Don't Rain on My Parade
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"Don't Rain On My Parade" is a popular song from the 1964 musical
Funny Girl. It was also featured in the 1968 movie version of the musical
. The song was written by Bob Merrill
and Jule Styne
. Both the movie and stage versions feature Barbra Streisand
performing the song. It has since become one of her signature tunes. Streisand has sung this song live on many occasions, including during her highly successful comeback tour Barbra Streisand: The Concert Tour (1993–1994), Timeless Live In Concert Tour
(1999–2000) and the recent Streisand: The Tour
(2006–2007). The instrumental of this song can be heard during the Overture
of the stage show, the film and on Streisand's 2006-2007 Tour. This song was also used in episode 13 "Sectionals" of the first season of "Glee" sung by the character Rachel Berry at their Glee club Sectionals.
during her 2006/07 Tour.
in 1966, Shirley Bassey
in 1965, Japan
in 1978 and by Only Men Aloud!
in 2008. The Darin version was used in the film American Beauty
and the trailer for Catch Me If You Can
.
Robin Williams
also sang this song while dressed as Streisand during a scene from Mrs. Doubtfire
.
LaToya London sang the song on the third season of American Idol
. Judy Garland
, Liza Minnelli
and Diana Ross
also sang this song live.
Lois Griffin
sang parts of this song in Family Guy
episode "Mind Over Murder
".
The song was performed by Connie and Carla (Toni Collette
and Nia Vardalos
) in the movie Connie and Carla
.
Tony Award Winner Idina Menzel
also sings this song in the Kennedy Honors concert dedicated for original singer Barbra Streisand.
The Dorothys on Over the Rainbow
, the TV show in which Andrew Lloyd Webber chooses a Dorothy for the west end production, also sing this song as a group number.
Mireille Mathieu
sang this song on her 2006 Films and Shows album. It was also featured in the TV show God, the Devil and Bob
.
Japan
covered the song on their 1978 debut album Adolescent Sex
.
It was also used in the BBC sitcom Beautiful People
.
, as Rachel Berry, performed the song on Glee
, in the episode "Sectionals
", aired December 9, 2009. Her cover version was released as a single avaiable for download
, and is also featured in the soundtrack album Glee: The Music, Volume 2
. It charted at number 59 in Canada and 53 in the US
Michele also performed the song during the Glee Cast Glee Live! In Concert!
tour. Subsequently, the live version is featured in Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
as well in the movie soundtrack album Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (Motion Picture Soundtrack).
Michele also performed it during the 64th Tony Awards
on June 13, 2010.
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
Funny Girl. It was also featured in the 1968 movie version of the musical
Funny Girl (film)
Funny Girl is a 1968 romantic musical film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart was adapted from her book for the stage musical of the same title...
. The song was written by Bob Merrill
Bob Merrill
Bob Merrill was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Merrill Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following a stint with the Army during World War II, he moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a...
and Jule Styne
Jule Styne
Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
. Both the movie and stage versions feature Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
performing the song. It has since become one of her signature tunes. Streisand has sung this song live on many occasions, including during her highly successful comeback tour Barbra Streisand: The Concert Tour (1993–1994), Timeless Live In Concert Tour
Timeless Live In Concert Tour
Timeless: Live in Concert Tour is a tour by world famous entertainer Barbra Streisand. Following her hotly anticipated Millennium Concert 1999/2000 Barbra decided to take this concert on the road for an 8 day tour of Australia, Los Angeles & New York...
(1999–2000) and the recent Streisand: The Tour
Streisand: The Tour
Streisand: The Tour is the unofficial name to Barbra Streisand's Fall 2006 North American concert tour. Comprising 20 shows, it was Streisand's first United States tour since 1994 and her first live concert events since her supposed farewell concerts that took place in Las Vegas in December 1999...
(2006–2007). The instrumental of this song can be heard during the Overture
Overture
Overture in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera...
of the stage show, the film and on Streisand's 2006-2007 Tour. This song was also used in episode 13 "Sectionals" of the first season of "Glee" sung by the character Rachel Berry at their Glee club Sectionals.
Reprise version
There is a reprise version of this song with alternate lyrics which served as the finale for the stage show. This number was cut from the film. Streisand sang this version live for the first time since her run in the original Broadway production as an encoreEncore (concert)
An encore is an additional performance added to the end of a concert, from the French "encore", which means "again", "some more"; multiple encores are not uncommon. Encores originated spontaneously, when audiences would continue to applaud and demand additional performance from the artist after the...
during her 2006/07 Tour.
