Stand a Little Rain

"Stand a Little Rain" is a song written by Donny Lowery and Don Schlitz, and recorded by American country music group Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was released in June 1986 as the first single from their compilation album Twenty Years of Dirt. The song reached number 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and number 3 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.^[1]

Critical reception

Kip Kirby, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that the band "delivers a slow, melancholy descant on the strengthening power of adversity." He goes on to call it a "change of pace from their whimsical, 'Partners, Brothers and Friends'.^[2]

In popular culture

During April 1992, the song was referenced by George H. W. Bush at a country music awards ceremony in Nashville:

"I said to them, you know, there's another one that the Nitty Ditty, Nitty City Great -- [laughter] -- that they did, and it says, "If you want to see a rainbow, you've got to stand a little rain." We've had a little rain. New Hampshire has had too much rain. A lot of families are hurting."^[3]

This mangling of the band's name was repeatedly used as an example of Bush's garbled syntax and frequent malapropisms (notably, in Dave Barry's book Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway), which in turn helped publicize the band.

Chart performance

"Stand a Little Rain" debuted at number 61 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of June 21, 1986.

Chart (1986)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[4]	5
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	3

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 249.
^ Billboard, June 7, 1986
^ Remarks to Liberty Mutual Insurance Employees in Dover: January 15, 1992
^ "The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

v t e Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Jeff Hanna Ross Holmes Jim Photoglo Jackson Browne Chris Darrow Jimmy Ibbotson Bernie Leadon John McEuen
Studio albums	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Ricochet Rare Junk Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy All the Good Times Stars & Stripes Forever Symphonion Dream The Dirt Band An American Dream Make a Little Magic Jealousy Let's Go Plain Dirt Fashion Partners, Brothers and Friends Hold On Workin' Band The Rest of the Dream Not Fade Away Acoustic The Christmas Album Bang, Bang, Bang Welcome to Woody Creek Speed of Life
Collaboration albums	Will the Circle Be Unbroken Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume III
Live albums	Alive Live Two Five
Compilation albums	Dirt, Silver and Gold Twenty Years of Dirt More Great Dirt
Singles	"Mr. Bojangles" "House at Pooh Corner" "I Saw the Light" "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" "The Battle of New Orleans" "All I Have to Do Is Dream" "An American Dream" "Dance Little Jean" "Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)" "I Love Only You" "High Horse" "Modern Day Romance" "Home Again in My Heart" "Partners, Brothers and Friends" "Fire in the Sky" "Baby's Got a Hold on Me" "Fishin' in the Dark" "Oh What a Love" "Workin' Man (Nowhere to Go)" "I've Been Lookin'" "Down That Road Tonight" "Turn of the Century" "And So It Goes" "When It's Gone" "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)" "I Fought the Law"
Other songs	"King Tut" "Joe Knows How to Live" "Bless the Broken Road"
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