661]

There was just a sweet calmness with the music back then; remember this when I was in elementary school. So soothing.❤️

[@lisagresham1601]

I was 2 years old when this song came out!

[@lindabrewer3243]

Harri...I will be 64 soon and I am just like you. Our family owned a diner with a juke box and the music I heard over those 20+ years, including this one. I can also see the label on the 45's....it is amazing. Music has always been my life and always will be. Thank you for playing this.

[@vandoraginther6421]

Harri I remember when I used to listen to this sweet song, yes I'm a little bit aged but how fortunate I was to have lived in the 50's and on. The best musical time anyone could have wanted to live. I love your reactions Harri.

[@thomasmanning829]

Hey my friend, im 70. My mother loved music and let my brother and i listen to music with the volumn turned down low when i was 12. I loved this. Many nights i drifted off to sleep listening.......

[@FleagleSangria]

I always imagined Ricky Nelson singing this song. One of the greatest songs ever. One cant help but smile and get starry eyed when it starts to play.

[@Marrero79]

The joy on your face when the song first began to play and you knew it really was the song from your childhood was priceless!! 💕💜💕💜

[@byronmitchell3784]

CASCADES, "RHYTHM OF THE FALLING RAIN"... I liked this song so much as kid in the 60's that it was one of the first songs lyrics I memorized...

[@fscottgray9784]

Loved this song when I was a little boy in the 60s. Always sang along to it.

[@patriciakeith6755]

Songs like this are the ones I grew up listening to. Telling my age now.

[@wayne_twentyfive]

Yeah, but what great songs to have as the soundtrack for our youth .. We were lucky.

[@carolespinoza8452]

Harri, i had to hear this song you was talking about in your other video. One of my favorites back in the day. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🍻 nothing like the oldies👍👍😎

[@youngwrenzo]

When I was 9, 10… 12 years old I used to go through my older brother’s and sister’s 45 rpms and listen to them over and over. This was one of them. I bet I haven’t heard this in 45 years.

[@wallacecallow2255]

It doesn't matter that this song came out when I was a young child, and you weren't born yet. The memory has the same type of nostalgic effect on us!

[@jeffcobb2734]

Isn't it amazing how a song can transport you back to a certain time in your life? Judging by your visceral reaction, this one really took you somewhere!

[@ChuckHackney]

The incredible power of great music.

[@ChuckHackney]

The absolute power of music It is the most evocative of all mankind's art forms. It is like being in a time machine, you can feel, taste and experience the moment all over again.

[@oliveramilicevic1669]

My god Harri. As a kid in a candy store. You really are a guru for musical reactions. A man with a huge soul. I always enjoy listening to music with you, even though I've known some songs for 30 years.

[@lynnbrowning6296]

Hi Harry ☀️☀️☀️your smile was so bright when you recognized the song that for a moment it eclipsed the sun here in Canada

[@leeyaferguson9019]

My mama used to sing this to me and my brother. One of my fondest memories. Thankyou Hari.

[@deegomez2089]

Awww, you're reaction at the lead in of the song.....priceless 🎶🎵

[@daisyclifton9784]

Harri you're killing me with these memory flashbacks. Love to be transported back to those days. Things were simple then.

[@karenhicks6353]

I was a kid and remember it well! Love songs from that era.

[@raydemoll5542]

The look on your face as the song began- PRICELESS! One of my most favorite songs from back in the day. You should try lightning strikes by lou christie and teen angel by mark dinning

[@melodymcdonald2140]

I really like that you are finding these great old songs. They bring back so many sweet memories. Thank you for digging a little deeper and doing songs that other reactors don't/won't. 😊

[@brettwilkie3833]

A real hippie style vibe with this one & you rarely hear it mow.. I have the original 45rpm on vinyl, & it's actually titled "The Rain, the Park, & Other Things" It stll occasionally gets a play too.

[@wendysilva8749]

Love this and your reaction! Brings back memories for sure!

[@joeypatton8592]

Harri, great reaction! You often say exactly how I feel. I enjoy listening and watching your reactions.

[@beedeegee9374]

One of the most cherished songs of my very early childhood. It was released in 1963.

[@kyleklunk6777]

I'm glad it made you so happy. Its amazing how songs can just grab you and warp you back in time and time is frozen.

