From Januto March 13 it was a number-one hit (for seven weeks) in Australia on the Go-Set National Top 40 for local pop singer, Johnny Farnham. The song has been covered numerous times. Please relocate any relevant information into other sections or articles. It was also used in the 2003 film "The In-Laws" starring Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks, which was a remake of the 1979 Peter Falk / Alan Arkin film.Ĭovers This article contains a list of miscellaneous information. It was also used in a season 1 episode of Arrested Development entitled "Altar Egos". It is also used in The Simpsons, episode 16 of the fourth season, called Duffless, at the end of the episode, while credits are presented. The first episode of the second season of the popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy is named after the song. It was used in the Kevin Smith film Clerks II. It is on the soundtracks to Forrest Gump and Spider-Man 2, in the latter accentuating Peter Parker's blissful mood after abandoning his Spider-Man identity and its responsibilities. Police Constable Pan-Am sings the opening lines at the end of his appearance in Series 2, Episode 4 of Monty Python's Flying Circus. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" was used in the film Spy Hard, which parodied the scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. On December 3, 2013, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced that the single would be inducted into the 2014 Grammy Hall Of Fame. Thomas, Interview, Pods o' Pop (August 22, 2011) But, when the movie came out it hit hugely and sold about 200,000 to 300,000 records a day for about three years." So nowadays, it sounds pretty tame, but back then, radio resisted it to some degree. It was a very unique and different sounding song, Bacharach and David never had any qualms about trying to do anything different, or push the envelope so to speak. "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.
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