Who Let In The Rain

Album: Hat Full of Stars (1993)
Charted: 32
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Songfacts®:

  • Lauper wrote this song with Allee Willis, an artist and songwriter whose credits include "Neutron Dance" and "September." Says Willis: "We worked together on and off for about three years. And a lot of the time she would come out here and stay at my house and I would go back to Connecticut and stay at hers, and we wrote I think 4 or 5 things that were on Hat Full of Stars. That was one of those songs that I really did love on that record, and it didn't quite make it. But it's amazing to me how many people still ask me about that song, because it wasn't one of the bigger hits for her or for me." (Read more in the Allee Willis interview, and at her website: alleewillis.com.)

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