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Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (ver. 1) by Burt Bacharach - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
"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. It also spent seven weeks atop the U.S. adult contemporary chart. 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. Burt Bacharach (born May 12; 1928) is an award-winning American pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Burt Bacharach (born May 12; 1928) is an award-winning American pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s; with lyrics written by Hal David; many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick. As of 2006; Bacharach had written a total of 70 Top 40 hits in the US; and 52 Top 40 hits in the UK.Bacharach has been married four times; first to Paula Stewart (19531958); second to actress Angie Dickinson (19651980); third to lyricist Carole Bayer Sager (19821991) with whom he collaborated on a number of pieces and fourth (since 1993) to Jane Strauss Hanson. "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. It also spent seven weeks atop the U.S. adult contemporary chart. The song was recorded in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first.
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