Classic TGP, from 1982: The saga of Lawn Chair Larry, as it happened.

Intramural Team Names

Here is an extract from my collection of actual intramural sports team names at the University of California, Davis, as published in a book by the great Paul Dickson.   I will be contributing more material to another of Paul's books, to be published soon: stay tuned for news about that later this year. 

A look back at "The Canonical List of Meteorological and Geological Song Titles"

(Note to readers:  I used to maintain "The Canonical List of Geological and Meteorological Song Titles," though it hasn't been regularly updated in probably more than a decade. Here is an archived version.

 

METEOROLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SONG TITLES
Songs about weather... songs about geological phenomena.
Just for fun! How many songs or albums or musical performers can you name
that contain a meteorological or geological term? Here are some below.
Keep the list growing, and make additions. (Note: The list excludes titles that
could be more astronomical in nature or origin [Here Comes the Sun;
Sunrise, Sunset; Four Seasons; "sky" with no meteorological qualifiers] or
chemical [Water Runs Dry, Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes].
"Ice" is allowed because it can be the name of a rock. "Rock" songs having to
do with "rock" music or "rock 'n' roll" are not allowed. Colloquial uses such
as "Another One Bites the Dust" would also not be allowed. )
If you can add to this list, email me! Please send suggestions to my home email address (#############) - this is just for fun.
-Tom Gill
Atmospheric Science Group & Dept. of Geosciences
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas 79409-2101, USA.
 THIS COMPILATION COPYRIGHT Ó 1998- 2001 BY THOMAS E. GILL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS FOR ADDING OR INSPIRING THE ADDITION OF TITLES:
Rob Howard, Dee Chaney, Natalie Davis, Jeremy Kumin, Yanuly Sanson, Kim Dyer, Scott Bernier, Jesse Kenyon, Pam Cantrell, Mark Moerman, Linda Heubner, Steven Vest, Rick Brandt, Alan Smithee, John Persing, Gloria Pirs, Joel Bader, Fred Bronson, Hank Van Slyke, Roger Clough, Aly Palmer, Mariann Maeder, Deb O'Hanlon, Thoughtscape Sounds, Keith Holzerson, Bill Kerr, Steve Camden, Chris Bukvic, Jennifer Bennett, Rudy Steffish, Patrick Laplagne, Jeff Lee, Aaron Yoshinobu, Eli Parra, Marjo de Reuver, Aemelia Malic, Lauran Popstar, J. Burley, John Tatarko, Dfunk, Jim Craig, Ray Beiersdorfer
LAST UPDATED: August 28, 2001This site is sponsored by , my pick for the best place online to buy albums with these and other songs.
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100% Chance of Rain (Gary Morris)
1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Richard Thompson)
A Cloud of Red Dust (Stefon Harris album)
A Little Wind Could Blow Me Away (Peter Case)
A Man Ain't Made of Stone (Randy Travis)
A Meeting by the River (album by Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt)
A Night on Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky)
A Whistle On The Wind (album by Joanie Madden)
Acid Rain (Timbuk 3)
Across the Great Divide (Kate Wolf)
Across the River (Bruce Hornsby)
Across the Sand (Earl Klugh)
Aerial Ballet (Harry Nilsson album)
A Foggy Day (Billie Holiday)
African Sky Blue (Juluka)
After The Rain (Jack Tempchin & The Seclusions album)
After The Rain (John Coltrane)
After The Rain Has Fallen (Sting)
After The Snow (Modern English album)
After the Storm (Crosby, Stills and Nash album)
After the Storm (Outfield)
Aftershock (Van Halen)
Against the Wind (Bob Seger: Brooks and Dunn)
Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Diana Ross)
Ain't No Sunshine (Bill Withers)
Air (Talking Heads)
Air On A G String (various artists compilation)
Air Supply (artist)
Airborn (Mile Oldfield album)
Alabama Clay (Garth Brooks)
All At Sea Minor (John Williams)
American Storm (Bob Seger)
An Outcast of the Island (Colin Bass)
Angie Stone (artist)
Another Fine Mesozoic (Rick Manwiller album)
Another Rainy Day (Peter White)
Another Rainy Day in New York City (Chicago)
Another Rainy Night Without You (Queensryche)
Anyway the Wind Blows (Kelly Willis)
Anyway the Wind Blows (Bill Wyman)
Appalachian Rain (Matraca Berg)
Ashes, the Rain and I (James Gang)
Atmos (Jan Gabarek album)
Avalanche (Beth Nielsen Chapman)
Avalanche (Keats)
B Side to Seaside (Suzy and the Red Stripes)
Baby, The Rain Must Fall (Glenn Yarborough)
Bad Weather (Poco: Steve Earle)
Banana Wind (Jimmy Buffett)
Barometer Soup (Jimmy Buffett)
Be Careful of Stones that You Throw (Hank Williams)
Beach Baby (First Class)
Beach Boys (artist)
Because the Wind (Joe Ely)
