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
Paul Newman the set in 1957 (they had first met in 1953). He won Best Actor at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for this film. He had a supporting role in the Coen brothers' first big-budget production, 1994's "The Hudsucker Proxy". Newman starred in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)", "The Young Philadelphians" (1959), "Exodus" (1960), "From the Terrace", (1960), "The Hustler" (1961), "Hud" (1963), Torn Curtain (1966), "Harper" (1966), "Hombre" (1967), "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), "The Towering Inferno" (1974), "Slap Shot" (1977), "Absence of Malice" (1981) and "The Verdict" (1982). He teamed with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George