“It Never Rains in Southern California” is a 1972 song jointly written and composed by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood and sung by Hammond, a British-born singer-songwriter. The lyrics of “It Never Rains In Southern California” tell a first-person story of a showbiz aspirant whose attempts to break into entertainment were failures, but who wants to hide that fact from those he had left behind to pursue his dreams. Though Hammond’s and Hazlewood’s lyrics do not actually specify the narrator’s living conditions, it can be implied that he was found homeless and penniless, a humiliation he would naturally be unwilling to reveal to those he had left behind.
Songs with Banjo from Harold Hagler