Barbra Streisand versions
- "Don't Rain On My Parade" from "Funny Girl: Original Broadway Cast Recording" (1964) - 2:46
- "Don't Rain On My Parade (Reprise)" from "Funny Girl: Original Broadway Cast Recording" (1964) - 2:07
- "Don't Rain On My Parade" from "Funny Girl: Original Soundtrack Recording" (1968) - 2:45
- "Don't Rain On My Parade" (Live) from "Live Concert At The ForumLive Concert at the ForumLive Concert at the Forum is the second live album by Barbra Streisand. The album was recorded at a live concert at The Forum in Los Angeles on April 15, 1972, in front of an audience of 18,000 people. The concert was a fundraiser for Senator George McGovern's presidential campaign...
" (1972) - 2:39 - "Don't Rain On My Parade" (Live) from "Barbra Streisand ... and Other Musical InstrumentsBarbra Streisand...And Other Musical InstrumentsBarbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments is a studio album by Barbra Streisand, released in 1973. The material on the album was drawn from Streisand's fifth television special which had aired earlier in the same year, on which Streisand had sung a selection of her best-known tracks and...
" (1973) - 2:38 - "I'm Still Here/Everybody Says Don't/Don't Rain On My Parade" (Live) from "Barbra: The Concert" (1994) & "The Concert: Highlights" (1995) - 4:26
- "I'm The Greatest Star/Second Hand Rose/Don't Rain On My Parade" (Live) from "Timeless: Live in ConcertTimeless: Live in ConcertTimeless: Live in Concert is a live album released by Barbra Streisand on September 19, 2000 . It was her fifth live album and was released on Columbia Records...
" (2000) - 5:25 - "Don't Rain On My Parade (Live)" from "Live In Concert 2006Live in Concert 2006Live in Concert 2006 is a live album by Barbra Streisand which was recorded during her record setting 2006 U.S. tour known as Streisand: The Tour. The double album contains songs recorded at different shows and venues including New York's Madison Square Garden and Washington DC's Verizon Center...
" (Target Exclusive Version Only) (2007) - 2:57 - "Don't Rain On My Parade (Reprise)" from "Live In Concert 2006" (2007) - 3:31
Cover versions
The song was covered by many artists, among the notable ones are Bobby DarinBobby Darin
Bobby Darin , born Walden Robert Cassotto, was an American singer, actor and musician.Darin performed in a range of music genres, including pop, rock, jazz, folk and country...
in 1966, Shirley Bassey
Shirley Bassey
Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...
in 1965, Japan
Japan (band)
Japan were a British New Wave group, formed in 1974 in Catford, South London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement .- History :The band began as a group of friends...
in 1978 and by Only Men Aloud!
Only Men Aloud!
Only Men Aloud! is a male voice choir from Wales. The choir came to national prominence in the UK when they won the Last Choir Standing competition run by BBC television during 2008.-Overview:...
in 2008. The Darin version was used in the film American Beauty
American Beauty (film)
American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, a middle-aged magazine writer who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela...
and the trailer for Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical comedy-drama film based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor...
.
Robin Williams
Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...
also sang this song while dressed as Streisand during a scene from Mrs. Doubtfire
Mrs. Doubtfire
Mrs. Doubtfire is a 1993 American comedy film starring Robin Williams and Sally Field and based on the novel Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine. It was directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup...
.
LaToya London sang the song on the third season of American Idol
American Idol (Season 3)
The third season of American Idol premiered on Monday, January 19, 2004 and continued until May 26, 2004. The third season was won by Fantasia Barrino, who defeated Diana DeGarmo by an approximate margin of 2% ; the vote total was the highest recorded vote total in the show's history until the...
. Judy Garland
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
, Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli....
and Diana Ross
Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
also sang this song live.
Lois Griffin
Lois Griffin
Lois Griffin is a character from the animated television series Family Guy. She is voiced by writer Alex Borstein and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the family in the 15-minute short on December 20, 1998. Lois was created and designed by series creator Seth MacFarlane...
sang parts of this song in Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
episode "Mind Over Murder
Mind over Murder
"Mind Over Murder" is the fourth episode of the first season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on April 25, 1999. The episode features Peter after he is placed under house arrest, and decides to open his own bar in the family's...
".
