Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (1970)

Welcome! We're beginning our series on Greatest Hits 98.1 with the the very FIRST #1 song of the '70s!

“Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” was written by the legendary songwriting team of Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the bicycle sequence in 1969's “Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid,” the now-legendary western starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

Ray Stevens was the first choice to record it, but for some reason, he turned it down. Bob Dylan also declined. The late B.J. Thomas was next on the list, and in this case, the “third choice was the charm.” :-)

Released toward the end of 1969, the song became 1970's first #1 song on Billboard's Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts, where it stayed for the entire month of January! It also reached #1 in Canada, Norway and South Africa.

And the accolades kept coming:

*It won the Oscar for “Best Original Song.” *Billlboard ranked it at #95 on their “All Time Top 100” and at #15 on their list of the “Greatest Movie Songs of All Time.” *The American Film Institute ranked it #23 on their“100 Years/100 songs” list, commemorating the best movie songs of all time. *In 2014, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

“Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head:” a GREAT SONG to start a GREAT DECADE of music!

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