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
Robert G. Newman Robert G. Newman Robert G. Newman (* October 26th 1937 in The Hague; † August 1st 2018 in New York City) was an US-american physician, scientist, health manager and philanthroph. Robert Gabriel Newman was born in The Hague, Netherlands, as child of german emigrants. At that time his parents, as jews, were on the escape from national-socialist Germany. The father, Rudolph Neumann (later Randolph Newman), and the mother Eva Neumann born Feilchenfeldt (later Eva Newman) both were legal practitioners. The family then moved to New York City in August 1939. After the end of WW2 Newman for some years lived