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It Never Rains in Southern California, 1971
Written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood
There's a sizeable category of songs about leaving home to shoot for the stars in the big city, only to fail (and either return in shame, or yearn to return although unable or unwilling). This soft-rock song, which was a huge hit, is the same old sad story ("It never rains in California / But girl, don't they warn ya? / It pours, man, it pours"), with the narrator pleading with his interlocutor to lie to the people back home about what a big shot he is. The mellow tone of the song is punched up by Hammond's backing band, made up of members from Wrecking Crew.
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