Hill agreed, so Bacharach and David set about finding the right singer. But that worked almost like a glove fitting. Hal made it make sense overall, though he tried some other ways first because it’s not the most natural way maybe one would think to write that lyric. It must have been born the same time from the movie, and it made sense in my head. “Even though Hal tried to change it, we never came up with a thing that felt as good. “I kept singing that opening phrase,” he says. But this was an instance when Bacharach came up with the title. In the Bacharach and David songwriting partnership, roles were clearly defined. “Raindrops” began in an uncharacteristic way. Though Hill was initially opposed to the idea of a pop song with a lyric, Bacharach talked him into it. Director George Roy Hill wanted something evocative of the period for a particular scene where Newman takes a romantic bike ride with Katherine Ross. In the summer of that year, Bacharach was writing the score for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as 1890s train robbers.
But their biggest hit was just around the corner.
Raindrops keep faling movie#
With over 20 Top 40 singles by their vocal muse Dionne Warwick, cover versions of their songs by an A-Z of artists including Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones and Ella Fitzgerald, movie soundtracks, TV specials and a Broadway musical, they’d done it all. By late 1969, Burt Bacharach and Hal David were kings of the pop songwriting game.
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