I Can't Stand the Rain Single: Ann Peebles Album: I Can't Stand the Rain Released: July 1973 Genre: Soul, Memphis soul Songwriters: Ann Peebles, Don Bryant & Bernard "Bernie" Miller Ann Peebles recorded "I Can't Stand the Rain" in 1973. She wrote the song with her future husband, Don Bryant, and the radio DJ Bernard "Bernie" Miller. Other hit versions were later recorded by Eruption and Tina Turner . The original version ranks Number 197 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Ann Peebles (I Can't Stand the Rain's) the best song ever. John Lennon to Billboard magazine Ann Peebles' father was a minister, and her mother a singer. Growing up, she sang in the church choir and toured the gospel circuit with the family group, the Peebles Choir. She sang secular music on the St. Louis club circuit as a teenager. Ann Peebles Peebles caught her big break in 1968 when trumpeter Gene "Bowlegs" Miller, who was