James Taylor - Rainy Day Man (BBC In Concert, 11/16/1970)
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- In this restored footage of "James Taylor In Concert," James performs "Rainy Day Man" on the popular BBC series "In Concert" on November 16, 1970.
"In Concert" was produced by the BBC in the early '70s and featured performances from legendary acts of the time. In November 1970, James was 22 years old and his second studio album, "Sweet Baby James," had released earlier that same year. “Rainy Day Man“ first appeared on James's debut album, "James Taylor" (1968).
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LYRICS - Rainy Day Man - James Taylor
What good is that happy lie
All you wanted from the start was to cry
It looks like another fall
Your good friends they don’t seem to help at all
When you’re feeling kind of cold and small
Just look up your rainy day man
It does you no good to pretend child
You’ve made a hole much too big to mend
And it looks like you lose again, my friend
Call on your rainy day man
Now rainy day man he don’t like sunshine
He don’t chase rainbows
He don’t need good times
Grey days rolling
Then you’ll see him
Empty feeling
Now you need him
All those noble thoughts they just don’t belong
You can’t hide the truth with a happy song
And since you knew where you stood all along
Just look up your rainy day man
Now simple pleasures they all evade you
Store-bought treasures none can save you
Look for signs to ease the pain
Ask again
Go on and pray for rain
It looks like another fall
Your good friends they don’t seem to help at all
When you’re feeling kind of cold and small
Just look up your rainy day man
All I need to do is look up my rainy day man
Now what good is that happy lie
All you wanted from the start was to cry
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Beautiful song, use to listen to this during some of the toughest times in my life, so glad those days are behind me.
James is the best
Thank you, James. You've been a true staple in my life for 50 years. Always loved and appreciated.
One of his greatest songs. He hasn't been a staple in my life cause I only like his first three records. But they were so good before he got off Heroin. After that he sang sad songs with a happy smile, how disconcerting.
James, you , Joni and Neil Young were our great troubadours back then. How blessed were we?
I miss hearing these songs on the radio. So glad we have a way to take them everywhere we go now.
You can make your own JT channels on some of the streaming apps.
So much music from one man and a guitar.
For many of us, this was our 'coming of age' music. What wonderful, and sometimes challenging, memories.
The beauty of his voice never ceases to amaze me. It's so perfect! I love to see his spirit shining through in this video. Beautiful voice, beautiful spirit.
A half century ago... seems only like a half-hour ago.🤔🧐💯
Yes
True that.
Where time fly,s, thank you MR TAYLOR for just being you, JEST BEAUTIFUL. PEACE BE WITH YOU MY FRIEND'S.✌️✌️✌️😎😎😎🏴🏴🏴🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Exactly ☮️
In fact it’s brilliant imho ☮️
He writes, sings and plays so effortlessly. Amazing.
The sound on this is FABULOUS. It kinda makes you want to be sad....
It's raining on my face, thanks James Taylor, LoL. 🥺 Every now and then a good cry is the answer. #JamesTaylorRocks ❤️
Ah James....what a distinctly marvelous voice. Love you so much.
I’m so glad he lives right down the Massachusetts Turnpike from me, in a beautiful little town called Lennox, and he has a summer home on Cape Cod where I live. Every summer’s end, he gives two concerts at Tanglewood in Lennox. We go every year as my son lives in the next town over, Pittsfield and Lee, MA. He is one of the few who sounds just as great as when he first started singing. I’ve always wanted to meet him as he seems to be a wonderful person to have a relaxed conversation. I do love James.
I grew up on October Mountain in Becket going to camp there. Every time I am in the area I feel the same, extremely nostalgic for me, and makes me cry as I went to Tanglewood as a child. Love that JT lives there, and he's even better now than in the 70s.
I'm so happy I grew up in the 70's. This time in history can never be repeated. What a blessing. Fan 👏👏
Me too...
Best of best in THIS era
Sweet Baby James ☺
I was born in 95 and I wish I’d grown up in the 70’s. Jim Croce, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, Simon & Garfunkel (well, they broke up in 70 but you get the picture...)
Wouldn’t trade my life for anyone else’s.
But my faith in music is having a renewal.
I found Larkin Poe and Molly Tuttle.
