Rainy Days and Mondays

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“Rainy Days and Mondays”
“Rainy Days and Mondays” cover
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 Records
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 song by The Carpenters that went to #2 in the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and went gold. It was also the duo's fourth #1 song on the Adult Contemporary singles chart; however, it failed to chart in the UK until it went to #63 in a reissue there in 1993.

The song was composed in 1971 by then fairly unheard of 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". It has been covered by Olivia Newton John, Sarah Vaughan, The Intruders, Emmy Rossum and Cracker.

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

[edit] Compilations

  • Yesterday Once More
  • From the Top
  • Interpretations
  • Love Songs
  • The Essential Collection
  • Carpenters: Gold 35th Anniversary Edition
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Discography
Ticket to Ride (1969) · Close to You (1970) · Carpenters (1971) · A Song for You (1972) · Now & Then (1973) · The Singles: 1969-1973 (1973) · Horizon (1975) · A Kind of Hush (1976) · Live at the Palladium (1976) · Passage (1977) · The Singles: 1974-1978 (1978) · Made in America (1981) · Voice of the Heart (1983) · Lovelines (1989) · As Time Goes By (2004)
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