Rainy Days and Mondays

"Rainy Days and Mondays"
Single by The Carpenters
from the album Carpenters
A-side "Rainy Days and Mondays"
B-side "Saturday"
Released April 23, 1971
Format 7" single
Recorded 1971
Genre Pop
Length 03:36
Label A&M
1260
Writer(s) Paul Williams; Roger Nichols
Producer Jack Daugherty
Certification RIAA Gold Single
The Carpenters singles chronology
"For All We Know"
(1971)		 "Rainy Days and Mondays"
(1971)		 "Superstar"
(1971)
Carpenters track listing
Side one
  1. "Rainy Days and Mondays"
  2. "Saturday"
  3. "Let Me Be the One"
  4. "(A Place to) Hideaway"
  5. "For All We Know"
Side two
  1. "Superstar"
  2. "Druscilla Penny"
  3. "One Love"
  4. "Bacharach/David Medley"
  5. "Sometimes"

"Rainy Days and Mondays" is a 1971 song by The Carpenters that went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was certified Gold by the RIAA. It was also the duo's fourth #1 song on the Adult Contemporary singles chart.[1] However, the song failed to chart in the United Kingdom until it went to #63 in a reissue there in 1993.

The song was composed in 1971 by then fairly unknown composers Roger Nichols and Paul Williams. It was released as the first track on the album Carpenters. The B-side on the single is "Saturday."

Olivia Newton-John, one of Karen's best friends, recorded a cover version of this song in her album Indigo: Women of Song as a tribute to Karen.

Chart Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 2
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening 1
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 2
Canadian Singles Chart 3
Oricon (Japanese) Singles Chart 71
UK Singles Chart (1993) 63

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References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 47. 
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