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BJ Thomas: Grammy-winning musician who sang Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The musician in 1970. Before he found religion in 1976, Thomas was spending thousands of dollars on cocaine every day and overdosed several timesAfter being turned down by Bob Dylan and Ray Stevens, lyricist Hal David and musician Burt Bacharach chose Thomas to sing their composition, a quaint, easy-listening, optimistic ballad with an orchestra backing the relaxed vocal.

For the film, it included a trumpet solo that accompanied a scene of Paul Newman performing bicycle stunts while on a romantic ride with Katharine Ross.

Thomas, suffering from laryngitis, recorded the song that bookends it in seven takes after Bacharach was unhappy with the first six.

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