Singin' in the Rain (song)

Song form

Covers

• Singer Nick Lucas recorded Singing in the Rain in 1929.
• British duo Bob and Alf Pearson recorded the song in 1929 at their first session.
• The song is sung by Dean Martin in a November 1950 episode of the variety show The Colgate Comedy Hour. He performs it while being drenched in water by comedy partner and co-host Jerry Lewis.
• The song is best known today as the centerpiece of the musical film Singin' in the Rain, in which Gene Kelly memorably danced to the song while splashing through puddles during a rainstorm. The song is also performed during the opening credits of the film, and briefly near the end of the film by Debbie Reynolds.
• The song was recorded in Buenos Aires for Odeon Records twice under the title "Cantando Bajo La Lluvia," by Francisco Canaro's orchestra and with the Spanish lyrics sung by Charlo, on December 23, 1929 and again on March 24, 1930. It was also recorded under the same title in 1936 by the Orquesta Tipica Victor, the RCA Victor in-house orchestra in Buenos Aires.
• The song was also recorded by John Serry Sr. and his sextet ensemble in 1954 for RCA Victor records under the musical direction of Ben Selvin on an LP vinyl disc.
• In 1960, Adam Faith recorded his own version of this song on his début album Adam.
• Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney recorded the song in 1961 for use on their radio show and it was subsequently included in the CD Bing & Rosie – The Crosby-Clooney Radio Sessions. Crosby also included the song in a medley on his album On the Happy Side.
• In 1971, Scottish folk rock-singer John Martyn did an acoustic folk jazz-version on his album Bless the Weather, where he accompanied himself on acoustic guitar and sang several overdubbed backing vocals.
• The Pasadena Roof Orchestra has covered the song on many occasions, including releasing it on The Best of the Pasadena Roof Orchestra album in 1973.
• Sammy Davis Jr. gave the song a final US chart ride with a version widely played on easy listening stations.
• Leif Garrett released a version of the song on his 1979 album, Same Goes for You.
• The song was covered by polish musician Zbigniew Wodecki in 1979.
• Glenn Butcher covered this song on the Australian video ABC for Kids Video Hits.
• The song was incorporated by Michael Kamen into his score for the 1988 film Die Hard, where it is most closely associated with the character of Theo.
• Brazilian musician Maurício Pereira wrote a Portuguese-language version of the song, "Cantando num Toró", present in his 1995 debut album Na Tradição.
• British jazz/pop singer Jamie Cullum covered the song on his 2003 album Twentysomething.
• The song was covered in 2004 by Carmen Bradford in her Jazz album "Home With You"
• In the film called Robots, when Fender says goodbye to Loretta with a blowing kiss, he happily sings a parody called "Singing in the Oil" which is to the tune of this song and dances around until he gets caught by a Sweeper.
• A version performed by the UK comedy partnership Morecambe and Wise was ranked at the top of a 2007 poll of their .
• A version was also performed by Jheena Lodwick in 2006, on her album titled "Singing in the rain".
• In 2009 the song was performed by Seth MacFarlane at The Proms.
• An instrumental version of this song is played in Planet 51 where the space probe Rover dances happily Gene Kelly style when he sees raining rocks.
• In 2009 and 2010 the song was performed by South Korean K-pop group Girls' Generation on their Into the New World Tour.
• In 2010, the song was sung in the intermissions of concert tour of the Irish pop band Westlife.
• In 2010, the song was sung on the FOX TV series Glee in a mash-up with Rihanna's "Umbrella" featuring Gwyneth Paltrow.
• There is a jazz instrumental by Sonny Stitt on his 1958 album Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements.
• There is a jazz vocal rendition by Joe Williams on his 1984 album Then and Now.

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In popular culture

• 1959 - "Singin' in the Rain" is whistled by Cary Grant as he takes a shower after the crop duster plane attack in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest.
• 1971 - "Singin' in the Rain" is sung mockingly by Alex DeLarge, played by Malcolm McDowell, in the rape scene in Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange. The Gene Kelly version plays during the end credits.
• 1982 - "Singin' in the Rain" is sung by Inspector Jacques Clouseau played by Peter Sellers as part of the extended version of the grocery scene from The Pink Panther Strikes Again in Blake Edwards' film Trail of the Pink Panther.
• 1990 - The song is referenced in the Terry Pratchett novel Moving Pictures. As people are infected with the dangerous idea of the clicks, Mr. Dibbler, purveyor of sausages-inna-bun, dances down a wet and rainy road and swings off light poles, much to the bemusement of the city Watch.
• 1995 - The song was featured on the TV series Friends in season 2, episode 4, "The One with Phoebe’s Husband", when Ross dances through the rain as he is returning home from having sex with Julie.
• 2007 - The song is sung in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by the character of Jean-Dominique Bauby as a boy waiting with his father at the Berck railway station.
• 2017 - The 2017 Eurovision entry of Italy, Occidentali's Karma, features the phrase "Comunque vada panta rei, and Singing in the Rain".
• 2019 - The song is also used in the season 2 episode, "A Happy Refrain" of Seth MacFarlane's TV series The Orville.

  Other appearances in film and on TV

• The Hollywood Revue of 1929
• The Ship from Shanghai
• The Girl Said No
• The Woman Racket
• The Dogway Melody
• The Divorcee
• Rain or Shine
• Men Call It Love
• Speak Easily
• The Old Dark House