Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (disambiguation)

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" Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head " is song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

"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. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. David and Bacharach also won 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 hoarser 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.

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head may also refer to:

<i>Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head</i> (Andy Williams album) 1970 studio album by Andy Williams

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head is the twenty-fifth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in the spring of 1970 by Columbia Records. Williams was less focused on covering recent hits on this project and instead selected several songs from the singer-songwriter genre. Billboard magazine opined that the album "may well be titled 'A Journey Through Life.' Through carefully selected songs it conveys a message of dreams, hopes, reality, frustrations and ultimate truth."

<i>Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head</i> (Johnny Mathis album) 1970 studio album by Johnny Mathis

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on February 25, 1970, by Columbia Records and included several covers of chart hits from the previous year along with 1964's "Watch What Happens" and the 1966 tunes "Alfie" and "A Man and a Woman".

<i>Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head</i> (Mel Tormé album) 1969 studio album by Mel Tormé

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head is a 1969 studio album by Mel Tormé.

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