Steve Tyrell worked on the Bacharach-David song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," which went on to win the 1969 Oscar for Best Original Song ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"). His contributions to the film industry include "Mystic Pizza", "That Thing You Do","The Five Heartbeats", "Father of the Bride", "The Brady Bunch Movie", and "Out of Sync". Steve also worked in television and did the music for "California Dreams", "The Heights", and "Frank's Place", among others. Tyrell's performance singing "The Way You Look Tonight" in "Father of the Bride", starring Steve Martin, pushed him center-stage as a vocalist, with live performances
WALL-E himself. A similar switch occurred for the sequence in which WALL-E attempts to wake EVE up through various means; originally, the montage would play with the instrumental version of "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", but Newman wanted to challenge himself and scored an original piece for the sequence. The film is recognized as social criticism. Katherine Ellison asserts that "Americans produce nearly 400 million tons of solid waste per year but recycle less than a third of it, according to a recent Columbia University study." Landfills are filling up so quickly that the UK may run out of landfill