Sacha Distel Tony Bennett. French lyrics were added in the 1970s and it became Distel's signature tune. During the 1960s, he had a variety show on French television. His only British hit single came in 1970 with a cover of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head", the Oscar-winning Burt Bacharach/Hal David song from the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". Distel's version reached No. 10 in the UK. In the 1970s, he became popular outside France and hosted the Miss World contest in London in 1977. He appeared on TV variety shows in the UK throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (Johnny Mathis album) 26 weeks on their Top LP's chart just a few issues later and got as high as number 38. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" was released for the first time on compact disc in 1995 as one of two albums on one CD, the other LP being the 1971 Mathis title "Love Story". Joe Viglione of Allmusic remarked that "Mathis rarely gets credit for the way he can bend and shape notes, obvious on "Something" as well as his reading of "Honey Come Back", Glen Campbell's 1970 hit." He also praised the album as a whole. "The sound with