Bedrock (artist)
Before the Beach (Jimmy Buffett album)
Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne)
Before the Rains (Matt Musselman)
Benny Hill (comedy recording artist)
Beyond the Sea (Bobby Darin, others)
Big Cold Wind (Pat Boone)
Big Muddy (Bruce Springsteen)
Big River (Roger Miller)
Big River (Zachary Richard)
Billy Ocean (singer)
Black Hill (Al Stewart)
Black Hill Mining Town (U2)
Black Muddy River (Grateful Dead)
Black Sea (XTC)
Black Sheets of Rain (Bob Mould)
Black Wind Blowing (Woody Guthrie)
Blame it on the Rain (Milli Vanilli)
Blame it on the Weatherman (B*witched)
Blow In The Wind- Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Blowin' in the Wind (written by Bob Dylan)
Blown by the Wind (Ian Bairnson/ Alan Parsons)
Blue Blue Sky (Alan Parsons)
Blue Clear Sky (George Strait)
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (Willie Nelson)
Blue Haze (group)
Blue Plate Tectonics (Water Shed 5tet album)
Blue Ridge Mountain Sky (Marshall Tucker Band)
Blue Ridge Mountains (bluegrass tune)
Blue Ridge Rangers (artist)
Blue Skies (traditional pop song)
Blue Skies, Blue Water (Carr/Munde)
Blue Sky (Patty Griffin)
Blue Sky Mine (Midnight Oil album)
Blueberry Hill (Fats Domino)
Blues from the Rainforest (Merl Sanders album)
Boats, Beaches, Bars and Ballads (Jimmy Buffett album set)
Born to Laugh at Tornadoes (Was not Was album)
Boulders (Roy Wood album)
Brackagh Hill (Patrick Street)
Broken Stones (Paul Weller)
Buckets of Rain (Bob Dylan)
Bullet the Blue Sky (U2)
Buy For Me The Rain (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
By The Rivers of Babylon (traditional reggae song)
California Earthquake (The Mamas and the Papas)
Calm Before the Storm (Restless Heart)
Calm Before the Storm (Dare album)
Can You Stop the Rain (Peabo Bryson)
Candle in the Wind (Elton John)
Can't Stop the Rain (Los Lobos)
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl (Robert Johnson)
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboys (Elton John album)
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (Victoria Williams)
Caroline Skies (The Exponents)
Carved in Stone (Shadow Gallery album)
Celtic Thunder (artist)
Change In The Weather (John Fogerty)
Chase The Wind (Jimmie Dale Gilmore)
Chris Hillman (artist)
Circle In The Sand (Belinda Carlisle)
Circles In The Wind (Chris Webster)
Cirrus (artist)
Classical Thunder (album)
Clay Blaker (artist)
Clay Walker (artist)
Clear Blue Skies (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
Climb Every Mountain (from "The Sound of Music")
Cloud Nine (George Harrison)
Cloud Nine (Temptations)
Cloud on my Tongue (Tori Amos)
Cloudbreak (Alan Parsons)
Cloudburst (Movement from Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite)
Cloudburst Flight (Tangerine Dream)
Cloudbusting (Kate Bush)
Clouds (Chaka Khan)
Clouds (Joni Mitchell)
Clouds Suite (David Gates)
Coal Chamber (artist)
Coal Miner's Daughter (Loretta Lynn)
Cold as Christmas (Elton John)
Cold as Ice (Foreigner)
Cold Day in Hell (Gary Moore)
Cold Day in July (Suzy Bogguss, Dixie Chicks,)
Cold Gray Morning (Kansas)
Cold Gray Kentucky Morning (Tim Krekel)
Cold Rain (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
Cold Winds (Rankins)
Colin Blunstone (artist)
Colors of the Wind (from "Pocahontas")
Coloured Rain (Traffic)
Come Back When It Ain't Rainin' (Trisha Yearwood)
Come On Rain (Oak Ridge Boys)
Come Rain or Come Shine (Billie Holiday)
Come Some Rainy Day (Wynonna Judd)
Concrete and Clay (?)
Continental Drifters (artist)
Cool Change (Little River Band) (name of an Aussie weather phenomenon)
Cornerstone (Styx album)
Couldn't Stand the Weather (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
Cowgirl In The Sand (Neil Young)
Crawl Back Under My Stone (Richard Thompson)
Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind (Linda Ronstadt)
Cry Me A River (?)
Crying in the Rain (Everly Brothers)
Crystal Fallin' Rain (Ronnie Milsap)
Curved Air (artist)
David Arkenstone (artist)
Delicate Sound of Thunder (Pink Floyd album)
Delta (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
Delta Dawn (Helen Reddy)
Delta Lady (Joe Cocker)
Desert Wind (Ofra Haza)
Diamond Girl (Seals and Crofts)
Diamond Mine (Blue Rodeo)
Diesel and Dust (Midnight Oil album)
Digging In The Dirt (Peter Gabriel)
Dirt (Alice in Chains)
Dirt, Silver and Gold (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album)
Dirty Back Road (B-52's)
DJ Hurricane (rapper)
Don't Count The Rainy Days (Michael Martin Murphey)
Don't Throw Stones (Sports album)
Don't Throw Stones in Other People's Homes (The Sports)
Don't Touch the Marble (Martin Darvill and Friends)
Doug Stone (artist)
Down By The Lazy River (Osmonds)
