Burt Bacharach The year 1969 marked, perhaps, the most successful Bacharach-David collaboration, the Oscar-winning "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head", written for and prominently featured in the acclaimed film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". The two were awarded a Grammy for Best Cast album of the year for "Promises, Promises" and the score was also nominated for a Tony award. Other Oscar nominations for Best Song in the latter half of the 1960s were for "The Look Of Love", "What's New Pussycat" and "Alfie". Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bacharach continued to write and produce for artists, compose for
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (Johnny Mathis album) 26 weeks on their Top LP's chart just a few issues later and got as high as number 38. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" was released for the first time on compact disc in 1995 as one of two albums on one CD, the other LP being the 1971 Mathis title "Love Story". Joe Viglione of Allmusic remarked that "Mathis rarely gets credit for the way he can bend and shape notes, obvious on "Something" as well as his reading of "Honey Come Back", Glen Campbell's 1970 hit." He also praised the album as a whole. "The sound with