233 The Staple Singers “Uncloudy Day” 1956

“The song was known to almost anyone who had attended a Christian church service. It was written in 1879 by Josiah K. Alwood, an itinerant preacher from the Midwest, after riding through a midnight rainstorm and catching a glimpse of what he said was a rainbow…the Staples found themselves transformed from a novelty to hometown stars who still carried themselves like everybody’s next-door neighbor” (Greg Kot, I’ll Take You There).

The Staple Singers “Uncloudy Day”