Down by the River (Neil Young)
Down by the Sea (Strawbs)
Down by the Sea (Men at Work)
Down by the Seaside (Led Zeppelin)
Down on the River (John Hartford album)
Drivin' Thunder (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
Dry The Rain (Beta Band)
Dustbowl Symphony (Nanci Griffith album)
Dust Bowl Blues (Woody Guthrie)
Dust Bowl Children (Peter Rowan album)
Dust Bowl Refugee (Woody Guthrie)
Dust Can't Kill Me (Woody Guthrie)
Dust Devil (Oregon)
Dust in the Wind (Kansas: Eric Benet:)
Dust, Dust, Dust (old Western song)
Dust on the Bottle (David Lee Murphy)
Dust Pneumonia Blues(Woody Guthrie)
Dusty Old Dust (Woody Guthrie)
Dusty Springfield (artist)
Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot)
Early Sumemr Rain (Kevin Welch)
Earthboy (artist)
Earthquake (rock band)
Earthquake (1970s San Francisco Bay Area rock band)
Earthquake Weather (Joe Strummer album)
Earth, Wind and Fire (artist)
Eastern Wind (Chris DeBurgh)
El Nino (artist)
Enter Sandman (Metallica)
Eruption (artist)
Eruption (Focus)
Eruption (Van Halen)
Every Grain of Sand (Bob Dylan)
Everyone Loves a Rain Song (B.J. Thomas)
Every Time It Rains (Ace of Base)
Every Time That It Rains (Garth Brooks)
Exit Planet Dust (Chemical Brothers album)
Eye of A Hurricane (John Anderson)
Eye of the Hurricane (Alarm album)
Eye of the Hurricane (Flying Burrito Brothers)
Famous Blue Raincoat (Jennifer Warnes album and song by Leonard Cohen)
Faith Hill (artist)
Feather, Stone and Light (R. Carlos Nakai album)
Find A River (Valerie Carter)
Find The River (R.E.M.)
Fire and Ice (Pat Benatar)
Fire and Rain (James Taylor)
Fire on the Mountain (Marshall Tucker Band)
Fire on the Mountain (Charlie Daniels Band album)
Fish on the Sand (George Harrison)
Flatlanders (artist)
Flintstones Theme (B-52s)
Flood (Jars of Clay)
Flowers in the Rain (Stress)
Fog on the Tyne (Lindisfarne)
Foggy Mountain Breakdown (bluegrass classic)
Foghat (artist)
Fool In The Rain (Led Zeppelin)
Fool On The Hill (Beatles)
Footsteps in the Sand (Paul McCartney)
Fresh Air (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
Fresh Aire (artist)
Front Range (artist)
Frosty the Snowman (Burl Ives)
Gentle Rain (Art Farmer)
Get In The Wind (Poco)
Get Off Of My Cloud (Rolling Stones)
Ghostly Horses of the Plain (Al Stewart)
Giant Sand (rock group)
Gillis Mountain (The Rankin Family)
God of Thunder (KISS)
Gone With The Wind (Blackmore's Night)
Goodbye Blue Sky (Pink Floyd)
Go Tell It On The Mountain (traditional gospel song)
Grand Canyon Suite ( )
Gravity Storm (Jimmy Buffett)
Grease Lightning (from "Grease")
Green Bubble Raincoated Man (Amon Duul II)
Green River (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Gulf Coast Blues (Joe Ely)
Gulf Coast Highway (Nanci Griffith- recorded by many artists)
Gulf of Mexico (Shawn Mullins)
Guster (artist)
Hail, Hail (Pearl Jam)
Hank Snow (artist)
Hard as a Rock (AC/DC)
Hard Rain Don't Last (Darryl Worley)
Have You Ever Seen the Rain (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Hawkwind (group)
Hazy Mountains (Dale Evans)
Hazy Shade of Winter (Simon & Garfunkel, Bangles)
Heart of Stone (Cher album)
Heart of Stone (Taylor Dayne)
Hearts of Stone (Southside Johnny)
Heat, Dust and Dreams (Johnny Clegg album)
Heavy Cloud No Rain (Sting)
Heavy Weather (Weather Report album)
Heels of the Wind (Elton John)
Hell Freezes Over (Eagles album)
Here Comes the Flood (Peter Gabriel)
Here Comes the Rain (Mavericks)
Here Comes The Rain Again (Eurythmics)
High Country Snows (Dan Fogelberg album)
Home by the Sea (Genesis)
Homeward Through the Haze (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
Horses Through a Rainstorm (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
Hot Lava (B-52s)
Hot Rocks (Rolling Stones album)
Hot Sand (Shocking Blue)
Human Clay (Creed)
Huracan (Pedro Aznar)
Hurricane (Bob Dylan)
Hurricane (Evangeline)
Hurricane 2000 (Scorpions)
I Am A Rock (Paul Simon)
I Can't Stand the Rain (Ann Peebles: Eruption: Missy Elliott; etc.)
I Go To The Rock (gospel song)
I Know Why The River Runs (LeeAnn Womack)
I Love A Rainy Night (Eddie Rabbitt)
I Made It Through the Rain (Barry Manilow)
I Ride in your Slipstream (Richard Thompson)
I Wish It Would Rain (Nanci Griffith)
I Wish It Would Rain Down (Phil Collins)
Ice Age (group)
Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice)
Ice on Fire (Elton John album)
Icehouse (artist)
If the River Can Bend (Elton John)
Ill Wind (???)
I'm No Stranger to the Rain (Keith Whitley)
In from the Storm (Jimi Hendrix)
In The Air Tonight (Phil Collins)
In The Eye of the Storm (Roger Hodgson album)
In the Heat of the Night (Bryan Adams)
In The House of Stone and Light (Martin Page- song about the Grand Canyon)
