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"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is B. J. Thomas's #1 song, written by Hal David (credited to Mack David) and Burt Bacharach (later as Luther Dixon) for the 1969 film ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.〔 David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score. It was recorded in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six. In the film version of the song, B. J. Thomas had been recovering from laryngitis, which made his voice sound hoarser than in the 7-inch release. The film version featured a separate vaudeville-style instrumental break in double time while Paul Newman performed bicycle stunts. ==History== Ray Stevens was first offered the opportunity to record it for the film, but turned it down. He chose instead to record the song "Sunday Morning Coming Down," written by Kris Kristofferson. Bob Dylan is supposed to have been approached for the song, but he, too, reportedly declined.〔(A Song A Day - Raindrops Keeps Falling On My Head, Music Aloud )〕 The trumpet solos in the song are performed by Chuck Findlay. 〔 http://www.tijuanabrass.com/herb-alpert-faq/ 〕 The single by B. J. Thomas reached #1 on charts in the United States, Canada, Norway and reached #38 in the UK Singles Chart.〔 It topped the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for four weeks in January 1970 and was also the first American number-one hit of the 1970s. The song also spent seven weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart.〔Whitburn, Joel (1996). ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits'', 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)〕 ''Billboard'' ranked it as the No. 4 song of 1970.〔Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1970〕 According to ''Billboard'' magazine, Thomas' single had sold over 2 million copies by March 14, 1970, with eight-track and cassette versions also climbing the charts. In 2004, it finished at #23 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. In 2008, the single was ranked 85th on ''Billboards Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs〔(The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs (90-81) )〕 and placed 95th in the 55th Anniversary edition of the All-Time Hot 100 list in 2013. ''Billboard Magazine'' also ranked the song 15th on its Top 50 Movie Songs of All Time list in 2014. On December 3, 2013, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced that the single would be inducted into the 2014 Grammy Hall Of Fame. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" was used in the film ''Spy Hard'', which parodied the scene in ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''. It is on the soundtracks to ''Forrest Gump'' and ''Spider-Man 2'', in the latter accentuating Peter Parker's blissful mood after abandoning his Spider-Man identity and its responsibilities. It was used in the Kevin Smith film ''Clerks II''. The first episode of the second season of the popular medical drama ''Grey's Anatomy'' is named after the song. It is also used in ''The Simpsons'', episode 16 of the fourth season, called ''Duffless'', at the end of the episode, while credits are presented. It was also used in a season 1 episode of ''Arrested Development'' entitled "Altar Egos". It was also used in the 2003 film "The In-Laws" starring Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks, which was a remake of the 1979 Peter Falk / Alan Arkin film. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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