I love rainy days. It’s a good excuse to lay around all day. This week it rained for three consecutive days. I caught up on the final season of Entourage and was disappointed to learn that Turtle has lost weight and stopped wearing his baseball caps and basketball jerseys. I also put a significant dent in Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, which I’m really enjoying. But I found that none of my summer playlists worked well with a rainy day. So I made a new one. Here it is; enjoy your next rainy day:

• I Wish It Would Rain, The Temptations
• Have You Ever Seen the Rain? Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Here Comes the Rain Again, Eurythmics
• Rain, The Beatles
• The Rain, Melody Gardot
• California Rain, Madeline Peyroux
• Early Morning Rain, Eva Cassidy
• Kentucky Rain, Elvis Presley
• Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Elvis Presley
• Raining on Sunday, Keith Urban
• Rainy Days and Mondays, The Carpenters
• Singin’ in the Rain, Jamie Cullum
• Fire and Rain, James Taylor
• Rainy Night in Georgia, Brook Benton
• Purple Rain, Prince
• November Rain, Guns N’ Roses
• Thunder Only Happens When Its Raining, Fleetwood Mac
• Who’s Gonna Stop the Rain? Anastacia
• I Can See Clearly Now, Johnny Nash
• No More Rain, Angie Stone
• After the Rain, John Coltrane
• Over the Rainbow, Judy Garland