Here's That Rainy Day  "Here's That Rainy Day" is a popular song with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke that was published in 1953. It was introduced by Dolores Gray in the Broadway musical "Carnival in Flanders". Frank Sinatra recorded the song on March 25, 1959, for the Capitol album "No One Cares", arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins. Sinatra performed it on a Timex-sponsored show entitled "The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: An Afternoon with Frank Sinatra" broadcast on December 13, 1959, and on the Emmy-nominated "Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing", broadcast on November 25, 1968. On November 18, 1973, he performed it on his television comeback special, "Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra", in a medley with "Last Night When We Were Young" and "Violets for Your Furs". Sinatra also performed the song during three concerts in 1974 at Caesar's Palace in Philadelphia and Saratoga, New York. Late-night talk show host Johnny Carson said "Here's That Rainy Day" by Frank Sinatra was his favorite ballad. Carson and Bette Midler sang the song on the penultimate episode of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" on May 21, 1992. Singer/songwriter Paul Williams sang the song on the show in ape makeup as part of promotion for his film "Battle for the Planet of the Apes". After Carson's death in 2005, Doc Severinsen, Tommy Newsom, and Ed Shaughnessy performed the song with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra on "Late Show with David Letterman". The song has been recorded by many singers from different genres, including Tony Bennett, Dee Dee Bridgewater,Glen Campbell (on a Dionne Warwick Television special "Dionne Warwick Souled Out", The Stan Kenton Orchestra, June Christy, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Vic Damone, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Lou Rawls, Astrud Gilberto (with Stan Getz), Lena Horne, Phyllis Hyman, Jack Jones, Gerard Kenny, Steve Lawrence, Peggy Lee, Kenny Rankin, Della Reese, Frank Sinatra, Kiri Te Kanawa, Mel Torme, Sarah Vaughan, Andy Williams and Nancy Wilson. It is also a favorite of jazz instrumentalists, with renditions by Joe Pass, Gene Ammons, Chet Baker, Ray Brown, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Bill Evans, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Wes Montgomery, Art Pepper, Oscar Peterson, Kenny Rogers, Toots Thielemans, Urbie Green, Alvin "Red" Tyler, L.A. Jazz Quintet and McCoy Tyner.