Oscar-Nominated Songs: Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head

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Gee, will you look at the time? I’m late! Because of the cold weather (although it’s nowhere near as cold as it was before Christmas) I’m staying snuggled up at home. I was also chatting with my brother. But I’m here, and with me comes another song nominated for an Academy Award for “Best Original Song.” Here’s today’s tune. Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head - B.J. Thomas I hate movies like this. It’s like the TV show Daniel Boone, which was popular when I was little. There’s a statue of Daniel Boone at the entrance to Cherokee Park here, and I always told my mom when we’d pass it, “That doesn’t look anything like Fess Parker.” Same here! Butch Cassidy didn’t look like Paul Newman! What’s up with that!! Actually, that’s okay, because there’s a pretty fictitious ending to the movie. At the end, they attack like “brave he-men.” In reality, Cassidy shot the Sundance Kid (real name: Harry Longabaugh) to end his suffering after being mortally wounded by the posse, then Cassidy shot himself. That doesn’t make for good Hollywood endings, so…. This song became a huge hit for B.J. Thomas, and was one of his two #1 pop hits (the other being “[Hey Won’t You Play] Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song”). With its popularity, an Oscar victory was a shoo-in. In addition to the song Oscar, the film won Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, and an Original Score for Bacharach (this moving giving him two of his three Oscars, with the third being for the previously-used “Arthur’s Theme”). It was nominated for Best Picture, despite bad reviews when it was released, but lost to Midnight Cowboy. Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David Recorded by B.J. Thomas Oscar Winner From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969 Nothing’s worrying me: