This song bring me back to 1977, Okinawa, Japan, I was a U.S. Marine stationed there at Camp Hansen. after many deployments and back to camp, I would go into Kin Village and hit the local bars, Karaoke was big there and my first karaoke song I picked to sing was this song. I was from Huntington Beach Ca. I still sing this song at my local karaoke club 40 years later.
I drove to LA in 1974 seeking my future, so this song hits home. Things worked out well, but things weren't easy at first. Often heard this song on the car radio when driving LA freeways. Today I am living in south Florida and enjoying it. Still, going to LA was worth it.
For sure. For many it ends in failure, others success, or something in between. California has always been a magnet for dreamers, less so today than years ago. For me it was the entertainment business, landing with Disney in the 70's, right out of collage. Though I didn't stay in LA, I have a fondness for it. Now it's a great place to visit but I would want to live there. But in 1974, it was everything I imagined it to be. No regrets.
I remember standing in the liquor store parking lot in So. Cal. in 72/73 pimping beer and this song going through my head. It was POURING rain!!! LOL!!
I'm an English teacher and my pupil couldn't pronounce the word "southern" . This song popped into my head and i just had to play it to her. Brilliant song, I love it. And I was born in 1972 ...
I was born in 1973, but my first memories of life was in 1976. I only remember bits and pieces of this decade, but what I do remember is that everything had a groovy, laid back feeling to it all. This song is a prime example of that.
I came to California in 1973 as a 20 yr boy and lived there till end of 1990 ... I get depressed thinking about all that now that i am 68 and living in Texas
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This popped up in my algorithm while I worked on my laptop seated in the wait area as onboarding passengers queued up to pass thru TSA security in the Fresno California airport a couple weeks ago. There must've been over a hundred ppl started moving to the music, some w/smiles spreading across their face, some w/distant gazes, others w/eyes welling up and...one w/tears streaming down his cheeks. We had ourselves a moment spanning at least five generations. Many stopped to thank me, including a 14 y/o young woman who said it was one of her all time favorites even though she wouldn't be born for another 17 years after it was written.
There are songs you here today where you get sick of them after a week ....... I've heard this song since i was 8 yrs old when my mother used to sing along with it on the radio ..... after all these years I still love this song more than ever.
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This song popped into my head in the shower today while thinking of the torrential rains the last 2 or 3 months and now snow in California. Started singing and had to see the lyrics.
I definitely associate this song with 1972. I had just settled in Southern California, and all radios were playing it non-stop! Impossible not to feel the nostalgia of these past times....
@@tomevans4402 Depends on where one was at in 1972. Our amphibious force and our ship had just returned from Vietnam after the Easter Offensive and the song came out. Truly however, the rest of '72 was good and I was thankful to be back in "southern California."
I love this song, especially its chorus. Across all his work, Albert Hammond is just a brilliant songwriter. One of the benefits of RUclips is that its easier to dig up stuff from before your time (almost before my parents' too!).
I played this the other day and my dad said it brought back happy memories of when he was growing up. He said it was simpler times and happy times with his parents and family.
Christine Wolf good song so many things people who don't know it's a great time listening to the feeling of the season N more than that Happy days are right now again
it's always happier times when we think of our youth, no matter when that was. For me it was the nifty 50s. For my dad, it was the Roaring 20s. And on and on it goes.
Yes , this is a beautiful son from the 70’s , it reminds me of those years of childhood, very different for what we are living now in the whole world August 31/2021 from USA
One of the lost ironies of this song is it was released during one of the wettest rainy seasons I have ever been through here in Southern California. That covers almost 77 years. We all got a big laugh out of that
The first time I heard this song I did not know a word in English and I loved it, now that I understand English I realize what a wonderful song it is and I love it even more.
Love this song and the sentiment that it stirs up, but I’m trying to live in the now. Left social media because all of the negativity and try to connect with people. I’m sick of seeing people staring at their phones while they ignore the world around. Remember, these are the good old days. Recognize and appreciate your past for all the good and bad. The life lessons but, live in the NOW because it’s all we have ✌️❤️🎸🎹🎼
I can recall listening to this song in 1973 on a table counter radio in the kitchen with my mother cooking, my brother was in the army and loved this song, every time I hear it I think of him and my mother crying because she knew it was his favorite song.
Great song, lived in Orange Cty, 72-74 and that song on radio as often as Baker Street and Good Time Charly !! At 17 seconds, that's not a westbound 747-WUWT ?? - no bump for 2nf floor at front.. looks like an old 707 ...
In many ways this song is a reflection on a small part of my life. In 1974 I left college and headed to LA to get a job in the TV/Film business. I beat the streets and almost gave up and nearly ran out of money before I landed a position at a major studio. LA was both the best and worst, at the same time. I would go running in Beverly Hills, crew on a nice sailboat out of Marina Del Rey, and be a frequent house guest in Palm Springs all while hating the smog and traffic. Love this song because it is true to many who do the same.
I was born and raised in Burbank and you describe the place perfectly. California is both the best place to live and the worst at times. One thing that no one can argue though is it is the most unique place that I have ever lived.
THE GOOD OLD TIME MUSIC! THIS SONG IS TOP FOR ME. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST YEARS OF MEMORIES IN MY LIFE AND THE MUSIC WAS AWESOME. I COULD GO BACK TO THE THOSE YEAR.LOTS OF HAPPY MEMORIES. GREETINGS FROM BULGARIA 🇧🇬
This is really one of the best songs ever written. And the way it's done... It's just perfect. I wonder if Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood knew what perfection they were creating when they wrote this song.
Lived there for about 3 years, and Damn well it rains etc. Love 2 CA, USA. Karita. ♡ ♡ 2 Marty Lipsey, snooring doc w Clinic which I START -DID, Karita.
Live in Hollywood and dreamed of being a songwriter...moved back to NorCal (we just have wildfires, avalanches) and ended up being an author of books, novels. Dreams can come to fruition anywhere. The rain? Now our shaky state may experience more quakes...ground is saturated.
I really have to stop this, I keep on listening to these amazing songs from my youth, days I know I will never have again but if I am honest I would trade everything I have to have them back. I cannot handle the nostalgia anymore too painful
I was five years old when this came out. I remember listening to this on a clock radio! Great song with meaning unlike so much of today's so called music.
First record I ever got. Made my mother drive me all over Cleveland to find the 45. Had to be about 8 years old. Still sounds great!!!! Cheers everyone cheers
Oh man does this bring back memories, teenager in high school, much simpler times than today. In some ways I wish I could go back and keep enjoying the early 70s. Absolutely loved and still love this song! Thanks for putting up the lyrics and song!
My Gentle Pitt Bull i am working as fast as i can on my time machine. i will let you know as soon as i get working . i am going to set it for the 60,s i had a lot of fun "growing up" in Southern California back then. man i sure do miss those days.
It reminded me of living in Northern California and watching the Los Angeles Rams playing in their home game and it was raining there in November back in 1972.
Got on board a westbound 747 Didn't think before deciding what to do Oh, that talk of opportunities, TV breaks and movies Rang true, sure rang true Seems it never rains in southern California Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before It never rains in California But girl, don't they warn ya? It pours, man, it pours Out of work, I'm out of my head Out of self respect, I'm out of bread I'm underloved, I'm underfed I wanna go home It never rains in California But girl, don't they warn ya? It pours, man, it pours Will you tell the folks back home I nearly made it? Had offers but don't know which one to take Please don't tell 'em how you found me Don't tell 'em how you found me Gimme a break, give me a break Seems it never rains in southern California Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before It never rains in California But girl, don't they warn ya? It pours, man, it pours
If you have never seen the documentary " The wrecking crew" , I recommend you do if you love the music from the 60sand 70s. They played on so many hits its unbelievable, so many great artists, I watch it over and over
I lived in the Huntington Beach area from 1978-1994.I didn't like the heat or sunny days like most do.My old house didn't have A C and my old condo was closer to the beach so it was much cooler.I really loved it when it did rain.I feel for the folks there yesterday.Some areas hit 114!
Wow, lived in the Bay Area (Tracy) when this came out. I'm 62 now so nearly 50 years ago. Summers on the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz and with my cousins in San Jose/Coopertino. What I would give to relive those days and know what I know now.
OH, the sad memories of that song. My buddy and I had just returned from Vietnam when the song came out. Jimmy Jack was from El Centro California and it became his favorite song. Tragically, he was killed in a car wreck about a month later.
When I was watching the Los Angeles Rams playing an NFL game back in 1973 broadcasted from Olympic stadium there in southern california at home in Lodi California, it was raining hard during that game for the Rams in December on that game, this song popped into my mind during most of the game.
mom liked so much this song at 1970s.i listen again and feel my mom closer than 70s near to me then i enjoy deepest of my soul , seems it never will end this song. blessings Historicus Joe.
I just wonder if our children will remember their youth in quite the same way we did . Life was much more straight forward . Left school and started work at 15 yrs
What is any less straightforward about life today? Perhaps you've found that as you get older, your responsibilities increase and life becomes trickier?
Thanks for lyrics. Really it seems never rains in California, but don't they warn you about...so be careful. Special message to false opportunities. Very emotional song, and emotional women there. Saludos desde Barcelona.
Do you realize that the song is about how poorly California treats the young and hopeful? It was true then, it is true now. Crime and violence ran rampant, terrorism reached peaks that haven't yet been matched, and hard drugs flooded the streets. If you don't remember any of that, congratulations on being a child/clueless teen during the seventies. That said, I'd do anything to go back to that time. Don't Disneyfy it. Accept the bad along with the good.
@@BenDover-rq6zf Actually violent crime and murderer have been declining since then, one theory suggests that with the mainly with pill but also abortions there were few unwanted , un-cared for children so there was a better overall lives and less delinquency.
@@paladro You can say that, you can say the earth is flat. But I have the statistics that back my point up what do you have? For a working class woman that has a child early and becomes a single mother the chances of her creating a stable home life in the US are very low. Following abortions many women have the chance to create an stable home life and then go on to have more children who they can support. Of course in Europe where there is less religion and more social care then single mothers are supported a lot more. Sweden has far more sex education, far better social supports and far lower teen pregnancy rates. These things are all linked. Do you have any actual evidence or do you just say things?
December 1982. I’m at Logan Airport in Boston on my way to LAX to go to infantry school at Camp Pendleton. It’s 22 degrees out and snowing. 8 hours later I walk out of LAX and it’s 70 degrees and sunny. Nuff said
There is something so different about Texas, West and Central Florida, Midwest USA , Southern California, True South and Upstate Florida / Upstate NY people.. Many of you are precious Earth Angels.. So many of us in society have forgotten common decency
Hello everyone from Sweden! I wonder why you keep looking for oldies to listen to? If you close your eyes at the same time, all the pictures come out in front of your eyes. Carefree perhaps compared to today's world?!
Lived in San Diego till I was 14. Moved at '81 to Phoenix. Still go back to visit from time to time, but boy such fond memories. Especially growing up listening to songs like this. Thanks for posting 😊
This song bring me back to 1977, Okinawa, Japan, I was a U.S. Marine stationed there at Camp Hansen. after many deployments and back to camp, I would go into Kin Village and hit the local bars, Karaoke was big there and my first karaoke song I picked to sing was this song. I was from Huntington Beach Ca. I still sing this song at my local karaoke club 40 years later.
I miss the 1970's. I'm 55 yet I still wish it was 1972 or even 1974. These were happy times with my family, & the music was the best.
I like all kinds of music. But, if I HAD to pick ten years, it would be 65-75
Couldn't agree more Willyjames!
I drove to LA in 1974 seeking my future, so this song hits home. Things worked out well, but things weren't easy at first. Often heard this song on the car radio when driving LA freeways. Today I am living in south Florida and enjoying it. Still, going to LA was worth it.
This song proves Dreams don't always come true
For sure. For many it ends in failure, others success, or something in between. California has always been a magnet for dreamers, less so today than years ago. For me it was the entertainment business, landing with Disney in the 70's, right out of collage. Though I didn't stay in LA, I have a fondness for it. Now it's a great place to visit but I would want to live there. But in 1974, it was everything I imagined it to be. No regrets.
LA is Tinsle Town forever. Climate is great and wilderness areas, what is left are beautiful. Overpopulation ruined it.
Between the idea and the reality falls the SHADOW!😮
I remember standing in the liquor store parking lot in So. Cal. in 72/73 pimping beer and this song going through my head. It was POURING rain!!! LOL!!
I'm an English teacher and my pupil couldn't pronounce the word "southern" . This song popped into my head and i just had to play it to her. Brilliant song, I love it. And I was born in 1972 ...
I was born in 1973, but my first memories of life was in 1976. I only remember bits and pieces of this decade, but what I do remember is that everything had a groovy, laid back feeling to it all. This song is a prime example of that.
