Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David especially for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with Paul Newman e Katharine Ross. The scene was a romantic bike ride, and director George Roy Hill wanted something light and optimistic. Bob Dylan was the first guest to record but declined, Ray Stevens also declined. B. J. Thomas accepted and recorded the track while recovering from laryngitis, the hoarse, tired voice that came out was exactly what Bacharach loved (he made Thomas repeat until the seventh take). There is a specific film version (with a vaudeville instrumental break to accompany Newman's stunts) and another recorded weeks later for the single.
Released in late 1969, it became the first Billboard Hot 100 of the 1970s (four weeks at the top in January), won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and became the biggest hit of B. J. Thomas's career.
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