Editing It's Raining Men (section)

==Development and production==
[[File:Paul Jabara Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|upright|"It's Raining Men" was co-written and co-produced by [[Paul Jabara]]]]
Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer wrote the song over the course of one afternoon in 1979, intending it for [[Donna Summer]], who had scored a hit with "[[Last Dance (Donna Summer song)|Last Dance]]" (1978).<ref name="vanityfair">{{cite magazine|last=Wayne|first=George|title=Celebs, Jokes, and Rock 'n' Roll!|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/11/wayne-shaffer-200911|magazine=Vanity Fair|access-date=July 20, 2013|date=November 2009|quote=Paul Shaffer: Paul Jabara called me up and said, "I've got a great song for Donna Summer. I want you to write the song with me. What do you think about 'It's Raining Men'?" We wrote it in one afternoon. Lyrically she hated it, because she had become a born-again Christian. She thought it was blasphemous. She called Paul [Jabara] and said, 'I hate the song. Oh, we've lost you.' And then she sent him a Bible the next day.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Edwards|first=David|title=Fox News introduces Romney sons with gay anthem 'It's Raining Men'|url=http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/27/fox-news-introduces-romney-sons-with-gay-anthem-its-raining-men/|access-date=July 20, 2013|work=The Raw Story|date=August 27, 2012|archive-date=July 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717231727/http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/27/fox-news-introduces-romney-sons-with-gay-anthem-its-raining-men/|url-status=dead}}<!-- Quote from The Raw Story article: "The song "It's Raining Men" was written in 1979 by David Letterman sidekick Paul Shaffer and gay songwriter Paul Jabara…" --></ref><ref name="huffingtonpost">[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/pollo-del-mar/post_10720_b_8780734.html Gay Anthem "It's Raining Men" Almost Didn't Get Made, Says Singer Martha Wash]. Huffington Post. Retrieved on February 5, 2019</ref> However, as Shaffer later recalled, Summer had recently become a [[Born again|born-again]] Christian and rejected the song as "blasphemous".<ref name="vanityfair" /><ref name="huffingtonpost"/><ref name="popcultureexperiment">[https://popcultureexperiment.com/2016/06/13/cover-songs-uncovered-its-raining-men/ Cover Songs Uncovered: "It's Raining Men"]. Pop Culture Experiment. Retrieved on February 5, 2019</ref> The song was then offered to [[Diana Ross]], [[Cher]], and [[Barbra Streisand]], all of whom declined it.<ref name="popcultureexperiment"/>

In 1982, the song was offered to [[the Weather Girls]] (then known as the Two Tons and formerly known as Two Tons O' Fun). [[Martha Wash]] and [[Izora Armstead]] of the Two Tons also dismissed the song. Wash recounted "We thought it was a crazy song — in fact, too crazy to record. I kept saying, 'It's raining men? Really? Are you kidding me?'... I just did not think people would buy it... That's why I kept saying no."<ref name="popcultureexperiment"/> The duo eventually recorded the song in ninety minutes after Jabara persistently pleaded with them to record the song.<ref name="huffingtonpost"/> The Waters Sisters (Julia Waters-Tillman and Maxine Waters-Willard), Stephanie Spruill, and Zenobia Conkerite performed background vocals on the chorus of the song.