The 70s were magical.
It does at that looking back...but not back then in real time.
You were 3 to 7. Of course it had a groovy feeling.
I came to California in 1973 as a 20 yr boy and lived there till end of 1990 ... I get depressed thinking about all that now that i am 68 and living in Texas
There will never be another time like the 70s.....it is to bad these young people missed such a wonderful time in life.
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I am getting much older now, love this song since my High School years, a time with a point of no return........
GREAT SONGS,
GREAT MEMORIES. GREETINGS FROM BULGARIA 🇧🇬
Yes me to. Damn beautiful music. Peace and love
Same. Spent a summer in Southern California at 16. That was enough. This song ran through my head on a loop.
THANKS !!! LETS GET THIS DISPENSATION OVER WITH SO WE CAN TIME TRAVEL BACK TO 70s..... 🎉😊😊
''''thank you'''''my favorite song'''''and you produced it on my ''''birthday''''' july 3 1965'''''your the producer''''''
I'm only 13, but I'm so glad I listened to this. I have to be honest, the older songs are the best.
Same
Honesty takes You a Long Way 2020 !
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@@rosswimhurst Have You heard of The NIGHTWISH Band ?
The girl sitting on the beach with the sunglasses is the embodiment of this song😊
That is so true!
Awesome song ! Another American Great ! Loved American 60,70 ,80s The best years for hit songs . Brilliance .
I was born in the 60s and listen to this music my whole life..still alive and kicking
ME TOO !!! 🎉😊❤
This popped up in my algorithm while I worked on my laptop seated in the wait area as onboarding passengers queued up to pass thru TSA security in the Fresno California airport a couple weeks ago. There must've been over a hundred ppl started moving to the music, some w/smiles spreading across their face, some w/distant gazes, others w/eyes welling up and...one w/tears streaming down his cheeks. We had ourselves a moment spanning at least five generations. Many stopped to thank me, including a 14 y/o young woman who said it was one of her all time favorites even though she wouldn't be born for another 17 years after it was written.
There are songs you here today where you get sick of them after a week ....... I've heard this song since i was 8 yrs old when my mother used to sing along with it on the radio ..... after all these years I still love this song more than ever.
Relaxing to this beautiful song here in Australia 🇦🇺 trying to get through this lockdown cheers to all
✨ well, Thanks&Cheers ✌.😀.🍻 ;) ... and 'hope Ya got "Rain" for enough "Down-Under" - keep fit'n'well! ✨
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This song popped into my head in the shower today while thinking of the torrential rains the last 2 or 3 months and now snow in California. Started singing and had to see the lyrics.
This tune is my Gramp's kind of music yet here I am listening to it again.
I definitely associate this song with 1972. I had just settled in Southern California, and all radios were playing it non-stop! Impossible not to feel the nostalgia of these past times....
Damn 72 was great. Peace and love
@@tomevans4402 Depends on where one was at in 1972. Our amphibious force and our ship had just returned from Vietnam after the Easter Offensive and the song came out. Truly however, the rest of '72 was good and I was thankful to be back in "southern California."
Hopefully, the metaphor proved true for you, and it never rained. Now days many find that it pours.
I love this song, especially its chorus. Across all his work, Albert Hammond is just a brilliant songwriter. One of the benefits of RUclips is that its easier to dig up stuff from before your time (almost before my parents' too!).
I played this the other day and my dad said it brought back happy memories of when he was growing up. He said it was simpler times and happy times with his parents and family.
Christine Wolf this song did the trick I guess
Christine Wolf good song so many things people who don't know it's a great time listening to the feeling of the season N more than that Happy days are right now again
Christine Wolf 1972 magic year
I agree with your father, we used to play this song in my high school band.
it's always happier times when we think of our youth, no matter when that was. For me it was the nifty 50s. For my dad, it was the Roaring 20s. And on and on it goes.
I love this song. And getting to see the Hollywood sign.. so iconic. I actually find myself wanting to go back.
I was born in 64 such a magical time with the music of my era, love it
Same here. We took a lot of road trips from San Francisco to Southern California in the 70’s so my memories of this song are highways and L.A.
The best graphics by far w/lyrics. Poignant, 😢, sad yet hopeful?
God how lucky I was to grow up back when this type of music ruled the radio!!!
