KENNY SARGENT & GLEN GRAY & THE CASA LOMA ORCHESTRA - RAIN ON THE ROOF

RAIN ON THE ROOF

KENNY SARGENT, VOCAL AND GLEN GRAY & THE CASA LOMA ORCHESTRA

SONGWRITER: ANN RONNELLI

COUNTRY: USA

ALBUM: GLEN GRAY CASA LOMA - RAIN ON THE ROOF

LABEL: BUNSWICK

GENRE: FOX TROT

YEAR: 1932

Ann Rosenblatt, known as Ann Ronell(December 28, 1906 or 1908—December 25, 1993) was an American composer and lyricist best known for the jazz standard "Willow Weep for Me" (1932).

Kenny Sargent(March 3, 1909 - December 20, 1969) was big band vocalist and saxophonist, primarily known for his work with the Casa Loma Orchestra in the 1930s and 40s.

Sargent was hired by Glen Gray of the Casa Loma Orchestra in the spring of 1931. He was the Casa Loma Orchestra's primary vocalist and a saxophonist in the late 1930s and early 40s. He had a smooth, high tenor singing voice. He recorded many popular ballads, including "It's the Talk of the Town", which was high on the national charts. Other popular songs he recorded are "Blue Moon", "City Called Heaven", "When I Grow Too Old to Dream". He performed the vocals in the first recording of the standard "You Go to My Head".

Sargent left the band in 1943 to begin a career as a disc jockey, first at WHHM in Memphis, Tennessee. He later was a well-known radio personality in the Dallas, Texas area at radio stations KLIF and WRR in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Casa Loma Orchestra was an American dance band active from 1929 to 1963. Until the rapid multiplication in the number of swing bands from 1935 on, the Casa Loma Orchestra was one of the top North American dance bands. With the decline of the big band business following the end of World War II, it disbanded in 1947. However, from 1957 to 1963, it re-emerged as a recording session band in Hollywood, made up of top-flight studio musicians under the direction of its most notable leader of the past, Glen Gray. The reconstituted band made a limited number appearances live and on television and recorded fifteen LP albums for Capitol Records before Gray died in 1963. 

You and me and rain on the roof,

Caught up in a summer shower,

Drying while it soaks the flowers.

Maybe we'll be caught for hours,

Waiting out the sun.

You and me, we're gabbing away

Dreamy conversation, sitting in the hay.

Honey, how long was I laughing in the rain with you?

Cause I didn't feel a drop til the thunder brought us to.

You and me underneath a roof of tin.

Pretty comfy feeling, how the rain ain't leaking in.

We can sit and dry just as long as it can pour.

Cause the way it makes you look makes me hope it rains some more.

You and me and rain on the roof,

Caught up in a summer shower.

Drying while it soaks the flowers

Maybe we'll be caught for hours,

Waiting out the sun.