[@geoffreyrowe6929]

Love your reaction. Makes you feel good hearing a lost song from your childhood.

[@denisemay6807]

Haha, this is a forgotten favorite of mine when I was little as well! I totally forgot about it til now. Thank you!

[@jbear3562]

"Rhythm of the Rain" was an international hit in 1962. The Cascades have quite a list of popular songs: "The Last Leaf", "Shy Girl", and "First Love Never Dies" are just a few. Great Group that is largely forgotten today.

[@ChuckHackney]

Isn't it amazing how music can take us back to our youth and particular memories and help us relive them over and over. Magical.

[@AlamoDame7]

A beloved song of my childhood, too, only it was the release (early Sixties??). You aren't as old as me, so you must have heard it when it was already an "oldie." Love your reactions, as usual. Thanks, Harri-- you're one of the B E S T.

[@shellymarquez9320]

I know that feeling you’re describing! It’s what music in general does to me!❤️❤️

[@michaellazzeri2069]

SPRING OF '63, I WAS 16 Y/O, A JUNIOR IN HS ------------WHAT A TIME IT WAS TO BE YOUNG. ----------WOULDN'T HAVE MISSED IT FOR ANYTHING. -----------------------MJL, 76 Y/O

[@Lfg117]

The backstory around the making of this all time pop classic gave me chills! Thank u again! Powerful story all around.

[@double00spy]

I understand your reaction, Harry. This is one of my all time favorite songs.

[@kimking6036]

I honestly had forgotten this song. It was one of my brother's or sister's record. I use to lay on my bed when it rained. We had an old tin roof on our farm house.And it always seemed to me the rain and song were in time with each other. Thanks for the memory Harri♥️

[@steveparker8065]

I also remember this from my childhood. Listening to this on a 45 rpm vinyl, staring out of a window as the rain splashes against the glass and cascades down in miniature rivers. Feeling the security and warmth of being indoors with my face inches from a storm on the other side of the glass. Loving the strange melancholy and thinking about a girl at school I fancied.

[@randywest7252]

Thanks for posting.Great song from my youth.

[@johnbutcher2587]

remember listening to this at similar age 3 or 4 and still love it. the other song i remember from that age is You can never stop me loving you though pretty sure it was a copy of more famous artist

[@michaelmolloy6697]

Thank you Harri for bringing these songs back to life! You are very much appreciated out here!!!!!!! I was in High School when this came out. It was so popular. A lot of memories I know for many people. Songs were simple with a good message and we are thankful for them.

[@damonhines8187]

Another outstanding, classic song! Thanks, Harri! ✌😘🎶🔥💞 Btw, you MUST do 'Laugh, Laugh' by the Beau Brummels (1965-produced, incidentally, by Sylvester Stewart, aka Sly Stone.)

[@lovemyrainydays]

Brilliant! That was fun! Dont'cha love it when stuff like this happens - for me youtube did it again last week - for YEARS (like over 30) i'd been trying to find a song I'd not heard since my childhood an low and behold youtube suggests a song for me and voilà!! (it was Dave Clark 5's Over and Over by the way).

[@lindaartz3297]

Music and aromas take us back decades, instantly.

[@maryannashenfelder5513]

Thank you for enjoying the music I grew up with

[@shadow1674]

You're also not going to believe this I started up your song and we've been waiting and waiting and waiting for the rain a few minutes into your song here comes the rain lol

[@sharonpate5481]

I love how your face lit up and that beautiful smile when the song began! Thanks Harri ☮️♥️🙏🏼

[@stephenulmer3781]

Love this song. Reminds me of my mom. Another great song from this same year)1963) is "Our day will come" by Ruby and the Romantics. Glad you rediscovered this song, Harri 😀

[@happymethehappyone8300]

SPEAKING OF RHYTHM & CLASSICS,, THE BLACKBYRDS "WALKING IN RHYTHM"..A FEEL GOOD SMOOTH SOUL GROOVE.

[@jamessceeles4397]

One of my favorite rain songs, but Gordon Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain and Keith Whitley's I'm No Stranger to the Rain are my tops. Glad for your memory recovery. Who'll stop the rain; just so many rain songs, but Gale Garnett's We'll sing in the sunshine will get you out of the rain.

