'Just as the movie upended its genre, Bacharach’s music for Butch Cassidy subverted audience expectations of what a Western score should sound like.'
Watching the scene on a moviola, Bacharach knew the song would start with a ukulele, he wrote in his autobiography,“I wrote the entire melody, and the only words that kept running through my mind from top to bottom were ‘Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head,’” he recalled. David tried to come up with another title, as the sun is shining brightly throughout the sequence.
The 20th Century Fox board, Bacharach wrote, was against the song. It considered it “too risky and unconventional.” But the song worked much in the way that the out-of-period Scott Joplin rags worked in Hill’s film“I’m in the minority,” Thomas, who was fresh off his hit “Hooked on a Feeling” at the time, told“I think the song made sense [in the film]. ‘Raindrops’ is an American song. The song came from Butch, and it says as long as you’re free, you’re okay. It worked for me.
When Thomas performed the vocal for the film’s soundtrack, he was recovering from an acute case of laryngitis. “We got through five takes; I couldn’t have done one more,” he said with a laugh. “I thought I sounded terrible, scratchy. As it turned out, Mr. Bacharach liked that sound. He thought it sounded more authentic.”Herb Alpert,
the label’s cofounder, said, “In the movie you didn’t know how these two likable bandits would end up and Burt Bacharach’s unusual and creative music had the same flavor, and then out of the blue comes ‘Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.’ Now, that’s art.” A single version of “Raindrops” was released in October 1969. “The studio didn’t realize how it would connect with the public and it became a huge hit almost overnight,” Burlingame said. The song went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and stayed there for four weeks. It went on to win the Academy Award for best original song .
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