"The Rain, the Park & Other Things" is a pop song with music and lyrics co-written by Artie Kornfeld and Steve Duboff.

For this record, the arranger was Jimmy Wisner, musicians included Gene Bianco on harp,[7] Vinnie Bell, Charles Macy and Al Gorgoni on guitar, Joe Macho on bass, Artie Butler on organ, Paul Griffin on piano, George Devens on percussion, and Buddy Saltzman and Al Rogers on drums.

[6] The song was originally recorded at A&R Studios in New York with Brooks Arthur engineering the session.

[9] That was its original title, but MGM Records president Mort Nasatir suggested that the title be changed in order to avoid confusion with Scott McKenzie's contemporaneous hit single, "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)".

However, the narrator still feels happy about the flower girl, and asks in the final verse: "Was she reality, or just a dream to me?"