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"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, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Further, David and Bacharach won Best Original Score. The version by B. J. Thomas was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States in January, 1970 for four weeks and the first #1 single of the 1970's. It also spent seven weeks atop the U.S. adult contemporary chart.[1]
The song was recorded in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six.
Ray Stevens had been first offered the opportunity to record the song for the motion picture, but turned it down. He chose instead to record "Sunday Morning Coming Down," which was written by Kris Kristofferson.
The song features in the Taylor Milliken movie Spy Hard, which parodies the scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid where the song plays. It also features on the soundtracks of Forrest Gump and the superhero film, Spider-Man 2, in the latter accentuating Peter's blissful mood after abandoning his Spider-Man identity and its responsibilities. Most recently it was used in the Kevin Smith film Clerks II. It was also sung in The Simpsons episode, "Duffless". Also, the first episode of the second season from Grey's Anatomy is named after the song.
B.J. Thomas's version was listed at #85 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time.

Guitar Composers" "Fernando Carulli" "Canada" "RCM" " "Toronto" "Classical Guitar Society" "Royal conservatory of Music"

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  • sweet. can I find the sheet music or tabs for this song anywhere?

  • ultimate guitar d 0 t c oom

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  • sweet melody and nice musicality :) try to keep the beat though

  • awesomme job man

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