<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> <P> "It Might as Well Rain Until September" is a 1962 song originally written for Bobby Vee by Carole King and Gerry Goffin . King recorded the demo version of the song and it became a hit for her . However, Vee's management baulked at releasing the song as a single, instead using it only as an album track . Bobby Vee recorded the song the same year for his 1963 Liberty album The Night Has a Thousand Eyes . </P> <P> The song was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin and intended for Bobby Vee, for whom they had already written the song "Take Good Care of My Baby", a number one hit in the United States in 1961 and which remains Vee's biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 . King recorded the demo version of the song and this version was released as a double A-side single with "Nobody's Perfect". Although she had recorded earlier for ABC - Paramount and Alpine Records,'...September' was Carole King's first commercial success as a singer, having already had a number of hits as a songwriter . The recording was only ever intended as a demo, and as such there is no master tape, only an acetate . This is the reason why all digital releases of this recording are of inferior quality compared to other songs of this era . However, Don Kirshner liked Carole King's version of "September" so much that even after hearing Bobby Vee's version, he decided to release King's version as a single on the Dimension label . Carole King had two small children and did not have any interest in traveling the country to promote the record . Despite this, Carole King was ultimately persuaded by Don Kirshner and Gerry Goffin to appear on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, where King lip - synched to the record (as was almost always done on the show) and, unlike many other performers who were given good ratings, was given a terrible rating of a 42 out of 100 by the Bandstand kids . While King was devastated by the terribly - rated performance, the song still became popular . </P>

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