In the Rain (Dramatics: Kenny G)
Indian Summer (Al Stewart)
Indian Summer (Poco)
Is It Raining at Your House (Vern Gosdin)
Island of Souls (Sting)
Islands in the Stream (Dolly Parton/ Kenny Rogers)
It Can't Rain All the Time (Jane Siberry)
It Isn't Just Raining (Pam Tillis & Vince Gill)
It Never Rains (Dire Straits)
It Never Rains in (Southern) California (Albert Hammond: Trent Sumnar and the New Row Mob)
It Only Rains on Me (Don Williams)
It Only Rains on Saturday (Reba McEntire)
It's Been Raining Here In Long Beach (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
It's Cold Out Tonight (Little River Band)
It's A Very Deep Sea (Style Council)
It's Just the Rain (Journey)
It's Raining Again (Supertramp)
It's Raining Men (The Weather Girls)
It Still Rains in Memphis (T.G. Sheppard)
It Takes A Little Rain (Oak Ridge Boys)
Jars of Clay (artist)
Johnny Rivers (artist)
Journey to a Rainbow (Chuck Mangione)
Just Around the Riverbend (Pocahontas soundtrack)
Just Like The Weather (Suzy Bogguss)
Kentucky Rain (Elvis Presley)
Kiss Me In The Rain (Barbra Streisand)
Kiss The Rain (Billie Myers)
L.A. In The Sunshine (Little River Band)
L.A. Sunshine (War)
La Valse de la Grande Riviere (Zachary Richard)
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
Las Nubes (Little Joe y la Familia)
Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer (Nat King Cole)
Laughter in the Rain (Neil Sedaka)
Lauryn Hill (artist)
Lay Down [Candles in the Rain] (Melanie)
Let It Rain (Azz Izz)
Let It Rain (Eric Clapton)
Let It Rain (Marc Chesnutt)
Let it Snow (holiday tune- Dean Martin)
Let The Wind Carry Me- Jackson Browne
Levelland (James McMurtry)
Lift Up Every Stone (John Hiatt)
Light Up The Sky (Van Halen)
Lightnin' Hopkins (artist)
Lightning Crashes (Live)
Lightning Seeds (group)
Lightning Strikes (Aerosmith)
Lightning Strikes (Lou Christie)
Lightning Strikes (Yes)
Like a Hurricane (Neil Young)
Like A Rock (Bob Seger)
Like A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
Like The Rain (Clint Black)
Like The Weather (10,000 Maniacs)
Like The Wind (Vanessa Chinitor)
Listen To The Wind (Ole Boskov)
Little April Showers (Bambi soundtrack)
Little Bits of Lightning (Martina McBride)
Little Earthquakes (Tori Amos album)
Little River Band (artist)
Little Rock (Collin Raye)
Little Rock (Reba McEntire)
Live from the Mountain Stage (album series)
Living on the Fault Line (Doobie Brothers)
Lonesome River Band (artist)
Looking at the Rain (Hank Wlliams Jr.)
Looking for the Wind (Bill Staines album)
Looks Like Rain (Sunny Jim White)
Louisiana Rain (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
Love can Move Mountains (Celine Dion)
Love Is In The Air (John Paul Young)
Love Is Like A Rock (Donnie Iris)
Love Letters in the Sand (Pat Boone)
Love on the Rocks (Neil Diamond)
Loves Me Like A Rock (Paul Simon)
Lovin' A Hurricane (Suzy Bogguss)
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Beatles)
Lyre In A Windstorm (Bruce Gaitsch album)
Make It Rain (The Nixons)
Makin' Love in the Rain (Janet Jackson)
Mandolin Rain (Bruce Hornsby and The Range)
Mandolin Wind (Rod Stewart)
March From Bridge over the River Kwai (from movie soundtrack)
Mansion on the Hill (Bruce Springsteen)
Meeting Across the River (Bruce Springsteen)
Mercury Falling (Sting album)
Midnight Rocks (Al Stewart)
Mighty Clouds of Joy (gospel group)
Mineral (Buffalo Tom)
Missisippi Delta City Blues (Chicago)
Mist on a Monday Morning (The Move)
Mistral Wind (Heart)
Misty (Johnny Mathis)
Misty Mountain Hop (Led Zeppelin)
Monsoon (Little River Band album)
Montgomery in the Rain (Hank Williams Jr.)
Moody River (Pat Boone)
Moon River (pop classic)
Mountain (rock group)
Mountain of Love (Johnny Rivers)
Mountain Top (Michael Gonzales album)
Mountains In Minutes (Nits)
Move Any Mountain (Shamen)
Mr. Blue Sky (E.L.O.)
Mr. Sandman (recorded by various artists)
Mud (group)
Muddy Waters (artist)
Must Be My Land (Jan Akkerman)
My Name is Mud (Primus)
Mystery Wind (Richard Thompson)
Naked In The Rain (Dio)
Never Blame the Rainbow for the Rain (Moody Blues)
New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Bee Gees)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (artist)
No More Rain In This Cloud (Angie Stone)
No Rain (Blind Melon)
Northern Lights (Kenny G)
Notting Hillbillies (artist)
November Rain (Guns & Roses)
Nubes Negras (Pedro Aznar)
Obscured by Clouds (Pink Floyd)
Oceans (Pearl Jam)
Ocean Blue (artist)
Ocean Gypsy (Renaissance)
Ocean Front Property - George Strait
Of Time and Rivers Flowing (traditional folk tune)
Of Time and Rivers Flowing (Mason Williams album)
Oh The Wind And The Rain (Jody Stecher: Jerry Garcia)
