I Can't Stand the Rain (album)

I Can't Stand the Rain is the fourth studio album by American Memphis soul singer Ann Peebles. It was released on the Hi label in 1974 and was her highest-charting record on the Billboard 200, where it reached no. 155 and spent 7 weeks. Produced by Willie Mitchell and largely written by Peebles and her husband, Don Bryant, I Can't Stand the Rain included the R&B hits "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down" and "I Can't Stand the Rain", the latter of which reached no. 6 on the R&B chart and no. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973.

Track listing

Side A "I Can't Stand the Rain" (Don Bryant, Bernard "Bernie" Miller, Ann Peebles) – 2:31 "Do I Need You" (Bryant, Peebles) – 2:33 "Until You Came Into My Life" (Bryant, Miller, Peebles) – 3:13 "(You Keep Me) Hanging On" (Ira Allen, Buddy Mize) – 2:44 "Run Run Run" (Bryant, Darryl Carter, Peebles) – 2:38

Side B "If We Can't Trust Each Other" (Earl Randle) – 2:55 "A Love Vibration" (Bryant, Miller, Peebles) – 2:50 "You Got to Feed the Fire" (Bryant, Miller, Peebles) – 2:22 "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down" (Earl Randle) – 2:45 "One Way Street" (Bryant, Peebles) – 2:50

Personnel Ann Peebles – vocals Howard Grimes – drums Charles Hodges – Hammond organ Leroy Hodges – bass guitar Mabon "Teenie" Hodges – guitar Wayne Jackson – trumpet Jack Hale – trombone Ed Logan – tenor saxophone Andrew Love – tenor saxophone James Mitchell – baritone saxophone Archie Turner – piano The Memphis Strings – string section Charles Chalmers, Donna Rhodes, Sandra Rhodes – background vocals

Charts Chart (1974) Peakposition U.S. Top LPs & Tape (Billboard)155 U.S. Soul LPs (Billboard)25

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