Cover Versions and Uses in The Media
This was one of the two songs performed by Milli Vanilli themselves when they were a special guest on The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (The other was "Girl You Know It's True"). The plot involved Bowser's attempt to kidnap the duo. However, after the scandal broke, the two songs were replaced with generic instrumentals in the episode.
In 1992, "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied this song and "Baby Don't Forget My Number" as "The Plumbing Song" for his album Off the Deep End.
The song was re recorded by Sam Moore & Fantasia in August 2006 for Moore's star studded compilation album entitled Overnight Sensational. The remake was produced by Randy Jackson and released on Rhino Records. Coincidentally, Fantasia is signed to J Records, headed by Clive Davis. Davis was responsible for signing Milli Vanilli.
In an episode of Full House, D.J. Tanner and Kimmy Gibbler are doing homework, and they sing this song. Michelle Tanner then sings "Rain, rain, go away...".
In their song "Blame it on Me," the Barenaked Ladies sing, "Milli Vanilli told you to blame it on the rain, but if you blame it on the rain tell me what can we gain, if all else fails, you can blame it on me."
On May 15, 2008, contestant Diana Drake sang "Blame It on the Rain" on Don't Forget the Lyrics! for the $1,000,000 prize. She missed, and dropped down to $100,000.
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Famous quotes containing the words cover, versions and/or media:
“If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicise a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey ... then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.”
—Al, Rev. Sharpton (b. 1954)
“The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)