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why
no doubt
Yes , this is a beautiful son from the 70’s , it reminds me of those years of childhood, very different for what we are living now in the whole world August 31/2021 from USA
What an amazing song and it brings back so many of the 70s. The good days.
One of the lost ironies of this song is it was released during one of the wettest rainy seasons I have ever been through here in Southern California. That covers almost 77 years. We all got a big laugh out of that
The first time I heard this song I did not know a word in English and I loved it, now that I understand English I realize what a wonderful song it is and I love it even more.
Super song... brings back Memories..😀
Albert is an English lad who travels to America early in Honduras s youth. This song is we could say his master piece. Great writer and composer
I Remember how it was in California!!!
Love this song and the sentiment that it stirs up, but I’m trying to live in the now. Left social media because all of the negativity and try to connect with people. I’m sick of seeing people staring at their phones while they ignore the world around. Remember, these are the good old days. Recognize and appreciate your past for all the good and bad. The life lessons but, live in the NOW because it’s all we have ✌️❤️🎸🎹🎼
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I am from Gibraltar just like Albert , went to California in 1992 but did not have the success that Albert had LOL, Long life to you Albert !!!!!!!!
I can recall listening to this song in 1973 on a table counter radio in the kitchen with my mother cooking, my brother was in the army and loved this song, every time I hear it I think of him and my mother crying because she knew it was his favorite song.
I have always loved this song. The road to Hollywood is paved with broken hearts
Great song, lived in Orange Cty, 72-74 and that song on radio as often as Baker Street and Good Time Charly !! At 17 seconds, that's not a westbound 747-WUWT ?? - no bump for 2nf floor at front.. looks like an old 707 ...
In many ways this song is a reflection on a small part of my life. In 1974 I left college and headed to LA to get a job in the TV/Film business. I beat the streets and almost gave up and nearly ran out of money before I landed a position at a major studio. LA was both the best and worst, at the same time. I would go running in Beverly Hills, crew on a nice sailboat out of Marina Del Rey, and be a frequent house guest in Palm Springs all while hating the smog and traffic. Love this song because it is true to many who do the same.
I was born and raised in Burbank and you describe the place perfectly. California is both the best place to live and the worst at times. One thing that no one can argue though is it is the most unique place that I have ever lived.
One of my favorite songs from back then. Loved the woman with the hint of a smile, relaxing on the beach.
Yep one good tune here from Mr Hammond 👍.
A Mona Lot mystique.
She was smiling? I didn't notice.
THE GOOD OLD TIME MUSIC! THIS SONG IS TOP FOR ME.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST YEARS OF MEMORIES IN MY LIFE AND THE MUSIC WAS AWESOME.
I COULD GO BACK TO THE THOSE YEAR.LOTS OF HAPPY MEMORIES. GREETINGS FROM BULGARIA 🇧🇬
This is really one of the best songs ever written. And the way it's done... It's just perfect. I wonder if Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood knew what perfection they were creating when they wrote this song.
Chris Malan yes its perfection love it what a great comment enjoy enjoy Chris !!!
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"Make Me An Island"-Joe Dolan...A.Hammond&M.Hazlewood
Lived there for about 3 years, and Damn well it rains etc. Love 2 CA, USA. Karita. ♡ ♡ 2 Marty Lipsey, snooring doc w Clinic which I START -DID, Karita.
So pretty love 70
I wish it was 1972 again. It was great to be alive. Today's world inhales deeply.
life had a sparkle it was different altogether .just wont be the same ever ever again ..
Unfortunately you are correct. It was the best of times.
I was a little girl when this hit the radio. Turning 60 in 5 short days. Still love it!
Longtime fave. Brings back good memories,inspire of ominous foreshadowing.
I love this song. Takes me back to the beach and teens. Some of my best years with family and friends.
Live in Hollywood and dreamed of being a songwriter...moved back to NorCal (we just have wildfires, avalanches) and ended up being an author of books, novels. Dreams can come to fruition anywhere. The rain? Now our shaky state may experience more quakes...ground is saturated.
I really have to stop this, I keep on listening to these amazing songs from my youth, days I know I will never have again but if I am honest I would trade everything I have to have them back. I cannot handle the nostalgia anymore too painful
Mm, copy that.
GREAT SONGS
GREAT MEMORIES. GREETINGS FROM BULGARIA 🇧🇬
Great vid...Awesome song❤🎙️🎶🎵
I was five years old when this came out. I remember listening to this on a clock radio! Great song with meaning unlike so much of today's so called music.
