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1972 No.1 Hit With Lyric No Ones Ever Gonna Keep Me Down Again Crossword Clue

1969 song

1969 single by B. J. Thomas

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head.jpg

From the movement picture, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Unmarried by B. J. Thomas
from the album Raindrops Proceed Fallin' on My Head
B-side "Never Had It Then Good"
Released October 1969[1]
Recorded 1969
Studio A&R Recording Studios, New York City
Genre
  • Pop
  • soft stone[2]
Length three:02
Label Scepter
Songwriter(due south)
  • Burt Bacharach
  • Hal David
Producer(s)
  • Burt Bacharach
  • Hal David
B. J. Thomas singles chronology
"Pass the Apple Eve"
(1969) 		"Raindrops Proceed Fallin' on My Head"
(1969) 		"Everybody'due south Out of Boondocks"
(1970)
Sound
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" on YouTube

"Raindrops Go on Fallin' on My Caput" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.[3] The uplifting lyrics depict somebody who overcomes his troubles and worries past realizing that "it won't be long 'till happiness steps up to greet me."[four] [5]

The single by B. J. Thomas reached No. 1 on charts in the U.s.a., Canada and Kingdom of norway, and reached No. 38 in the UK Singles Chart.[3] It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks in January 1970 and was as well the kickoff American No. 1 hit of the 1970s. The song also spent seven weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart.[6] Billboard ranked it as the No. 4 song of 1970. Co-ordinate to Billboard magazine, Thomas' unmarried had sold over 2 million copies past March 14, 1970, with eight-runway and cassette versions also climbing the charts.[7] Information technology won an Oscar for Best Original Song.[three] Bacharach as well won All-time Original Score.

History [edit]

Composition and recording [edit]

The song was recorded past B. J. Thomas in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six. In the picture show version of the vocal, Thomas had been recovering from laryngitis, which made his voice audio huskier than in the seven-inch release. The picture version featured a split vaudeville-way instrumental break in double time while Paul Newman performed wheel stunts.[ commendation needed ]

Ray Stevens was get-go offered the opportunity to tape it for the moving picture, but turned information technology downwardly. He chose instead to record the song "Sunday Morning Coming Down", written past Kris Kristofferson. Bob Dylan is supposed to take been approached for the song, but he reportedly declined too.[8] The trumpet solos in the song are performed by Chuck Findley.[9]

Legacy [edit]

Gold tape presented to fill-in vocaliser Linda November for her work on "Raindrops Continue Fallin' on My Head"

The song was featured during the 2004 superhero motion-picture show Spider-Human being 2 over a montage sequence when Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) initially renounces his identity as Spider-Man.[10] The same yr, it finished at number 23 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. In 2008, the single was ranked 85th on Billboard's Hot 100 All-Time Elevation Songs[11] and placed 95th in the 55th Anniversary edition of the All-Fourth dimension Hot 100 list in 2013.[12] Billboard Mag too ranked the song 15th on its Top 50 Movie Songs of All Time list in 2014.[13]

The song, initially when it came out, I believe it was October of 69, the movie didn't come out until December, it did become some bad reviews. Information technology was a very unique and different sounding song, Bacharach and David never had any qualms about trying to do annihilation dissimilar, or push the envelope so to speak. So present, information technology sounds pretty tame, but back then, radio resisted it to some caste. But, when the flick came out it hit hugely and sold near 200,000 to 300,000 records a twenty-four hours [and connected selling] for nigh three years.

—B.J. Thomas, Interview, Pods o' Pop (August 22, 2011)[14]

On December 3, 2013, the National University of Recording Arts and Sciences announced that the single would be inducted into the 2014 Grammy Hall Of Fame.[fifteen]

Chart performance [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

Cover versions [edit]

The song has been covered numerous times.

  • In 1970, Barbara Mason's cover reached U.South. number 112 and R&B number 38.[30]
  • In 1970, from January 24 to March xiii, it was the number-1 hit (for seven weeks) in Commonwealth of australia on the Get-Set National Top 40 for Johnny Farnham.[21] [31]
  • In 1970, Bobbie Gentry's version, from her anthology Fancy, reached number forty in the United kingdom nautical chart.[iii]
  • In 1970, it was covered in French by French vocaliser Sacha Distel, whose version "Toute La Pluie Tombe Sur Moi" was a number x hit in the Uk Singles Chart,[3] and number 13 in Ireland, as well as number 10 in France. Distel likewise recorded a version with the original English lyrics, and some other in Italian, "Gocce Di Pioggia Su Di Me".
  • In 1970, Portuguese-built-in television and radio presenter Pedro Biker released a Danish version re-entitled "Regndråber Drypper I Mit Hår".[32]
  • In 1970, the song was covered by:
    • Peggy Lee on her anthology Bridge Over Troubled Water, released past Capitol Records.[33]
  • In 1973, the Barry Sisters covered the song in a Yiddish version ("Trop'ns Fin Regen Oif Mein Kop") on their album Our Mode.[34] [35]
  • The 1995 cover version by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers is credited with adding greater nuance to the song, the Fiscal Times citing their recording as transforming the song from carefree optimism to "an exhortation to continue going in the face of tragedy", and noting that Bradfield's phonation "added grit to the facile lyric".[36] The group oft spent their downtime on the tour coach watching the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child, and incorporated the vocal into alive sets. After the disappearance of lyricist Richey Edwards, the band decided to continue rather than separate up. Having booked studio fourth dimension in French republic to record their fourth album, Everything Must Get (1996), they were invited to record for the War Child charity anthology The Help Album (1995). The project required all songs to be recorded in one solar day.[37] While band biographer Simon Cost has described the recording and release of the record as a "coded message" that the band still existed,[38] Bradfield recalls the events differently: "...us putting it out wasn't planned as u.s. saying 'Nosotros're OK, guys!', but the deadline was the next twenty-four hours subsequently we'd arrived in this identify, for some kind of new starting time."[37] The band'southward recorded version of the song contains the kickoff recorded instance of drummer Sean Moore performing on trumpet,[38] and besides appears on their 2003 B-sides and rarities compilation album Lipstick Traces (A Hush-hush History of Manic Street Preachers). The Manics further reference the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with the B-side "Sepia".[39]
  • Lisa Miskovsky covered the song in the extended version of her cocky-titled (2004) album.[40]

