Who sang raindrops are falling on my head movie#

Who sang raindrops are falling on my head movie#

'The song, initially when it came out, I believe it was October of 69, the movie didn't come out until December, it did get some bad reviews. Billboard Magazine also ranked the song 15th on its Top 50 Movie Songs of All Time list in 2014. In 2008, the single was ranked 85th on Billboard's Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs and placed 95th in the 55th Anniversary edition of the All-Time Hot 100 list in 2013. In 2004, it finished at number 23 on AFI's 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. The trumpet solos in the song are performed by Chuck Findlay. Bob Dylan is supposed to have been approached for the song, but he, too, reportedly declined. He chose instead to record the song 'Sunday Morning Coming Down', written by Kris Kristofferson. Ray Stevens was first offered the opportunity to record it for the film, but turned it down. According to Billboard magazine, Thomas' single had sold over 2 million copies by March 14, 1970, with eight-track and cassette versions also climbing the charts.Ģ Chart performance 2.1 Weekly singles charts The song also spent seven weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in January 1970 and was also the first American number-one hit of the 1970s. Thomas reached number 1 on charts in the United States, Canada, Norway and reached number 38 in the UK Singles Chart. The film version featured a separate vaudeville-style instrumental break in double time while Paul Newman performed bicycle stunts. In the film version of the song, Thomas had been recovering from laryngitis, which made his voice sound hoarser than in the 7-inch release.

Thomas in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six. David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score.

It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' is a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.