I like to walk in the rain

Every time in the last week when we’ve had the notion to walk on Hampstead Heath, the rain has come down. So it was today but we went anyway, and eventually it did clear, the woods becoming magical in the evening sun.

The song that I can never keep out of my mind at such times is I Like to Walk in the Rain, as performed by Shirley Temple and Bill Bojangles Robinson in the film Just Around the Corner. It’s at about 3:25 in the above clip, but if you watch from the start you’ll also get Mr Robinson performing Brass Buttons and Epaulettes, accompanied by the Raymond Scott Quintette.

If all that isn’t enough, you can watch the entire film as a playlist, but really, I don’t recommend it. The songs are great but the rest is tedious, and aside from the concert at the end the only other song is, I think, This is a Happy Little Ditty, performed by Miss Temple, Mr Robinson, Joan Davis, and Bert Lahr, better known as The Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz. You can find that song here.