Oilwell Texas (Maryanne Price)
Old Man River (from Showboat)
Old Time River Man (John Hartford)
On Air (Alan Parsons album)
On the Dunes (Donald Fagen)
One Fair Summer Evening (Nanci Griffith album)
One Grain of Sand (traditional gospel tune)
One Step Ahead Of The Storm (Tracy Lawrence)
Only Happy When it Rains (Garbage)
Only The Wind- Pet Shop Boys
Orinoco Flow (Enya)
Out of the Valley (John Gorka album)
Over the Hills (artist?)
Over the Hills and Far Away (Gary Moore)
Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zeppelin)
Over the Mountain (Ozzy Osbourne)
Over The Rainbow (Livingston Taylor)
Ozark Mountain Daredevils (artist)
Papa Was A Rolling Stone (Temptations)
Pebbles (artist)
People of the South Wind (Kansas)
Periwinkle Sky (Victoria Williams)
Philospher's Stone (Van Morrison)
Phoebe Snow (artist)
Playa del Pressbox (Jim Hoehn album)
Playing with Lightning (Shot in the Dark)
Postcard from 5 Mile Beach (James White album)
Pray for Rain (Tim Feehan album)
Pressure Drop (Toots and the Maytals)
Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
Purple Rain (Prince, LeeAnn Rimes)
Quicksand (Martha and the Vandellas)
Rain (Beatles)
Rain (Corrs)
Rain (Madonna)
Rain And Tears (Aphrodites Child)
Rain Blessing (Paul Winter)
Rain Forest (Paul Hardcastle album)
Rain Kings (Counting Crows)
Rain in the Summertime (Alarm)
Rain On The Scarecrow (John Cougar Mellencamp)
Rain Song (Led Zeppelin)
Rain, Rain, Go Away (Bobby Vinton)
Rainbow (heavy-metal group)
Rainbow Bridge (Jimi Hendix album)
Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog; Kenny Loggins)
Rainbow in the Dark (Ronnie Dio)
Rainbow 'Mid The Willows (Patrick Street)
Rainbow Over the Hill (Richard Thompson, Albion Band)
Rainbow Rider (Tanya Tucker)
Rainbow Song (Merle Haggard)
Rainbow Valley (The Herd)
Raincloud (The Lighthouse Family)
Raindrops (pop song)
Raindrops (group)
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (BJ Thomas)
Rainin' In My Heart (Jo-El Sonnier)
Raining in Baltimore (Counting Crows)
Raining in my Heart (Bobby Vinton: Crickets)
Raining on our Love (Shania Twain)
Rainy Day (Guster)
Rainy Day People (Gordon Lightfoot)
Rainy Day Women (Bob Dylan)
Rainy Day Women (Waylon Jennings)
Rainy Days and Mondays (Carpenters)
Rainy Girl (Tanya Tucker)
Rainy Night in Georgia (Brook Benton)
Rainy Nights and Memories (Don Williams)
Reach the Rock (Havana 3 A.M.)
Red Hill Mining Town (U2)
Red Rain (Peter Gabriel)
Red River Valley (traditional)
Remember Walkin' in the Sand (ShangriLas)
Respect the Wind (Eddie and Alex VanHalen)
Rhapsody in the Rain (Lou Christie>
Rhinestone Cowboy (Glenn Campbell)
Rhythm of the Rain (Cascades)
Riddles in the Sand (Jimmy Buffett album)
Ride Across the River (Dire Straits)
Ride Like the Wind (Christopher Cross)
Ride the Lightning (Metallica)
Ride the Wild Surf (Jan & Dean)
Ride the Wind (Poison)
Ride the Wind to Me (Julie Miller)
Riders on the Storm (Doors)
Ridin' the Storm Out (REO Speedwagon)
Riding With the Wind (Matt Bianco)
Rising Creek Bluegrass Band (artist)
River (Enya)
River Deep, Mountain High (Motown classic)
River of Dreams (Billy Joel)
River of Endless Love (Moody Blues)
River of Love (B.W. Stevenson)
River So Wide (Phil Collins)
Rockin' With The Rhythm of the Rain (Judds)
Rock Island Line (Lonnie Donegan)
Rock of Ages (hymn)
Rock You Like A Hurricane (Scorpions)
Rocks (Aerosmith album)
Rocks in the Ocean (Al Stewart)
Rocky (film soundtrack)
Rocky Mountain Breakdown (Poco)
Rocky Mountain High (John Denver)
Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh)
Rocky Raccoon (Beatles)
Rocky Top (traditional bluegrass song)
Rolling Ocean (Johnny Clegg and Savuka)
Rolling Stones (artist)
Ropin' the Wind (Garth Brooks album)
Rosa de los Vientos (Ruben Blades)
Roses in the Snow (Emmylou Harris)
Run Between The Raindrops (Pat Benatar)
Run River Run (Kenny Loggins?)
Running With The Wind (Kevin Chalfant album)
Sage and Sand (Wylie and the Wild West)
Sahara Snow (rock group featuring Rick Springfield)
Same Old Rain (Kevin Welch)
Sand and Water (Beth Nielsen Chapman)
Sand in the Vaseline (Talking Heads album)
Sand In Your Shoes (Al Stewart)
Sandbar Serenade (Sunny Jim White album)
Sands of Nevada (Mark Knopfler)
Sandstorm (Jerry Fochtmann)
Sandstorm (artist)
Santa Monica Sunshine (The Sweet)
Sea Cruise (recorded by several artists)
Sea of Love (various artists recorded this)
Seaside Woman (Suzy and the Red Stripes)
Seawind (jazz fusion group)
Second Home By The Sea (Genesis)
Seven Seas of Rye (Queen)
Shadows in the Rain (Sting)
She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft (Jerry Reed)
She's A Rainbow (Rolling Stones)
She's Like the Wind (Patrick Swayze)
She Steers by Lightning (Richard Thompson)
