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Bee Girl

"No Rain"
No Rain by Blind Melon.jpg
U.S. CD maxi-single
Single by Blind Melon
from the album Blind Melon
Released June 8, 1993 (1993-06-08)
Format
Recorded 1992
Genre
Length 3:37
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Brad Smith
Producer(s) Rick Parashar
Blind Melon singles chronology
"Tones of Home"
(1992)
"No Rain"
(1993)
"I Wonder"
(1992)
"Tones of Home"
(1992)
"No Rain"
(1992)
"I Wonder"
(1992)

"No Rain" is a song by American rock band Blind Melon, which was written by the bass player Brad Smith. It was released in September 1992 as the second single from the band's debut album Blind Melon. The song is well known for its accompanying music video, which features the "Bee Girl" character. The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, received heavy airplay on MTV at the time of its release. It subsequently helped propel Blind Melon to a multi-platinum level.

The song is the band's highest-charting song, reaching number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number-one on both the Album Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts. The single proved successful internationally, hitting number-one in Canada and number 8 in Australia.

The following tracks appeared on the original 1992 release:

The following tracks appeared on the original 1992 French release:

The following tracks appeared on the original 1992 Netherlands release:

The following tracks appeared on the later 1993 CD/Vinyl re-release:

The following tracks appeared 1993 UK Vinyl release:

A live version of the song appears on radio station KMTT's Live From The Mountain Music Lounge Volume 14, released in 2008.

The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, stars Heather DeLoach as the "Bee Girl" — a young tap dancer wearing a homemade bee costume and large glasses, modeled after the Blind Melon album's cover: a family picture of Georgia Graham, younger sister of drummer Glen Graham. The Bee Girl's story is intercut with footage of Blind Melon performing in a field against a clear blue sky.

It opens on the girl's tap routine; the audience responds with laughter, and the girl runs off stage in tears. As the song plays, she wanders through a city, stopping to perform her dance for whoever will watch. Ultimately — at the point in the song where the word "escape" is repeated — she peeks through a gate, astonished, then runs through it to join a group of "bee people" of all shapes and sizes dancing joyfully in a green field.


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