“The Rain The Park and Other Things” by The Cowsills

"The Rain, the Park & Other Things" came from the pens of Artie Kornfeld and Steve Duboff, and the Cowsills made it the calling card of their self-titled 1967 debut on MGM, a gentle, wide-eyed slice of psychedelic pop.

As a single it climbed to number 2 on Billboard, stuck behind the Monkees' "Daydream Believer", but it went all the way on the Cash Box Top 100 and on Canada's RPM chart. It locked in the Cowsills' popularity around the world and over the years it sold some three million copies; only "Hair", which also stalled at number 2 in 1969, ever matched it as their biggest hit.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.