The Rain, the Park & Other Things - Wikipedia The Rain, the Park & Other Things `` The Rain, The Park & Other Things '' US release Single by The Cowsills from the album The Cowsills B - side `` River Blue '' Released September 1967 Format 7 '' single Genre Psychedelic pop Length 2 : 57 Label MGM Songwriter ( s ) Artie Kornfeld, Steve Duboff Producer ( s ) Artie Kornfeld The Cowsills singles chronology `` A Most Peculiar Man '' ( 1966 ) `` The Rain, The Park & Other Things '' ( 1967 ) `` We Can Fly '' ( 1968 ) `` A Most Peculiar Man '' ( 1966 ) `` The Rain, The Park & Other Things '' ( 1967 ) `` We Can Fly '' ( 1968 ) `` The Rain, the Park & Other Things '' is a psychedelic pop song with music and lyrics co-written by Artie Kornfeld and Steve Duboff. The song was recorded by the pop band The Cowsills, and included on their 1967 album The Cowsills ( MGM E / SE - 4498 ). Released as a single, the song reached # 2 on the Billboard charts. The single cemented the group 's international popularity and sold some three million copies over the years. It ties with 1969 's `` Hair '' as the group 's biggest hit, as both reached No. 2 in the U.S. It reached No. 1 in Canada 's RPM Magazine charts. Contents 1 Recording 2 Lyrical content 3 Chart performance 3.1 Weekly charts 3.2 Year - end charts 4 References 5 External links Recording The song was written by Kornfeld and Duboff specifically for the Cowsills ; Bob Cowsill said Kornfeld told him they wrote the song in two hours. The Cowsills did not play on their earliest recordings. Studio musicians were brought in to provide the music for this song and many of the earlier singles. For this song, musicians included Gene Bianco on harp, Vinnie Bell, Charles Macy and Al Gorgoni on guitar, Joe Macho on bass, Artie Butler on organ, Paul Griffin on piano, George Devens on percussion, and Buddy Saltzman and Al Rogers on drums. The song also featured the recorded sounds of a rainstorm. The song was originally recorded in late 1966 ; Barbara Cowsill 's backing vocals were added onto the finished recording after the initial sessions, at Kornfeld 's suggestion. The song is known by many as `` The Flower Girl ''. This title was the song 's original name, but MGM Records president Mort Nasatir suggested that the title be changed in order to avoid confusion with Scott McKenzie 's contemporaneous hit single `` San Francisco ( Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair ) ''. The new title was coined by Kornfeld. Lyrical content On the song, the narrator states that he saw a flower girl sitting in the rain, and says hello, and takes a lovely walk in the park, until she disappears, when the rain stops, and the sun breaks through. However, the narrator still feels happy about the flower girl, and states the final words : `` Was she reality, or just a dream to me ? ''. The song was used in the Lloyd fantasy scene in the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber. Chart performance Weekly charts Chart ( 1967 -- 68 ) Peak position Australia KMR Canada RPM New Zealand U.S. Billboard Hot 100 U.S. Cash Box Top 100 Year - end charts Chart ( 1967 ) Rank Canada 8 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 49 U.S. Cash Box 31 References Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits : Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 149. ^ Jump up to : Gibbs, Ryan. `` Name that refrain : ' The Rain, The Park & Other Things ' turns 50 ''. NewportRI.com l News and information for Newport, Rhode Island. Retrieved 19 March 2018. Jump up ^ `` The Rain, The Park And Other Things by The Cowsills Songfacts ''. Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 01. Jump up ^ `` flavour of new zealand - search listener ''. Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 01. Jump up ^ Joel Whitburn 's Top Pop Singles 1955 - 2002 Jump up ^ `` Cash Box Top 100 11 / 25 / 67 ''. Tropicalglen.com. 1967 - 11 - 25. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 01. Jump up ^ `` Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada ''. Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2016 - 08 - 12. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 01. Jump up ^ `` Top 100 Hits of 1967 / Top 100 Songs of 1967 ''. Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 01. Jump up ^ `` Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1967 ''. Tropicalglen.com. 1967 - 12 - 23. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 01. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Songfacts This 1960s pop song - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Rain,_the_Park_%26_Other_Things&oldid=847346210 '' Categories : 1967 singles Songs written by Artie Kornfeld 1966 songs 1960s pop song stubs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from March 2013 All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Italiano Edit links This page was last edited on 24 June 2018, at 17 : 37 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: who sang lead on the rain the park and other things
Answer: The Cowsills