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Thomas' Biggest Billboard Hits: 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' & More You can hear the gentle philosophizing of “Raindrops” – sure, things are bad right now, but I refuse to get stuck here – in such future Hot 100-toppers as Neil Diamond’s “Song Sung Blue” and Daniel Powter’s “Bad Day.”ī.J.

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But it may have been their most universal, a song that everybody who has ever had a bad day or a rough patch could relate to.ĭavid’s lyric has a dash of whimsical humor (“So, I just did me some talkin’ to the sun/ And I said I didn’t like the way he got things done/ Sleepin’ on the job”) and a lot of philosophical wisdom (“Crying’s not for me/’Cause I’m never gonna stop the rain by complainin’”), with Thomas’ delivery landing gently on each word like the titular droplets. “Raindrops…” was hardly the most sophisticated song that Burt Bacharach and Hal David - the duo who’d penned many of the most pristine and affecting pop songs of the late ’50s and ’60s, including most of Dionne Warwick’s signature smashes - ever wrote. Thomas, 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' Singer, Dies at 78 “At the time, it seemed like a dumb idea. “When the film was released, I was highly critical - how did the song fit with the film? There was no rain,” Redford told USA Today in 2019, a half-century later. Good thing the film’s director, George Roy Hill, didn’t listen to one of his film’s stars (and a future director of note), who wasn’t sure the song made sense in the film. Thomas’ “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” was the right song at the right time in the right film – the 1969 Paul Newman/Robert Redford blockbuster Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. 1, the enduring optimist’s anthem “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head.”ī.J.

Thomas with a look at his first Hot 100 No.

1 single - by taking an extended look back at the chart-topping songs that made them part of this exclusive club. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer - a Billboard Hot 100 No.