Meet likewise [edit]

  • List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s
  • Listing of RPM number-one singles of 1970
  • List of number-1 hits in Norway
  • List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1969 (U.South.)
  • List of number-ane adult contemporary singles of 1970 (U.Due south.)
  • List of Hot 100 number-i singles of 1970 (U.Due south.)

References [edit]

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  2. ^ "Soft Stone Music Songs". AllMusic.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Roberts, David (2006). British Hitting Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Express. p. 136. ISBNane-904994-10-5.
  4. ^ Liebenson, Donald (25 September 2019). "Remembering Butch Cassidy'southward Controversial Smash Hit, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"". Vanity Fair . Retrieved Dec 15, 2020.
  5. ^ "Raindrops Go along Falling On My Caput - BJ Thomas". Nporadio2.nl . Retrieved Dec xv, 2020.
  6. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Volume of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  7. ^ "Photo caption". Billboard. 14 March 1970. p. 1. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  8. ^ "A.Song.A.Day – Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head". Musicaloud.com. 8 November 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  9. ^ "Herb Alpert FAQ | Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass Discography and Collector Resource". Tijuanabrass.com. viii Feb 2007. Retrieved 2016-ten-02 .
  10. ^ Liebenson, Donald (September 25, 2019). "Remembering Butch Cassidy's Controversial Smash Hit, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Caput"". Vanity Fair. Condé Nast. Retrieved Feb 19, 2022.
  11. ^ "The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Meridian Songs (90-81)". Billboard. Archived from the original on Sep 29, 2008. Retrieved December xv, 2020.
  12. ^ Bronson, Fred (two August 2013). "Hot 100 55th Ceremony: The Best Top 100 Songs". Billboard Magazine. Retrieved three August 2014.
  13. ^ Dan, Reilly (27 Feb 2014). "Top 50 Motion picture Songs Of All Time". Billboard Magazine. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  14. ^ B.J. Thomas (2011). Pods o' Pop-BJ Thomas Interview and Songs (MP3). Pods o' Popular. Upshot occurs at 34m 18s. Archived from the original (Sound) on December 12, 2013. Retrieved vii December 2013.
  15. ^ "2014 Grammy Hall of Fame". Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Caput. THE RECORDING University. 3 December 2013. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  16. ^ "Greenbacks Box - International Best Sellers" (PDF). worldradiohistory.com. Greenbacks Box. 13 June 1970. p. 53. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
  17. ^ Nimmervoll, Ed (Jan 24, 1970). "National Top 40". Go-Set up. Waverley Press. Retrieved May 16, 2014. Note: Australian popular singer, Johnny Farnham's embrace version sits at No. 1 (beginning week), while B. J. Thomas' version is at No. 20.
  18. ^ "Hits of the world". Billboard. July 4, 1970. p. 73. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
  19. ^ a b c "Hits of the earth". Billboard. Feb xviii, 1970. p. 65. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
  20. ^ "Flavor of New Zealand". Flavourofnz.co.nz . Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  21. ^ a b Nimmervoll, Ed. "Go-Gear up Australian Charts – Top Records for the Year of 1970: Number 1 Singles 1970". Go-Set up. Waverley Press. Retrieved May xvi, 2014.
  22. ^ "Detail Brandish - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 17 July 2013.
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  25. ^ "Cash Box Yr-Cease Charts: Pinnacle 100 Pop Singles, December 26, 1970". Archived from the original on July 22, 2019. Retrieved July ix, 2017.
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  27. ^ a b "B.J. Thomas Receives Compo Gilt" (PDF). RPM. May 23, 1970. p. 3. Retrieved February xix, 2022.
  28. ^ a b Murrells, Joseph (1985). One thousand thousand selling records from the 1900s to the 1980s : an illustrated directory. Arco Pub. p. 294. ISBN0668064595. By the end of Jan 1970, sales were estimated at ii million in the US.A. lonely. ... and the disc solve over a global iii million
  29. ^ "American single certifications – B.J. Thomas – Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head". Recording Manufacture Association of America.
  30. ^ Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 1959-2004
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  33. ^ "Span Over Troubled Water - Peggy Lee | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  34. ^ "Our Mode". Album Cover Notes. Stereophonic. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  35. ^ "Our Way". MTV. Retrieved 10 April 2014. Label: Reboot Stereophonic
  36. ^ Aspden, Peter (22 May 2015). "The Life of a Vocal: 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head'". Financial Times. Retrieved 18 Oct 2016.
  37. ^ a b Price, Simon (2 June 2016). "And If You Need An Caption: Manic Street Preachers interviewed". Quietus. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
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  40. ^ "Lisa Miskovsky - Lisa Miskovsky (New Version)". Discogs. 2004. Retrieved 30 July 2014. Stockholm Records - 986 737-6

External links [edit]

  • B. J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raindrops_Keep_Fallin%27_on_My_Head