Look them up. You will be rewarded. ☮️💟🇨🇦
@@barbaratatton7552 a toss up for me on LP, sweet baby James, and mud slide slim. Sweet Baby James, definitely captured top spot for song. We were lucky, have a fantastic day 😁🎶🎶🎶
@@MrAlexarctica I so admire your youth, but I wouldn't trade anything for that place in time. James and Jim, it's a wonder I can still hear after listening to them. You named everyone of my favorites, but I have to add the Eagles. You have a wonderful day, and thank you for the flashback.🎶🎶🎶✌️
...a gift for humanity, and an essential part of my adolescence
Sad songs say so much
What a talented and handsome young man
Forever my rainy day man.He can bring you out of the most tearful circumstances. A beautiful song for yesterday, today and tomorrow.Thank you James.
What an incredible natural singing voice wow James!
James, your voice has been a constant in my life for 40 years. No one writes songs as aching beautiful or sings with as much honesty as you do. Thank you for a million moments of love, joy, peace and wonder!
What a beautiful voice..
You are the "Rainy Day Man", your relaxing laid back music gets us through the storms of life like Covid -19. Thanks for the beautiful music.
Beautiful song 🎶🎼🎵👍🎵🎼🎶
Well hell I was going to give it another thumbs up but I guess I might as well just said I just loved you then and now
Thank you rainy day man
I saw this concert video on VH1 in 1998 when I was 15, changed everything for me.
What a beautiful song! Never heard it before. ❤
I still love the tone and accent of this young man, and am grateful for these. I hope we can purchase this soundtrack in the future. The songs were new and the performances not aged by thousands of nights of satisfying us by playing them live.
I agree with you. I’ve been waiting a few years to see if they can put this UK performance on cd or dvd. Here’s when you’re getting JT at his unique best.Just a man and his guitar. I love how he opened his session with his rendition of theBeatles” I get by with a little help from my friends “. He truly made it his own.
Nothing like some JT at 4:30 am when I can't sleep... love listening to him, 50- some years❣🎶🎸🎵🎶
Goosebumps
I'm 63 and never heard this song before. How did I miss it. Love it. Thank you James.
That is a mystery because it was on the radio non stop. On the other hand, how lucky are you that you received this song at this time in your life. It must feel like a wonderful gift.
@@Cedarlass Maybe my memory 'ain't what it used to be', haha. But you're right, I'm happy to have found it!
Am 66 yrs. old now,but I remember when I was in my mid 20’s I got to see him in Greensboro, N.C and it was awesome!! I love him today just as much as ever. 🎵
65, we have the Best music.
Such a talented songwriter and musician. I always loved James Taylor.
What a gem!
Thank you, James.
Love this🤗
Thanks for the restored footage of bygone days. It is crystal clear carrying me back to a time my head had hair and dreams of hope and despair
My favorite live James of all time, this BBC event. Big thumbs up.
Absolutely precious!
Cheers to all ❤️
It's another Fall and still listening and enjoying your BEAUTIFUL music and lyrics. Your music 🎶 🌹💙
Such a great song from a terrific man !!! 😊❤✌
This is one of our anthems up here in Seattle. Every line could be the start of another song.
"Every line could be the start of another song." I LOVE that.
@@auradotca I stole it from Bob Dylan talking about A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall.
Thanks again! God bless you!!
Born in 62. You are the soundtrack of my life. Thank you! Now about pie making....
James is the Best Ever, this planet were gifted with him!!!🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️😀☮️❤️ 🎸🎼
Thank you James. My most favorite song♥I like your voice.
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That voice, those lyrics .... that poncho .... quintessential JT!
I think that’s the sweater that Joni Mitchell knitted for James.
What a song, and that voice...
Be great to hear in a future concert.
The most beautiful tune, but it’s masking the most despairing lyrics one can imagine, about the hopelessness of addiction…
Now rainy day man don't like sunshine
He don't chase no rainbows
He don't need good times, no
Grey days rolling
Then you'll see him
I said empty feeling
Lord, now you need him
All those noble thoughts, they don't belong
Can't hide the truth with a happy song
And since you knew where you stood all along
Just call on your rainy day man
heartbreaking
46+ years ago I bought many of his albums & his music has always been a favorite with Carol King & Carley Simon
I could listen to you forever. Never ceases to calm me❤❤❤
Beautiful song. Thank you for sharing.
Incredible music that has left an imprint on me for my life.
