“Have You Ever Seen the Rain” is a song by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, written by John Fogerty and released as a single in 1971 from the album Pendulum (1970). The song charted highest in Canada, reaching number one on the RPM 100 national singles chart in March 1971. In the U.S., in the same year it peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. On the Cash Box pop chart, it peaked at number three. In the UK, it reached number 36. It was the group’s eighth gold-selling single. In March 2023, the song surpassed one billion streams on Spotify.
Cash Box called the song “as close to a ballad as anything from CCR.”
Fogerty released a live version of the song on his The Long Road Home – In Concert DVD which was recorded at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on September 15, 2005. A music video was released for the band’s 50th anniversary on December 11, 2018.
On the 2013 John Fogerty album Wrote a Song for Everyone a new recording of the song featuring Alan Jackson was included.
