Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head "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
Diana Hyland "The Chase" (1966) with Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Robert Redford. In 1959, she originated the role on Broadway of Heavenly Finley in Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth", appearing with Geraldine Page and Paul Newman. In 1966, she co-starred in the movie "Smoky" in which she played Julie Richards, owner of the Rockin' R Ranch, who falls in love with Clint Barkeley (Fess Parker), owner of Smokey, a black stallion turned cutting horse. The same year she appeared in an episode of the TV series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." titled "The Candidate's Wife Affair". From 1958 to 1963, Hyland