The song was performed by Connie and Carla (Toni Collette
Toni Collette
Antonia "Toni" Collette is an Australian actress and musician, known for her acting work on stage, television and film as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish....
and Nia Vardalos
Nia Vardalos
Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos is a Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, director, singer and producer. Her most notable work is the 2002 Academy Award–nominated film My Big Fat Greek Wedding.-Personal life:...
) in the movie Connie and Carla
Connie and Carla
Connie and Carla is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Michael Lembeck and starring Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, and David Duchovny.The film was shot in Vancouver and featured a number of local drag queens.-Plot:...
.
Tony Award Winner Idina Menzel
Idina Menzel
Idina Kim Menzel is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She is widely known for originating the roles of Maureen in Rent and Elphaba in Wicked.-Early life:...
also sings this song in the Kennedy Honors concert dedicated for original singer Barbra Streisand.
The Dorothys on Over the Rainbow
Over the Rainbow (2010 TV series)
Over the Rainbow is a British television talent series which aired on BBC One from March to May 2010. It documents the search for a new, undiscovered musical theatre performer to play the role of Dorothy in the forthcoming Andrew Lloyd Webber stage production of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and a...
, the TV show in which Andrew Lloyd Webber chooses a Dorothy for the west end production, also sing this song as a group number.
Mireille Mathieu
Mireille Mathieu
Mireille Mathieu is a French chanteuse, and pop singer. Hailed in the French press as the successor to Édith Piaf, she has achieved great commercial success, recording over 1200 songs in nine different languages, with more than 120 million records sold worldwide.-Childhood to early...
sang this song on her 2006 Films and Shows album. It was also featured in the TV show God, the Devil and Bob
God, the Devil and Bob
God, the Devil and Bob is an animated sitcom which premiered on NBC on March 9, 2000 and ended on March 28, 2000, leaving nine episodes unaired. It was created by Matthew Carlson. It is currently broadcast on the Philippine channel Maxxx. The entire series was released on Region 1 DVD in the...
.
Japan
Japan (band)
Japan were a British New Wave group, formed in 1974 in Catford, South London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement .- History :The band began as a group of friends...
covered the song on their 1978 debut album Adolescent Sex
Adolescent Sex
Adolescent Sex was the first album from the British glam rock/new romantic group Japan, released in March 1978. To avoid controversy over the title, the album was renamed Japan in some countries...
.
It was also used in the BBC sitcom Beautiful People
Beautiful People (UK TV series)
Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place in Reading, Berkshire in 1997, where thirteen-year-old Simon Doonan and his best friend Kylie dream of escaping their dreary suburban surroundings and...
.
Glee version
Lea MicheleLea Michele
Lea Michele Sarfati , known professionally as Lea Michele, is an American actress and singer. Michele began working professionally as a child actress on Broadway in productions such as Ragtime and Les Misérables. She originated the role of Wendla in the musical Spring Awakening and currently plays...
, as Rachel Berry, performed the song on Glee
Glee (TV series)
Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
, in the episode "Sectionals
Sectionals
"Sectionals" is the 13th episode of the American television series Glee. It premiered on the Fox network on December 9, 2009. The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Brad Falchuk, and serves as the mid-season finale for the show's first season. "Sectionals" sees the glee club win...
", aired December 9, 2009. Her cover version was released as a single avaiable for download
Music download
A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
, and is also featured in the soundtrack album Glee: The Music, Volume 2
Glee: The Music, Volume 2
Glee: The Music, Volume 2 is the second soundtrack album by the cast of the American musical television series Glee, featuring songs from episodes nine to thirteen of the show's first season. It was first released on December 4, 2009 in Australia by Columbia Records...
. It charted at number 59 in Canada and 53 in the US
Michele also performed the song during the Glee Cast Glee Live! In Concert!
Glee Live! In Concert!
Glee Live! In Concert! is a concert tour performed in character by members of the cast of the popular television series, Glee. The tour, created by series creator Ryan Murphy was designed due to the overwhelming response to the series. The show reached North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland...
tour. Subsequently, the live version is featured in Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie is a 2011 American 3-D concert film directed by Kevin Tancharoen. It is based on the Fox television series Glee and features the cast performing during the Glee Live! In Concert! tour.-Synopsis:...
as well in the movie soundtrack album Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (Motion Picture Soundtrack).
Michele also performed it during the 64th Tony Awards
64th Tony Awards
The 64th Annual Tony Awards took place on Sunday, June 13, 2010, held again at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The host was Sean Hayes. These awards recognize Broadway productions during the 2009–2010 season. The cut off-date for Tony eligibility was April 29, 2010, and the nominations...
on June 13, 2010.