"Alfie" is best understood as part of the dominance of sophisticated craft in MOR at the dawn of the '70s, a horizon to which Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head is proudly a part of. Perhaps it's possible to read Mathis' interpretation of "Alfie" as pushing homoerotic boundaries, but the message at best feels coded. Mathis, who last saw the inside of Billboard's Top 40 in 1963, had his eyes on the times, as did Gold, who helped give the LP a feel that's certainly lush but determined to dodge the Mitch Miller-endorsed middle of the road. The song was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Howard Gable, a New Zealander, produced the track, and it ended up being a big hit in the Land Down Under. These are overshadowed by numbers by George Harrison ("Something"), Paul Simon ("Bridge Over Troubled Water"), and Fred Neil ("Everybody's Talkin'"), every one of which defines the transition from the '60s to the '70s. John Farnham’s Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head John Farnham’s rendition came out in 1969 as the second single from his third studio album, Looking Through a Tear (1970). Gold continued with this formula on 1970's Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, an album filled with modern classics, including selections from McKuen, Webb, and three from Bacharach & David. 2, which contains 15 of his studio albums and two compilations and was released on November 29, 2002.Johnny Mathis began working with Jack Gold in 1969 and the producer helped nudge the singer into the modern age, having him cover songs from Rod McKuen, Jimmy Webb, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, and songs from hit films. Collectables included this CD in a box set entitled Classic Album Collection, Vol. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head was released on compact disc for the first time as one of two albums on one CD by Collectables Records on January 22, 2002, the other album being Williams's Columbia release from the fall of 1969, Get Together with Andy Williams. That version was released as a non-album single on April 30, 1968, and reached number 75 pop and number four Easy Listening. The track from Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head that was left off of the Can't Help Falling in Love album in the UK was a new recording of "Sweet Memories", a song that Williams originally recorded in March 1968 with Nick DeCaro producing and arranging. The other song that was on the UK album but not the original was "It's So Easy", which entered the UK singles chart on August 1 of that year and peaked at number 13 over the course of 14 weeks.
The song debuted on the UK singles chart on March 14, 1970, and lasted there 17 weeks, four of which were spent at number three. It also began a three-week run on the magazine's chart of the week's 40 most popular Easy Listening (or Adult Contemporary) songs in that issue, where it eventually made it to number 28. Become A Better Singer In Only 30 Days, With Easy Video Lessons Raindrops keep fallin' on my head Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed Nothing seems to fit Oh, raindrops keep fallin' on my head Keep a-fallin' Cause I just done me some talking to the sun And I said I didn't like the way he got things done Sleeping on the job Oh. As a non-album single in the US, it entered Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart in the issue dated February 28, 1970, and spent three weeks there, getting as high as number 88. The song "Can't Help Falling in Love" was one of the two tracks from the UK version of the album that did not appear on the original release. It entered the UK album chart that same month, on June 20, and reached number seven over the course of 48 weeks. For its release in the UK, the name of the album was changed to Can't Help Falling in Love, and the song selection and track order were slightly different. The album made its first appearance on the Top LP's chart in the issue of Billboard magazine dated June 13, 1970, and remained on the album chart for 19 weeks, peaking at number 43. Billboard magazine opined that the album "may well be titled 'A Journey Through Life.' Through carefully selected songs it conveys a message of dreams, hopes, reality, frustrations and ultimate truth." Listen to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ((Music from the Motion Picture)) by Burt Bacharach on Apple Music. Williams was less focused on covering recent hits on this project and instead selected several songs from the singer-songwriter genre. Stream songs including 'The Sundance Kid', 'Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head' and more. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the spring of 1970 by Columbia Records.
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