Australian singles charts:
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall entered the Kent Music Report on 22 April 1974 and peaked at #23.
Album:
The song is on These Foolish Things which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 22 April 1974 and peaked at #18.
Songwriter:
Bob Dylan
Producers:
Bryan Ferry, John Porter, John Punter
Record label of Australian release:
Island
Wikipedia:
A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall was written by Bob Dylan in 1962 and recorded for his second album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.
Bryan Ferry’s cover was released on his debut solo studio album These Foolish Things, an album of all covers. At this time Ferry was still Roxy Music’s lead vocalist.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Rain’s_a-Gonna_Fall and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/These_Foolish_Things
Lyrics:
Oh, where have you been, my blue eyed son?
Where have you been, my darling, young one?
I′ve stumbled on the side twelve misty mountains
Walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways
Stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
Been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I′ve been ten thousand miles in mouth of a gravey
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