A song for present times; raining everywhere...
Awesome song, Love the great sound of this special voice singing 'Rainy Day Man'
,Music, Classic
Brings the joy with a contemplative chaser.
Sempre bellissime canzoni James come la tua voce
Pure genius!
I'd Love to hear his rendition of
HANDY MAN. Gotta love these types of songs that bring out the Best in his Talent.
We Love You James. 😍😍😍
This is real music not that stuff kids listen to nowdays! How the world has changed and not for the better.
Its a shame today's munitions don't write and sing songs as beautiful as Mr. Taylors
That voice, those baseline chords !
Specially like the guitar on this version. He is so relaxed, makes it look easy and effortless. At the top of his game at 22.
Beautifully restored, JT. This concert inspired me to buy a Gibson J-50...and I still play it.
Amazing!! 🙌🙌🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Really loved hearing this again. Thanks for posting!
Wow...
Please upload the rest of this concert. I know it’s out there. James was absolutely phenomenal here!
Keep watching on Fridays ;)
Sublime. Thanks so much for sharing this. I have to tell you now, before either of us gets too old, there are countless acoustic guitarists whom I admire but there are only three whose sound alone moves me. Cat Stevens, Greg Lake and your good self. As confirmed by this clip, it really has nothing to do with the equipment or even the sound engineer. It IS YOU, your commitment and your connection to the instrument. (I've seen your video about the extreme lengths you go to in order to prepare your nails.) The amazing sound you garner from those six strings, allied to the warmth, fragility, unique tone and honesty in your voice is simply astounding. Even my fave all-time artiste Neil Young, who also recorded a great set for the BBC In Concert in 1970, pales by comparison. Thank YOU for the music and giving it to me 💞
That's a super baritone right there
Back to the start of it all! Thank you for sharing all of these older videos!
So nice to hear this song again 🙏🏻
Love this ❤️
Thank you for this upload!! This song is perfect for these times. Thanks again
Yes... Timeless 💙
Wow!! Just when I thought I had heard all of your songs. I have never heard this one - I really like it ❤️
Love forever❤😘
Ahh! One of my favorites. Nothing like a finger picker. ❤️
Amazing Song I love it
Thank you🌹
Thnx James Taylor 💜☮️
🌧 ❤️Rainy Day Man 🌧 ❤️🌧❤️
“Look for signs to ease the pain - Ask again - child - and pray for rain.”
Thank the good Lord that 🌧 ❤️
He RAINED His grace upon Sweet Baby James🎶
“Rainy Day Man” (1967) "The "rainy-day man" was a dope connection. I had taken my first opiate in 1966. Joel "Bishop" O'Brien, the drummer in the Flying Machine, was an addict. I spent a lot of time at his apartment, so it was just a matter of time before I tried heroin. I was pretty much born to shoot dope - it was the key to my lock, so I really was gone for the next 20 years." Rolling Stone Interview
Thank you.
Mahalo James
RAINY DAY MAN -- picking at the start that alludes to a late 60's 'British Invasion' hit Needles & Pins. You must be 'of an age' (early 70's) to spot such things! A haunting melody simultaneously simple yet complex: Opening in B-major, sliding down to E-natural for the main chorus. Oh yes, and James Taylor's life-long specialty - beautiful bridges. (Especially love the one that slips into A-Flat minor.)
Classic never-out-of-date finger-style picking throughout - deceptively simple, with just a few hammer-ons (hammers-on?) for embellishment. The Devil's in the details. God too, right?
Don't you just love it, when this 22 year old singer unleashes the full power of that young baritone voice - if only for a phrase or two (around the 2:04 mark) “Ask again, child! Pray for rain!”
Thanks James Taylor for sharing this one. Another gem to delight us for the very first time - exactly 50 years on.
💕😘☘🤘✌love kisses luck rock on peace! Love you!😁
"And this is not even my final form"
10 !!
It’s raining here in Vermont Now
Feeling his “ rainy day man” was what was in that needle he stuck into his body. What deep thoughts put to easy music. Hiding all that pain. So glad he was able to cut that all loose and walk on through his life. Your a treasure Mr James and I’m so happy I found you again. BLESSINGS TO YOU & YOURS.
cada dia que pasa te amo mas james
I love you sweets
Didn’t he have this song on his album flag? Great song James!❤️
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Sailor Moon
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