[@odiebryer2144]

Harri, I remember sitting with my boyfriend, Mike, in his 1957 black & silver Chevy, in the rain, talking about how much I loved this song! This would have been in late 1967 or early 1968. He was the one who told me he had heard somewhere that girls were 17% more affectionate when it was raining! That is a statistic that I remember to this date and tell people all the time! Thanks for the memory! Love your channel ❤!

[@michaeldey1894]

I was in High School and going through my own first love breakup. Great Song. Thanks for reacting.

[@alexjohnson2068]

You are a joy to experience music with. I remember this from so long ago and it's always stayed with me...it really is one from deep in the archives. Thanks, you do a great job...💐

[@helenahopkinson381]

Love this song hear ir all the time on the radio here in New Zealand on Magic Radio station they play 50s 60s and 70s music

[@richardyoung6214]

I recently had a similar experience on utube with a song called "Sacred" by the Castelles. Similar era and similar effect on me.Your emotion is contagious: Brother

[@suzie4417]

Love your Reaction Harri 💓 It is very much like your reaction to George Harrison’s ‘My Sweet Lord’ I still shed tears when I watch you react 🎶 💎The Cascades just bring happiness with this song!! Ricky Nelson also did a version of this & was a hit 😻🇨🇦💜

[@gabrieldecampos7774]

I love this song and band.

[@r.awilliams9815]

Some of the musicians on this recording might surprise you...it's The Wrecking Crew. Hal Blaine on drums, Carol Kaye on bass and Glen Campbell on guitar.

[@larryrucker]

It is so wonderful to see the expression on your face when you hear the music. I can see the memories returning, the joy of youth breaking forth. That is one of the greatest things about music, the memories associated with so many songs and tunes. I really enjoy watching your reactions to so many of the songs of my youth. Growing up in the 50s and 60s with Rock/Pop music in its infancy and seeing the progression into the 70s. I once read that most of the good songs had been written, as there are only so many ways to arrange the words. The song writers then had a nearly blank page to start, and also had new audiences that had not been exposed to the sounds yet to come. You have many great songs awaiting your reactions, enjoy them all.

[@mzphillips53]

God bless KZbin. It is so wonderful to just type in a song from your childhood and bam there it is. There was a song from about 1962 or 63 that I loved so much when I was about 10. When I first discovered KZbin I went to see if I could find it and was so wonderful to see it there. It was Ketty Lester singing Love Letters (Straight from your Heart.) Oh my, it will put you in a zone. She went on to become an actress and played Hester Sue on Little House on the Prairie in the US back in the 70's. I just love her.

[@littleaeros4063]

I'm so glad you found this song, It's one of my very favorites of all time. Your reaction made me smile/cry with happiness for you. They also had a song called The Last Leaf, I still have both of those on my original 45's.

[@axiomist4488]

I just got a hell of a shock too. I always thought this was sung by some solo singer from the early sixties, like Bobby Vinton or someone like that. Now I find out, after almost 60 years, that it was a group I'd never heard of !!! I even had to go to Wikipedia to make sure, but it doesnt mention anybody else. Unbelieavable ! I always loved this song, especially because of the thundern and rain, but also the melody is so beautiful and the song is so romantic, which really gets to you when youre a teenage boy. Although at the time Id never lost anyone, I was caught by the mystery and sadness (from songs) of what losing a love would be like. I was just as shocked as you were when I heard this. That beautiful bell sound was made by a "celesta", which looks like a small piano and has been around since 1880. You can see them leaning on the small keyboard in the picture . It's a small world, like the saying goes ; the real distance comes only from time . The singer has a beautiful voice and it's so nice how he enunciates the words .

[@davidduxbury7530]

Fantastic,heartwarming reaction!!So happy for you to find a song from your past.I know the song too,but alway's thought it was a Ricky Nelson song!!🤗🤗🤗

[@ChuckHackney]

Another tres catchy auditory gem from the 60s.

[@kj320175]

Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again- The Fortunes

[@pavelsuvorov5036]

A very pleasant and bright voice!Wow!Great reaction, buddy .Thanks!😲👏🇷🇺

[@ervklein6086]

Isn’t it great when you find a song like this? Way to go, Harri!

[@kkristine66]

It's been a while since you published this but I'm watching it for the first time. I teared up watching your reaction in the first few seconds of the song. I know exactly what you feel. This happens to me also, including this song. there were a couple others that really moved to me when I heard them. music like this is like a time machine. It transports you back to a time you will never be able to live again.

