"Raindrops Keep Fallin 'On My Head " es una canción del famoso cantante estadounidense B.J. Thomas, que fue lanzada como single un 21 de Marzo del año 1969 promocionando la banda sonora de la aclamada cinta Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , que fue dirigida por George Roy Hill and won four Academy Awards, among these the "Best Original Song " g hanks to the composition of Hal David and Burt Bacharach .
all started in the early months of 1969, when award-winning composer and pianist Burt Bacharach was hired by the film's producers BCATSK to get it to come up with songs that reach the original soundtrack. Once
who provided the tape, Bacharach began to take notes on each image until it reached the part where Paul Newman appears bike and he began to occur several tunes to accompany that act. She was immediately came to mind the word 'Raindrops' , and immediately called his friend Hal David to write a prose dedicated to those raindrops falling on the head of a happy, so what was a metaphorical idea about being good and have fun despite the problems.
After finishing the song, both composers began to find hosts that are interpreted in the most effective way, hopefully without losing the magic of harmony as soft and delicate. Thus in the first instance is called Ray Stevens, who went to the recording studio and after watching the film and listening to a version of the song decided to discard the idea of \u200b\u200bfinding " reguleque " . After that failure, Bacharach decided to call, in case "flies" to Bob Dylan and the answer was again a resounding "no". Sure, Dylan in those days walking in other musical and non VOAD was not there to participate in soundtracks.
was a few days to provide the soundtrack and composers already had a tough task: Find an interpreter for his song ...
But one afternoon while Bacharach worked on the soundtrack of "dangerous" , Came to study the famous singer BJ Thomas , who then began a successful solo career, thanks to the success of "Hooked on a Feeling " . On that occasion was the singer Dionne Warwick , BJ friend, who convinced Bacharach to be the producer of the upcoming musical works the artist had in mind. That's how they met, and was at the time when the producer asked me to sing BJ "Raindrops Keep Fallin 'On My Head" . At that time no mention was Thomas the song had already been rejected by several of his colleagues ...
Thomas did not think twice and accepted the offer of Bacharach, but there was a problem: the singer was under laryngitis, and that affected his voice. To avoid wasting time and other singer, Bacharach called a doctor friend and got him a quick reference to your prescribed medications. After that, they traveled to Los Angeles, California to start work on studies of the Scepter label , endonde they recorded 5 shots, which were watched very closely by Bacharach, who was very grumpy for any lost detail. With
shattered her throat, Thomas managed to reach the final version for tape, which contained the melody faster and drew applause from the producers by the harshness of the weary voice of BJ due to laryngitis (?).
spent a few weeks, and recovered BJ Thomas recorded a new version of "Raindrops Keep Fallin 'On My Head" , this was more related to pop and was special to be released as a single commercial.
In October 1969 the new version was published in November and it was all the rage on radio stations worldwide, and in that time achieved a Gold Record the brutal sales. But in January 1970 was the month where the song reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, where he was almost four weeks on top.
In total, "Raindrops Keep Fallin 'On My Head" spent 22 weeks on Billboard important positions, and on top would win an Oscar for song of the year and the best movie soundtrack.
This song officially began the revival musical career of this singer, that just 29 years and became an essential figure for the music of the 70's.
Anyway, a song memorable, epic, marking many generaciones que hoy en día la escuchan para hacer andar los recuerdos y esos días de juventud...
Que la disfruten!
Atila Producciones 
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