The same year, it finished at number 23 on AFI's 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. The song was featured during the 2004 superhero film Spider-Man 2 over a montage sequence when Peter Parker ( Tobey Maguire) initially renounces his identity as Spider-Man. Gold record presented to backup singer Linda November for her work on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' The trumpet solos in the song are performed by Chuck Findley. Bob Dylan is supposed to have been approached for the song, but he reportedly declined too. 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. 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 huskier than in the 7-inch release. Thomas in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six. 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. 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 No. 1 on charts in the United States, Canada and Norway, and reached No. The uplifting lyrics describe somebody who overcomes his troubles and worries by realizing that 'it won't be long 'till happiness steps up to greet me.' ' Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' on YouTube Song for song, itвЂ™s not quite as interesting as Young and in Love, but it holds together as well as that album, and offered a better indication of B.J.вЂ™s career path.From the motion picture, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidДЇrom the album Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head This orchestrated, yet not dramatic, arrangement is the sound of Raindrops and itвЂ™s the sound of mainstream crossover pop of the late вЂ60s, the sound that Thomas made his own starting with this very record. gives it an appropriately soft and symphonic treatment. WhatвЂ™s most revealing is Thomas' choice of вЂњThe Greatest LoveвЂќ from Joe South - itвЂ™s one of SouthвЂ™s poppiest numbers, and B.J.

Bacharach & David are heard on the title track and вЂњThis GuyвЂ™s In Love with You,вЂќ Jimmy Webb has two songs (вЂњIf You Must Leave My Life,вЂќ вЂњDo What You Gotta DoвЂќ), Mark James, author of вЂњHooked on a Feeling,вЂќ has two cuts, including вЂњSuspicious Minds,вЂќ and Bobby RussellвЂ™s вЂ60s standard вЂњLittle Green ApplesвЂќ gets an airing. Naturally, вЂњRaindrops Keep Falling on My HeadвЂќвЂ™s prominent position in Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid was instrumental in this breakthrough - its blockbuster status guaranteeing Thomas a bump - but the LP Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head followed through on the single, abandoning any lingering Texas soul influences remaining in Thomas and focusing firmly on pop. Thomas had hits before вЂњRaindrops Keep Falling on My HeadвЂќ - big ones, too, like вЂњHooked on a FeelingвЂќ - but that 1969 single made his career, establishing him as a first-class adult contemporary singer.

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