Ann Peebles is an African American singer-songwriter who gained celebrity for her Memphis soul albums of the 1970s on the Hi Records label. Two of her most popular songs are I Can't Stand the Rain and I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down, which she wrote with her husband, Don Bryant, and radio broadcaster Bernie Miller and were subsequently popularized in cover versions by, among others, Eruption and Paul Young, respectively.
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