Shifting Sand (Caedmon's Call)
Shotgun Down the Avalanche (Shawn Colvin)
Silver Rainbow (Genesis)
Silvery Rain (Olivia Newton-John)
Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac
Singin' in the Rain (Fred Astaire)
Sky Blue and Black (Jackson Browne)
Slow Rivers (Elton John)
Smog (artist name)
Smoke From a Distant Fire (Sanford-Townsend Band)
Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple [and many marching bands…])
Smokey (artist)
Smokey Robinson (artist)
Smoky Mountain Rain (Ronnie Milsap)
Snow (artist)
Snow Flake (Jim Reeves)
Snow Girl (Haircut One Hundred)
Snow in July (Chris Gaines aka Garth Brooks)
Snow on the Sahara (Anggun) </P)
Snowbird (Ann Murray)
Snowblind (Black Sabbath)
Snowbound (Genesis)
Snowbound (Donald Fagen)
Snowfall (Tony Bennett)
Snowfall in the Sahara (Natalie Cole)
Snowy White (artist)
Soil Festivities (Vangelis album)
Solid Rock (Dire Straits)
Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
Some Days Are Diamonds [Some Days Are Stone] (John Denver)
Something In The Air (Nightwing)
Sometimes the Rain Won't Let Me Sleep (Oak Ridge Boys)
Somewhere Over The Rainbow (from the movie)
Son of the Beach (Mark Northey album)
Songs from the Rain (Hothouse Flowers album)
Songs Out of Clay (Al Stewart)
Sons of Beaches (Bellamy Brothers album)
Sound of Aeolian Harps (Windsongs album)
Sound of Wind-Driven Rain (Will Ackerman)
South Wind of Summer (Flatlanders)
Southern Rain (Mel Tillis)
Southern Winds (Maria Muldaur)
Sparkle in the Rain (Simple Minds album)
Spring Rain (Silvetti)
St. Elmo's Fire (John Parr)
Stand A Little Rain (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
Stand on the Rock (Fleetwood Mac)
Standing on Higher Ground (Alan Parsons Project)
Steal My Sunshine (Len)
Steel Breeze (artist)
Stepping Stone (Lari White)
Stereotomy (Alan Parsons Project)
Stone Canyon Band (Rick Nelson's band)
Stone City Band (Rick James's band)
Stone Cold Crazy (Queen)
Stone Gossard (musician)
Stone in Love (Supremes)
Stone of Sisyphus (Chicago)
Stone Roses (artist)
Stone Temple Pilots (artist)
Stones In The Road (Joan Baez, MaryChapin Carpenter)
Stoney End (Barbra Streisand)
Storm (rock group)
Storm Front (Billy Joel)
Storms (Grace Jones)
Storms (Nanci Griffith album)
Storms in Africa (Enya)
Stormwind (Europe)
Stormy Blues (Billie Holiday)
Stormy Weather (Lena Horne)
Stranded On A Sandbar (Jimmy Buffett)
Strange Weather (Tom Waits: Marianne Faithful)
Stratosfear (Tangerine Dream)
Strong, Strong Wind (Heart)
Sugar Hill Gang (artist)
Summer Breeze (Seals and Crofts)
Summer Rain (Johnny Rivers)
Summer Sand (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
Summer Wind (Frank Sinatra)
Summer Wind (Desert Rose Band)
Sunny (Georgie Fame)
Sunny Afternoon (Kinks, Jimmy Buffett)
Sunny Came Home (Shawn Colvin)
Sunny Days Again (Lighthouse)
Sunny Side of the Mountain (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
Sunny Side of the Street (pop classic)
Sunshine (Brian Wilson)
Sunshine (Jonathan Edwards)
Sunshine of Your Love (Cream)
Sunshine on a Rainy Day (Christine Anu: other artist)
Sunshine on my Shoulders (John Denver)
Sunshine Superman (Donovan)
Surf City (Beach Boys)
Sweet Sunshower (Chris Cornell)
Take Me To The River (Al Green, Talking Heads, other artists)
Take This Rain (Jackson Browne)
Tales from Topographic Oceans (Yes album)
Talk To Me Like The Rain (Patti Scialfa)
Talking Dust Bowl Blues (Woody Guthrie)
Tambourine Mountain (Rick Price album)
Tea In The Sahara (Police)
Teardrops Fall Like Rain (Crickets)
Tears of Stone (the Chieftains)
Texas Flood (Stevie Ray Vaughan album)
Texas Tornado (Doug Sahm)
Texas Tornado (Tracy Lawrence)
Texas Tornadoes (artist)
That Rock Won't Roll (Restless Heart)
That Ol' Wind (Garth Brooks)
The Air is Getting Slippery (Primus)
The Air that I Breathe (Hollies)
The Chill Eastern Winds (Silly Wizard)
The Coldest Winter in Memory (Al Stewart)
The Dark and the Rolling Sea (Al Stewart)
The Dust Brothers (artist)
The Great Dust Storm (Woody Guthrie)
The Heart to Climb the Mountain (Randy Travis)
The Heat Goes On (Asia)
The Hill Where the Lord Lives (Chuck Magione)
The Lee Shore (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
The Mountains Win Again (Blues Traveler)
The Ocean (Led Zeppelin)
The Philosopher's Stone (Van Morrison album)
The Rain Came Down (Steve Earle)
The Rain Came Down on Everything (Roy Wood)
The Rain King (Counting Crows)
The Rain, The Park and Other Things (Cowsills)
The Rainsong (Matt Musselman)
The Rainy Season (Marc Cohn)
The River (Bruce Springsteen)
The River (Garth Brooks)
The River (Rankin Family)
The River God (John Williams)
The River Runs Low (Bruce Hornsby and the Range)
