“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” is a song written byHal David andBurt Bacharach;for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It won an Oscar for Best Original Song.vDavid and Bacharach also won an Oscar for Best Original Score. The song was recorded by B. J. Thomas in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six. In the film version of the song, Thomas had been recovering from laryngitis, which made his voice sound more abrasive than in the 7-inch release<. The film version featured a separate vaudeville-style instrumental break in double time while Paul Newman performed bicycle stunts.

The single byB. J. Thomasreached No. 1 on charts in the United States, Canada, Norway and reached No. 38 in the UK Singles Chart. It topped the Billboard Hot 100for four weeks in January 1970 and was also the first American No. 1 hit of the 1970s. The song also spent seven weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 4 song of 1970. 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.

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