I can never stop loving this song!
They told my falks that i REALY MADE IT ❤😊❤😊❤😊
First record I ever got. Made my mother drive me all over Cleveland to find the 45. Had to be about 8 years old. Still sounds great!!!! Cheers everyone cheers
my mom and i would listen to this and shed say mike i like some of your music she passed 15 years ago today mom i love you
Mike Gonzales I’m so sorry,my mom just passed away two weeks ago.but at least you can listen to music she liked and the memories r with u forever
Kinda like my mom Mike, and one of the songs besides this one, was Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks. May they both rip. :)
Time takes some of the pain away, and the memories kick in, think the good ones.
Mike:
That's beautiful Mike!
@@zaradimple3980
Great Theresa !👍
Oh man does this bring back memories, teenager in high school, much simpler times than today. In some ways I wish I could go back and keep enjoying the early 70s. Absolutely loved and still love this song! Thanks for putting up the lyrics and song!
UncleEarl97 sounds like we are about the same age, I'd go back to the 70s and stay there. Know anyone who has a time machine?
My Gentle Pitt Bull i am working as fast as i can on my time machine. i will let you know as soon as i get working . i am going to set it for the 60,s i had a lot of fun "growing up" in Southern California back then. man i sure do miss those days.
It reminded me of living in Northern California and watching the Los Angeles Rams playing in their home game and it was raining there in November back in 1972.
That is one trip I would happily make.
@@usmc-veteran73-77 hell I would to man. Graduated 81 but man love these old songs. We had some good ones in the mid upper 70s
If we could go back to those days the world would be a better place
Got on board a westbound 747
Didn't think before deciding what to do
Oh, that talk of opportunities, TV breaks and movies
Rang true, sure rang true
Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours
Out of work, I'm out of my head
Out of self respect, I'm out of bread
I'm underloved, I'm underfed
I wanna go home
It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours
Will you tell the folks back home I nearly made it?
Had offers but don't know which one to take
Please don't tell 'em how you found me
Don't tell 'em how you found me
Gimme a break, give me a break
Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours
THANKS ❤🎉😊
I love my Beautiful friend @Dianna!!!
If you have never seen the documentary " The wrecking crew" , I recommend you do if you love the music from the 60sand 70s. They played on so many hits its unbelievable, so many great artists, I watch it over and over
I lived in the Huntington Beach area from 1978-1994.I didn't like the heat or sunny days like most do.My old house didn't have A C and my old condo was closer to the beach so it was much cooler.I really loved it when it did rain.I feel for the folks there yesterday.Some areas hit 114!
I get nostalgic goosebumps hearing this song..oh!! The 70s..!
當我聽住這首歌（南加州從不下雨）時，我在1983年3月份都去個加尼福尼亞州2個禮拜。這首歌果陣時都存在，你話時間得真快？路發❤❤
Beautiful melody!
Wow, lived in the Bay Area (Tracy) when this came out. I'm 62 now so nearly 50 years ago. Summers on the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz and with my cousins in San Jose/Coopertino. What I would give to relive those days and know what I know now.
Great awesome song love this song when I was a kid I played it over and over on my 45 record on my record player those were the good old days
Excellent job! Thank you.
I grew up in Santa Barbara California until 1970 then I moved to Phoenix Arizona I was 14. This brings back so many good feelings and memories
OH, the sad memories of that song. My buddy and I had just returned from Vietnam when the song came out. Jimmy Jack was from El Centro California and it became his favorite song. Tragically, he was killed in a car wreck about a month later.
jimmy baker survived Vietnam but killed in a car crash what a sad waste
Sorry for your friend
Sorry about your friend. Thank you for your service though. Vietnam vets don't get enough appreciation.
🙏🙏
What a bitch,to be killed right after getting back from that useless Hell Hole...............
This is such a great old song !
This is a good song. That reminds me of the old days 🎶😜😁
When I was watching the Los Angeles Rams playing an NFL game back in 1973 broadcasted from Olympic stadium there in southern california at home in Lodi California, it was raining hard during that game for the Rams in December on that game, this song popped into my mind during most of the game.
This is the song that makes me and breaks me so much joy and heartache California gave me
never get bore of listening to this song, great memories in the 70’S
This song makes me nostalgic for time period I never lived in.