[@webbtrekker534]

I was in High School when this came out and I, too, fell in love with it. Thanks for sharing. I love your reaction to hearing it. So glad you got to relive a portion of your childhood memories.

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

OMG THIS SONG! *brain asplodes* I havent heard this song in decades!

[@debbiechang5781]

You must know this from your parents. This is from my early childhood (we’re talking late 50’s early 60’s)! Regardless of how we became acquainted with it, it’s just delicious!! I would hope you could steer your daughter, Music, toward the Beatles. If she likes the BeeGees, she will love the greatest band of all time! Lol! Just dispensing free parenting advice. 🥰🌺✌️

[@LEObondTraveller]

Yes an incredibly beautiful song. I don't want to say the cliche "They don't write songs like that anymore," but, they don't write songs like that anymore ... In Thailand they celebrate the beginning of the Rainy season each year. A huge Festival! If you haven't been then go! I used this song in in my "Celebrating Thai Water Festival" KZbin video a few months ago. An amazing song and an amazing festival! Thanks for also sharing this song and making it live again!

[@StevenW1958]

Harri, I love your reaction to this song. You are the best. Perhaps another song you can react to is from The Tradewinds in 1965, singing New York’s a Lonely Town.

[@conniedean1977]

I’m happy for you, recapturing a childhood memory. ❤

[@TinaFahy-jx4om]

What a pleasure to see your face light up when the first note reached your ear. I've always loved this song and now at 74, it brings back so many good memories. Thanks for sharing your delight.

[@bobbistevens5648]

Harri, how charming. You are like a child with your joy and enthusiasm over this song. We so enjoy your reactions.

[@danielkelleher2419]

A terrific Rain song along with Dee Clark’s It Must be Raindrops and The Temps, I Wish it Would Rain!

[@DavidB-2268]

And the Everly Brothers - Crying in the Rain

[@kenchristie9214]

The Dee Clark song is called Raindrops. Two more great songs are Lou Christie's (no relation - he's got talent) are Lightning Strikes and Rhapsody In The Rain.

[@daventunes3822]

And "Summer Rain" by Johnny Rivers.

[@beeseewill2407]

"Rhythm of the rain" has been covered sooooo many times,but this is the one.I like Dan Fogelberg's version also.

[@andythrush3341]

I actually know this song via Ricky Nelson. isn't it great being a fan of music that is 60 yrs old along with some of today's music? It's good to have an open mind for art. Thanks Harri, for thus oldie but goodie!

[@jrdlabs]

Harri, you may be glad to know that The Cascades' lead singer on this song, John Claude Gummoe, is STILL out there singing this song. And he sounds quite good.

[@oldermusiclover]

yes he does

[@Lfg117]

I'm same: I vividly remember certain years tied to where I was when I heard a given hit song.

[@OldBoiler62]

You are right about the label. I still have my copy of the 45 RPM single all these years later. And a couple of hundred more of them too.

[@anthonymunn8633]

This brings back memories of my childhood.My mom had multiple 50s compilations,and this got played a lot.

[@MisterWondrous]

Harri, this song is such an earworm that it goes through my head at least once a month, and maybe even more. Different sections of the song at different times. Being a humorist, I can't help myself, and have tweaked a lyric to say: "The only girl I care about has Gonoree..." I may be going senile. Entering the bright autumn of senescence. Time will tell. My only gripe here is that I always pictured them being far more groovy-looking. More like you than, say, Mike Pence. From the tinkling beginning to the pitter patter at the end, your reaction, as always, is as golden as the songs.

[@61MARCOP]

As a kid, I bought this record (45 rpm) down at the grocery store. It cost 99 cents and I had to save up for it.

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

The band was on ship with my father (US Navy and his name was Harry) and when this song hit they became famous very fast. We had them to our house for Thanksgiving that year and my sister, who was about 14 at the time was very popular with her high school friends when she showed them her autographed album. Years later I would catch up with Dave (drummer) who was still fronting the band. Johnny and others had moved on. Dave and I would have a couple beers when they played at the local Red Coat Inn. Really great guys. Lost track of them but I think John Gummoe (writer and lead singer) is in Washington.

[@LEObondTraveller]

Great story!

[@Lfg117]

I relate to all u said: Like finding lost treasure. ↗️