"It Never Rains in Southern California", written by Albert Hammond

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Albert Hammond OBE is a British singer, songwriter and record producer from Gibraltar.-Birth and early success:Hammond was born in London, England, where his family had been evacuated to from Gibraltar during World War II. His family returned to Gibraltar shortly after his birth, and there he grew...

 and Mike Hazlewood, is the title of a song first released by Hammond, a British

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 born singer-songwriter

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, in 1972. Hammond's version peaked at number five on the U.S.

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 Billboard Hot 100

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 that year.

The song concerns the struggles of a singer who moves out to California

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 to pursue a career in Hollywood but does not have any success and deteriorates in the process. In the chorus, Hammond sings, "It never rains in California, but girl don't they warn ya. It pours, man it pours."

Cover versions

The chorus was reprised by Julio Iglesias

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Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva , better known simply as Julio Iglesias, is a Spanish singer who has sold over 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music Entertainment, he is one of the top 15 best selling music artists in history,...

 in 1984's Moonlight Lady

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, which Hammond co-wrote with Carole Bayer Sager

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Saori Minami covered the song on her 1973 studio album Kizu Tsuku Sedai.
Agnes Chan

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 covered the song on her 1973 album With Love From Agnes.

A cover

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 was released by the country music

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 band Trent Summar & The New Row Mob

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, in 2000 on their self-titled debut album. This version peaked at number 74 on the country music charts.

Albert Hammond version

Chart (1972–73)	Peak position
Japanese Oricon International Chart	1
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Norwegian VG-lista Singles Chart VG-lista VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by...	3
U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	5
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West German Singles Cart	9
Japanese Oricon Singles Chart Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...	11
Dutch Singles Chart MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top...	21

Saori Minami version

Chart (1973)	Peak position
Japanese Oricon Singles Chart Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...	77

Trent Summar & the New Row Mob version

Chart (2000)	Peak position
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