The Rivers of Belief (Enigma)
The Rock (Harry Chapin)
The Sand and the Sea (Nat King Cole)
The Sand Sound of the Wind (Jules Shear)
The Storm (4th Movement of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony)
The Sun Never Shines on the Lonely (Redbone)
The Thin Ice (Pink Floyd)
The Thunder Rolls (Garth Brooks)
The Tornadoes (artist)
The Water is Wide (traditional folk song)
The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful (Jimmy Buffett)
The Whispering Wind (Mandy Barnett)
The Wind (Cat Stevens)
The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix)
The Wind's Dominion (Butch Hancock album)
There Is A Breeze (Michael Johnson album)
Thin Ice (Little River Band)
Third Rock From The Sun (Joe Diffie)
Third Stone From the Sun (Jimi Hendrix)
Thunder (Prince)
Thunder and Lightning (Chi Coltrane)
Thunder and Lightning (Chicago)
Thunder and Lightning (Gamma)
Thunder and Roses (Mindy McCready song: Pam Tillis album)
Thunder Chord (Coyote Oldman album)
Thunder in my Heart (Leo Sayer)
Thunder Island (Jay Ferguson)
Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen)
Thunderball (Tom Jones)
Thunderclap Newman (artist)
Thundercrack (Bruce Springsteen)
Thunderdome (Tina Turner)
Thunderhead (Malcolm Dalglish album)
Thundering Herd (Woody Herman's big band)
Thunderstorms and Neon Signs (Wayne Hancock album)
Thunderstruck (AC/DC)
Time Is an Ocean (Paul Simon)
Time To Come In Out of the Rain (Chi Coltrane)
Tommy Sands (artist)
Tracks in the Dust (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
Trapped Under Ice (Metallica)
Tropical Depression (Gonna Blow my Heart Away) (Alan Jackson)
Tryin' to Reason with Hurricane Season (Jimmy Buffett)
Tsunami (Manic Street Preachers)
Tsunami (GangBangs UK)
Tulare Dust (Tom Russell)
Tullamore Dew (Dan Fogelberg)
Turn to Stone (ELO)
Twistin' in the Wind (Joe Ely album)
Two Sparrows in a Hurricane (Tanya Tucker)
Uncloudy Day (traditional gospel tune)
Under A Blood-Red Sky (U2)
Under African Skies (Paul Simon)
Under the Mountain- Oregon
Under the Red Sky (Bob Dylan album)
Up A Lazy River- Si Zentner
Up On The Hill (Jimmy Buffett)
Up on the Ridge (Joe Ely)
Valley Road (Bruce Hornsby)
Vanilla Ice (artist)
Vapors (artist)
Velvet Underground (artist)
Vince Hill (artist)
Voices in the Wind (Suzy Bogguss album)
Volcano (Jimmy Buffett)
Volcano (Presidents of the U.S.A.)
Waiting on the Wind (Pam Tillis)
Wake of the Flood (Grateful Dead album)
Walk Me In The Rain (Girls Next Door)
Walking In the Rain (Walker Brothers)
Walking on Ice (Keats)
Walking on Sunshine (Katrina and the Waves)
Warm Breeze (Andrew Gold album)
Warm Front (Billy Joe Walker Jr.)
Warm Place in the Snow (Jon Anderson)
Wasn't That A Mighty Storm (traditional folk song about Galveston hurricane)
Waterfalls (TLC)
Wayward Wind (traditional)
We Work The Black Seam (Police)
Weather Girls (artist)
Weather Report (jazz fusion group)
Weather With You (Split Enz)
West Texas Winds (Jane Begley)
Whatever Way the Wind Blows (Kelly Willis)
When Sunny Gets Blue (classic jazz song)
When The Fog Comes Rolling In- Stack of Bones
When The Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin) When The Coast is Clear (Jimmy Buffett)
When the Rain Comes Down (Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer)
When The Rainbow Comes (World Party)
When The Rainbow Comes (Shawn Colvin)
When The Stone Begins to Turn (Jackson Browne)
When Will It Rain (Jackyl)
Where the River Flows (Collective Soul)
White Rock (Rick Wakeman)
White Lightning (Def Leppard)
White Lightning (George Jones)
Who'll Stop the Rain (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Why Does It Always Rain On Me? (Travis)
Wild is the Wind (David Bowie)
Wild is the Wind (Johnny Mathis)
Wild is the Wind (George Michael: remake of one of the above?)
Wild Wild Sea (Sting)
Wind ('60s studio group featuring Tony Orlando)
Wind (Matt Musselman)
Windchase (Sebastian Hardie album)
Windsong (John Denver)
Wind and Whispers (Michael Jones album)
Wind Beneath my Wings (recorded by many artists)
Wind in the Lonely Fences (Harold Budd and Brian Eno)
Wind in the Willows (Blackmore's Night)
Wind in the Wire (Randy Travis)
Wind of Change (Peter Frampton)
Wind of Change (Scorpions)
Wind on the Water (Crosby and Nash)
Winds of Change (Jefferson Starship)
Winds of Change (Fleetwood Mac)
Windsongs (artist)
Windy (The Association)
Windy City (Peter White
Windy Days and Dusty Skies (Joe Carr and Alan Munde)
Windy Town (Chris Rea)
Words in the Wind (Timothy Craig))
Working in the Coal Mine (Lee Dorsey; Devo)
Written in (the) Sand (Santana)
You Look Like Rain (Morphine)
You Love the Thunder (Jackson Browne)
You Love The Thunder, I Love The Rain (Hank Williams Jr.)

