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
Charles Durning Best Picture-winner, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Durning won distinction as the crooked cop, Lt. Wm. Snyder, who polices and hustles professional con artists. He doggedly pursues the young grifter, Johnny Hooker (Redford), only to become the griftee in the end. Other film credits include "Dog Day Afternoon" with Al Pacino; "When A Stranger Calls"; "The Final Countdown"; "The Hindenburg"; "Twilight's Last Gleaming" with Burt Lancaster; "True Confessions" with Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. Some television credits include "The Connection"; "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom", the made-for-television musical in which he played the mailman who reaches out to