<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> "I Can't Stand the Rain" (1978) </Td> <Td> "Leave a Light" (1978) </Td> </Tr> <P> "I Can't Stand the Rain" is a song originally recorded by Ann Peebles in 1973, and written by Peebles, Don Bryant, and Bernard "Bernie" Miller . Other hit versions were later recorded by Eruption and Tina Turner . </P> <P> The song was written by Peebles, her partner (and later husband) Don Bryant, and DJ Bernard "Bernie" Miller in 1973: </P> <P> One evening in Memphis in 1973, soul singer Ann Peebles was meeting friends, including her partner, Hi Records staff writer Don Bryant, to go to a concert . Just as they were about to set off, the heavens opened and Peebles snapped: "I can't stand the rain ." As a professional songwriter in constant need of new material, Bryant was used to plucking resonant phrases out of the air and he liked the idea of reacting against recent R&B hits that celebrated bad weather, such as the Dramatics' "In the Rain" and Love Unlimited's "Walkin' in the Rain with the One I Love". So he sat down at the piano and started riffing on the theme, weaving in ideas from Peebles and local DJ Bernie Miller . The song was finished that night and presented the next morning to Hi's studio maestro, Willie Mitchell, who used a brand new gadget, the electric timbale, to create the song's distinctive raindrop riff . It really was that easy . "We didn't go to the concert," Bryant remembers . "We forgot about the concert ." </P>

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