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Audio. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" on YouTube. " Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head " is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. [ 5 ][ 6 ] The uplifting lyrics describe somebody who overcomes his troubles and worries by realising that "it won't be long till happiness steps up ...
Burt Freeman Bacharach (/ ˈbækəræk / BAK-ə-rak; May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music. [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] Starting in the 1950s, he composed hundreds of pop songs, many in ...
Phil Ramone. " The Look of Love " is a popular song composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and originally popularized by English pop singer Dusty Springfield. The song is notable for its sensuality and its relaxed bossa nova rhythm. [1][2] The song was featured in an extended slow-motion interlude to the 1967 spoof James Bond film Casino Royale.
Chuck Jackson, Singer of Burt Bacharach's 'Any Day Now,' Dies at 85. Burt Bacharach's Final Recording Session With Elvis Costello, 'You Can Have Her,' Gets a Quiet Release After Songwriter's Death ...
Burt Bacharach, one of the most accomplished and revered songwriters in pop music history, died peacefully in his Los Angeles home yesterday (Feb. 8) at the age of 94. Rising to fame in the ‘50s ...
1. The Drifters, "Mexican Divorce" (1962) After crafting a witty arrangement to illustrate Bob Hilliard's lyric about "an old adobe house where you leave your past behind," Bacharach met Dionne ...
Burt Bacharach Hal David: 93 - 1969: Bobbie Gentry, #1 UK 1969: Dionne Warwick, #6 pop 1990: Deacon Blue (on Four Bacharach & David Songs), #2 UK "Odds and Ends" Dionne Warwick Hal David: 43 - "I'm a Better Man (For Having Loved You)" Engelbert Humperdinck: Hal David: 38 15 "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" B. J. Thomas: Hal David: 1 38
The song stayed at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks and eleven weeks in the Top 10. "(They Long to Be) Close to You" was named Billboard's Song of the Summer for 1970. [9] Bacharach and David gave Herb Alpert the song after he scored a number one hit in 1968 with "This Guy's in Love with You", which the duo had also written ...