{"id":4288,"date":"2007-10-18T12:05:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/its-gonna-rain\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:46:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:46:22","slug":"its-gonna-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2007\/10\/its-gonna-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Gonna Rain and the Sun Isn\u2019t Coming Back&#8230;Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube Master Tyler posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jw2_rOzB12U\">a link to Sonny &amp; Cher singing &quot;It&#8217;s Gonna Rain&quot;<\/a> &#8212; consider that this was going to be their first single if Ahmet Ertegun had won the first-single fight with Sonny. This video brings up these thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s interesting to me that Sonny would write a song like this living in a city where it never rains. <\/li>\n<li>Sonny is terrible at lip syncing, worse than Britney. <\/li>\n<li>This is the only part of the movie <em>Wild on the Beach<\/em> you ever need see. <\/li>\n<li>You wouldn\u2019t break a sweat dancing like Sonny &amp; Cher. It\u2019s a dance that says I\u2019m groovy yet bored. <\/li>\n<li>That woman dancing in her chair \u2013 too funny. I\u2019m gonna try that out the next time I hit the clubs. Because I like dancing. 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