Loved this when it first came out in the seventies ... still love it now
Hello from Berlin, Germany, have been there a couple of times and - one night it did rain, yippie 😍👍💃
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mom liked so much this song at 1970s.i listen again and feel my mom closer than 70s near to me then i enjoy deepest of my soul , seems it never will end this song. blessings Historicus Joe.
this song bring me beautiful memory of the seventies Oslo 71 whit a beautiful girl from Finland, thanks for that lovely song!!
I just wonder if our children will remember their youth in quite the same way we did . Life was much more straight forward .
Left school and started work at 15 yrs
The future seemed straight forward as well; make things better. That hasn't worked out to be the case in so many ways.
What is any less straightforward about life today? Perhaps you've found that as you get older, your responsibilities increase and life becomes trickier?
Thanks for lyrics. Really it seems never rains in California, but don't they warn you about...so be careful. Special message to false opportunities. Very emotional song, and emotional women there. Saludos desde Barcelona.
This song bring back memories it's was more laid back during this time more caring for each other
Do you realize that the song is about how poorly California treats the young and hopeful? It was true then, it is true now.
Crime and violence ran rampant, terrorism reached peaks that haven't yet been matched, and hard drugs flooded the streets. If you don't remember any of that, congratulations on being a child/clueless teen during the seventies.
That said, I'd do anything to go back to that time. Don't Disneyfy it. Accept the bad along with the good.
We did not seriously start killing children until 1972
@@BenDover-rq6zf Actually violent crime and murderer have been declining since then, one theory suggests that with the mainly with pill but also abortions there were few unwanted , un-cared for children so there was a better overall lives and less delinquency.
@@chrisyoung5929 some people say... what nonsesne.
@@paladro You can say that, you can say the earth is flat. But I have the statistics that back my point up what do you have? For a working class woman that has a child early and becomes a single mother the chances of her creating a stable home life in the US are very low. Following abortions many women have the chance to create an stable home life and then go on to have more children who they can support. Of course in Europe where there is less religion and more social care then single mothers are supported a lot more. Sweden has far more sex education, far better social supports and far lower teen pregnancy rates. These things are all linked. Do you have any actual evidence or do you just say things?
December 1982. I’m at Logan Airport in Boston on my way to LAX to go to infantry school at Camp Pendleton. It’s 22 degrees out and snowing. 8 hours later I walk out of LAX and it’s 70 degrees and sunny. Nuff said
I was 17 and a senior in high school back in the fall of '72, when this song came out. Living in rural Nebraska. Dreamin' of California.
Where in NE.?
There is something so different about Texas, West and Central Florida, Midwest USA , Southern California, True South and Upstate Florida / Upstate NY people..
Many of you are precious Earth Angels..
So many of us in society have forgotten common decency
When I was young I thought this was about the weather. Now I know what this song is talking about and it sure rings true.
I was born in West Covina in 1963
Moved to Redding Ca. I’m now an idahoan . Proud of both
Go dodgers!!
Sweet, sad and dreamlike song! Love it!
Such a beautiful song❤❤😊😊
Pure magic... Carry me away too...just make sure it's to the 70's and California!
Beautiful nostalgic song
A classic, thank you. Wonderful memories.
Hello everyone from Sweden! I wonder why you keep looking for oldies to listen to? If you close your eyes at the same time, all the pictures come out in front of your eyes. Carefree perhaps compared to today's world?!
Never tire of this one...
Havn't heard this song in years. Australian grown, never seen California so if I get to visit, I won't need my umbrella!!
one of my favorites when I was a teen in 1970s
one of the best singers and song writer of my lifetime if not of all times.
Beautiful weather and city, San Diego is
...! My two best friends live there! Hi you two! ❤️🎵🎤🎸🎹
That one of your friends @ 50:?! Very demure, you know....
Lived in San Diego till I was 14. Moved at '81 to Phoenix. Still go back to visit from time to time, but boy such fond memories. Especially growing up listening to songs like this. Thanks for posting 😊
Well bring your tail to southern Mississippi. We get more rainfall here than anywhere in the US. Last weekend it rained 9 inches in less than 6 hours.
Back when we had good music and California was much different. Love this song
I was in college when this hit the charts. It is forever embedded in my mind.
My PTSD is also embedded in my mind forever !
@@謝紘一 Huh?