The Gentle Rain
"The Gentle Rain" is a 1965 bossa nova composition by Luiz Bonfá, with lyrics by Matt Dubey. Originally written in A minor, this song was first released as part of the motion picture soundtrack of the 1966 film Gentle Rain (film)|The Gentle Rain] by the American director Burt Balaban. The music of the film was a collaboration of Luiz Bonfá as a composer and Eumir Deodato as orchestra arranger and director.
Other recorded versions
It has become a jazz standard recorded instrumental in the following albums:- 1965 Quincy Jones and His Orchestra on Quincy Plays for Pussycats.
- 1966 Scott Walker on "Solo John/Solo Scott"
- 1966 Ramsey Lewis on The Movie Album.
- 1967 Joe Pass on Simplicity.
- 1968 Jimmy Smith on Livin' it Up!
- 1969 George Shearing on The Fool on the Hill.
- 1971 George Benson on Beyond [the Blue Horizon].
- 1971 Oscar Peterson and The Singers Unlimited on In Tune.
- 1972 Art Farmer on Gentle Eyes.
- 1975 Toots Thielemans on Old Friend.
- 1978 Joe Pass and Paulinho da Costa on Tudo Bem!.
- 1979 Charlie Byrd on Sugarloaf Suite.
- 1989 Kenny Drew Trio on Recollections.
- 1991 Akio Sasajima and Ron Carter on Akioustically Sound.
- 2002 Joe Beck Trio on Just Friends
- 2003 John Etheridge on Chasing Shadows.
- 2008 Ron Thomas and Paul Klinefelter on Blues for Zarathustra.
- 2018 Houston Person and Ron Carter on Remember Love
Lynda Day George, who made her screen debut in the film in which "The Gentle Rain" first appeared, sings the song in a 1972 episode of Mission: Impossible, "Trapped". It was also played at the funeral of Irish guitarist Louis Stewart in 2016 in the presence of the president of the Irish Republic but misattributed to a non-Brazilian composer in the Irish Times obituary.