Don't Rain on My Parade 1965 and by Only Men Aloud! in 2008. Japan in 1978 on their "Adolescent Sex" album. The Bobby Darin version was used in the film "American Beauty" and the trailer for "Catch Me If You Can". The song was covered by Diana Ross and The Supremes on their 1968 album "Sing and Perform Funny Girl". Robin Williams also sang this song while dressed as Streisand during a scene from "Mrs. Doubtfire". LaToya London sang the song on the third season of "American Idol". Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Diana Ross and Donna Summer also sang this song live. Lois Griffin sang
Rain (Madonna song) has a different melody included with it, and the song ends in a group chorus without the harmonies. Lyrically, Madonna compares rain with feelings of love. Just as rain washes away dirt, love washes clean the sorrows of the past, leaving a person and their lover to focus on their feelings of the present moment. Richard Harrington from "The Washington Post" described "Rain" as "an optimistic Peter Gabriel-like ballad in which water is a metaphor for love ('Wash away my sorrow, take away my pain')." According to Stephen Sears from music website Idolator, "the synths turbo-charge at 2:46 into a