WHY?

WHY???
 
Truths for your amusement...  (Author unknown.)
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Why do supermarkets make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?


Why do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a Diet Coke?


Why do banks leave vault doors open and then chain the pens to the counters?

Why do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in our driveways and put our useless junk in the garage?


EVER WONDER...Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?
Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?Why is it that doctors and attorneys call what they do 'practice'?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff??
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
If flying is so safe,why do they call the airport the terminal?
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(Editor's note: I actually do know the answers to some of these.  I will add one asked of me by an exchange student from South America while I was in college: he was still trying to learn the vagaries of English, and he asked me, "Why do they call them parties when they last the whole night long?"

Exercise Block

I need to walk around the block more often. 

(Author unknown, contributed by Linda Armour)

Real Persons' Names

Real Names Of Persons 

(Archived from the 1985 Usenet at this link) 

The following is a brief compilation of the real, honest-to-god names of
actual persons.

   Mr. Odor Funkhouse -- perfume shop owner in San Francisco.

   Sadie Longtimesleeping -- a Native American woman whose name first appeared
 in print in her obituary.

   The Rev. Walter J. Boring -- preacher in Santa Cruz County.

   Rotten Pumpkin -- later changed his name legally to Robert Pumpion.

   Mr. Cashmere Tango Obedience -- another Santa Cruz resident.  For many
 years his name was listed in the telephone book, but he had to take
 it out this year because he was getting too many crank calls.

   Frances Flex -- competitive female body builder, also of Santa Cruz.

   Wylie Crook -- Clerk of Retton, Washington, in 1944.  His successful
 campaign slogan was "Put a Wylie Crook in Office."

   Mr. Grimm -- professor at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science.

   Patience Scales -- a piano teacher from San Francisco.

   Carol Buttons of Winnipeg, Canada married a Mr. Bob Bows...

   Zippitydoo Dawe -- lives in Texas.  His father explained to the press,
 "If he doesn't like his name when he grows up, well then, he can
 just go change it."

And a few people from the medical profession:

   Dr. Pullum -- dentist in Taft, CA.

   Dr. Au (pronounced "ow!") -- physician in Newark, CA.

   Iodine Borzikacid -- pharmacist.

   Ida Tumor -- nurse in the cancer ward of a V.A. hospital.

   Dr. Seymour Polk -- gynecologist in Los Gatos, CA.

   Dr. Sugar -- dentist in Michigan.

   Dr. Smelzy -- Michigan podiatrist.

   Dr. Bonebreak -- chiropractor in Santa Cruz, CA.

   Fanny Hertz -- actual name of a hemmorhoid patient.

   Dr. Melvin Peabrain  -- physician in Modesto, CA.


Source: "Tom Gill Predicts," Volume VII, Number xx. 

(To which, Lewis Barnett, a Usenet user back in 1985 commented, "And then, there are Drs. Waters and Leake, partners in a Urology
practice somewhere in, I believe, South or North Carolina.  If I'm not mistaken, Dr. Waters is the brother of Charlie Waters, former
Dallas Cowboy."

Actual Patents

An old TOM GILL PREDICTS, preserved in an old archived USENET post

The following are actual items, devices and/or processes recently submitted
to the United States or British patent offices for patenting.

   AUTOMATIC TOILET-LID LOCK.  To prevent unauthorized access to the toilet
   bowl.  (U.S. Patent 3,477,070)

   WHISPER SEAT.  Toilet seat with acoustical liner which prevents sounds
   from being heard by other persons.  (U.S. Patent 3,593,345)

   COMBINATION DEER-CARCASS SLED AND CHAISE LOUNGE.  (U.S. Patent 3,580,592)

   EYEGLASS FRAME WITH ADJUSTIBLE REAR VIEW MIRRORS.  (U.S. Patent
   3,423,150)

   FLUID-STREAM-OPERATED ZIPPER.  For men.  (U.S. Patent 3,517,423)

   POWER-OPERATED POOL CUE STICK.  (U.S. Patent 3,495,826)

   CARRY-ALL HAT.  A hat with a cavity for carrying cosmetics, jewelry, and
   the like.  (U.S. Patent 3,495,575)

   SIMULATED FIREARM WITH PIVOTALLY MOUNTED WHISKY GLASS.  Pulling the
   trigger pivots the glass toward the wielder's mouth.  (U.S. Patent
   3,450,403)

   BABY-PATTING MACHINE.  Battery-powered device for putting a baby to sleep
   by means of periodic pats on the rump.  (U.S. Patent 3,552,388)

   ELECTRONIC SNORE DETECTOR.  Snores are detected and the snorer receives
   an electric shock.  (U.S. Patent 3,480,010)

   PHOTON PUSH-PULL RADIATION DETECTOR FOR USE IN CHROMATICALLY SELECTIVE
   CAT FLAP CONTROL AND 1,000 MEGATON, EARTH-ORBITAL PEACEKEEPING BOMB.
   (U.K.  Patent 1,426,698)  "To detect the difference in the colour of the
   fur on the back of a cat wishing to gain entrance to a house by means of
   a `chromatically selective cat flap,' to thus admit to the house a cat
   which has GINGER fur but not admit a cat which possesses BLACK fur; and
   to provide, in an Earth Orbital 1,000 Megaton Complete Disintegration or
   CND Bomb Automatic Reprisal Satellite Bomb, forming part of an Automatic
   Response Nuclear Deterrent System, or ARNDS System for short (as
   described in U.K. Patent No. 1,361,962, `MEANS FOR DETECTING WITH
   CERTAINTY WHETHER A NUCLEAR ATTACK HAS BEEN MADE.')"

   HEMMORHOID TREATMENT PREPARATION PRODUCED FROM HOT CHERRY PEPPERS.
   (U.S.  Patent 3,781,424)  "This new composition of matter, a soft solid
   residue of `Capsicum annum,' is intended for oral administration in
   various forms and prescribed doses to human beings suffering from
   hemmorhoids.  Hemmorhoids are not known to exist in other animals than
   humans, therefore it is intended as a hemmorhoidals remedy for the relief
   of hemmorhoids in mankind."


Source: "Tom Gill Predicts," Volume VII, Number xviii.

Funny photos! (the postscript)

FUNNY PHOTOS! (Thanks to Linda Armour for these. Photographers unknown.)