High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Rainy Day People" is a song written and recorded by Gordon Lightfoot, released on his 1975 album, Cold on the Shoulder, and also as a single. "Rainy Day People" went to number twenty-six on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Lightfoot`s last of four songs to reach number one on the Easy Listening chart, spending one week at number one in May 1975.