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
Oscar W. Newman Oscar W. Newman Oscar W. Newman (April 14, 1867 – February 19, 1928) was a jurist from Portsmouth, Ohio, United States who was elected as a Democrat to a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court from 1913 to 1918. Oscar W. Newman was born to George O. and Clay B. Moore Newman of Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio on April 14, 1867. He graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1884. He studied at Kenyon College for three years, and then studied law in his father's office before admission to the bar in 1889, when he joined his father's law practice. In