Australian singles chart:
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall entered the Kent charts on 25 October 1971 and peaked at #12. It was #83 on the Top 100 of 1971.
Album:
The song is on Leon Russell and the Shelter People which entered the Kent album charts on 8 November 1971 and peaked at #5.
Songwriter:
Bob Dylan
Producers:
Leon Russell, Denny Cordell
Record label of Australian release:
Shelter
Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall live at the Greene Street Club in Greensboro, NC, April 2008:
Wikipedia:
American musician and songwriter Leon Russell was involved with numerous bestselling records during his 60-year career which spanned multiple genres, including rock and roll, country, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, southern rock, blues rock, folk, surf and Tulsa Sound.
In 1971, Shelter Records released Leon Russell and the Shelter People, recorded at Russell’s Skyhill Studios. It included a cover of Bob Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Russell
Lyrics:
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I′ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I’ve walked and I′ve crawled on six crooked highways,
I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I′ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it′s a hard, and it’s a hard, it′s a hard, and it’s a hard,
And it′s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
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