"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" Quiz

Answer: feet are

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" was originally sung by B.J. Thomas. Billy Joe Thomas was born on August 7, 1942 in Houston, Texas. He married his first wife, Gloria, on December 9, 1968 and they have a total of three children, Paige, Nora and Erin.

Answer: fit

Did you know that B.J. Thomas also sung the theme song, ("As Long as We Got Each Other"), to the sitcom, "Growing Pains" along with Jennifer Warnes? B.J. recorded a 2nd version of the theme song with Dusty Springfield.

Answer: sun done

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" was composed by Burt Bacharach. Burt was born on May 12, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri. Burt married his first wife, Paula Stewart in 1953 and they were divorced in 1958. Burt married his second wife, actress Angie Dickinson, in 1966 and divorced her in 1980.

His third marriage was to Carole Bayer Sager in 1982. She gave birth to their son, Christopher, in 1986 and their marriage ended in 1991. His fourth marriage was to Jane Hansen whom he married in 1993.

Answer: sleepin' on the job

Burt Bacharach not only composed music for the film, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), he's composed the title theme to 1958's "The Blob", was the lyricist for 1981's "Arthur" and appeared as himself in all three of the "Austin Powers" films.

Answer: meet, defeat, greet

Hal David was born on May 25, 1921 in New York, New York. Besides being an Oscar winner for his lyrics to "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head", his songs "Walk on By", "Don't Make Me Over" and "Close to You" are in the Grammy's Hall of Fame. In addition, he has written the lyrics to film scores for such films as "A House is Not a Home" (1964), "What's New pussycat" (1965), "Casino Royale" (1967), "The April Fools" (1969), "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), "Monte Walsh" (1970), "The Raging Moon" (1971), "Lost Horizon" (1973), "Oklahoma Crude" (1973), "The Return of the Pink Panther" (1975), "Journey into Fear" (1975), "Moonraker" (1979) and "Fargo" (1996).

Answer: eyes

Hal David's older brother, Mack, was born on July 5, 1912 and passed away on December 30, 1993. Mack produced 1957's TV series, "Colt .45", wrote the title song to "Casper the Friendly Ghost" (1945), wrote the themes to "Cheyenne" (1955), "Sugarfoot" (1957), "Bronco" (1958), "77 Sunset Strip" (1958), "Lawman" (1958), "The Alaskans" (1959), "Bourbon Street Beat" (1959), "Hawaiian Eye" (1959), "Surfside 6" (1960) and "The Roaring 20's" (1960). Mack also wrote the title songs to 1962's "To Kill a Mokingbird" and 1964's "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte".

Answer: free

Just thought I'd add something fun here. If you rearranged the letters in "Raindrops keep falling on my head", you'll get, "Happy dream in folk song I learned", "OK, dear, happy song learned in film" & "An old song, happy like finer dream".

Answer: greet, eyes

If you rearranged the letters in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", you'd get, "Deducted US city banks, cash-in-hand", "Dudes snatch city cash, bunk, and die" & "Dud, dusty technicians chased bank".

Answer: free

In 1988, Burt Bacharach and Hal David won an ASCAP Award for Most Performed Feature Film Standards for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head". This song also won Burt a Golden Globe in 1970 for Best Original Score, a nomination for Best Original Song and a Grammy for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show.

Answer: True

Burt Bacharach composed the music to this hit song and won two Oscars in 1970. One for Best Music, Original Song and one for Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical)
for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969). The lyrics were written by Hal David, who shared in the win of the Best Music, Original Song Oscar, and the song was sung by B.J. Thomas.