Odds and Ends (song)
" Odds and Ends" is a 1969 song by Dionne Warwick, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
It was released as a non-album single.
Narrowly missing the U.S." Billboard" Top 40, it reached the Top 20 on the Adult Contemporary charts of Canada and the U.S., where it peaked at number seven.
The song was covered by Johnny Mathis on his 1970 LP," Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head".
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (Andy Williams album)
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head is the twenty- fifth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in the spring of 1970 by Columbia Records.
Williams was less focused on covering recent hits on this project and instead selected several songs from the singer- songwriter genre.
" 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."
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.
For its release in the UK, the name of the album was changed to" Ca n't Help Falling in Love", and the song selection and track order were slightly different.
It entered the UK album chart that same month, on June 20, and reached number seven over the course of 48 weeks.
The song" Ca n'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.
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.
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.
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.
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 track from" Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" that was left off of the" Ca n'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.
That version was released as a non-album single on April 30, 1968, and reached number 75 pop and number four Easy Listening.
" 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".
Collectables included this CD in a box set entitled" Classic Album Collection, Vol. 2", which contains 15 of his studio albums and two compilations and was released on November 29, 2002.
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (disambiguation)
" Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head may also refer to:
Odds and Ends (song)
" Odds and Ends" is a 1969 song by Dionne Warwick, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
It was released as a non-album single.
Narrowly missing the U.S." Billboard" Top 40, it reached the Top 20 on the Adult Contemporary charts of Canada and the U.S., where it peaked at number seven.
The song was covered by Johnny Mathis on his 1970 LP," Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head".
Looking Through a Tear
Looking Through A Tear is the third studio album by Australian pop singer Johnny Farnham, the title of which relates to a song on the album, which is a cover of an Aretha Franklin number.
it was released in Australia by EMI Records in July 1970.
Farnham's covers of Harry Nilsson's penned" One" which became a hit for Three Dog Night and a cover B. J. Thomas' single" Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" were released as singles, and helped to propel the album to# 11 on the Australian Kent Music Report Album Charts.
" One Mr. Whippy"( non-album track) was released as a double A- side in July 1969 and peaked at# 4 on the" Go- Set" National Singles Charts.
" Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" was released in November and peaked at# 1 for seven weeks in January – March 1970.
Farnham wrote two songs for the album.
Boxing (song)
" Boxing" is a song from Ben Folds Five's 1995 self- titled debut album.
It was written by Ben Folds.
A live version appears on the 1998 album" Naked Baby Photos".
The song also appears in a solo version by Folds on the 2005 download- only album" iTunes Originals- Ben Folds" and in a symphonic version with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra on the 2005 DVD" Ben Folds and WASO Live in Perth", and in an a cappella version on.
The song was inspired by Ben Folds' father's love of boxing, and is written from the perspective of Muhammad Ali about the indecision whether or not to quit boxing professionally.
The hypothetical monologue is addressed to Howard Cosell, the famous sports announcer who covered boxing matches of that era.
Bette Midler covered the song on her 1998 album" Bathhouse Betty".
Jon Foreman of Switchfoot covered the song on a rare cover compilation only found on the internet entitled" Songs By Other Folk".
B. J. Thomas
Billy Joe Thomas( born August 7, 1942) is an American singer.
He is particularly known for his hit songs of the 1960s and 1970s, which appeared on the pop, country, and Christian music charts.
His best- known recordings are the Burt Bacharach and Hal David song" Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" and the original version of the Mark James song" Hooked on a Feeling".
On My Way (Louis Armstrong song)
" On My Way" is a Louis Armstrong song that appeared on the album" Louis and the Good Book" in 1958 and was issued with" I'll String Along with You" as a single in 1959.
It features a solo section with Louis and Trummy Young.
A variant of I'm on My Way( traditional song), Armstrong's version starts with" On My Way" or" I'm on My Way"( or similar phrases in various versions) and then goes into a chorus
" On my way now, got on my traveling shoes ...".
The song is no relation to" Oh, Lawd, I'm on My Way!", a song sung by Ella Fitzgerald the previous year( 1957) on the" Porgy and Bess" album by Fitzgerald and Armstrong.
That song begins:" Porgy and all, I'm on my way to a heav'nly lan.
Come Saturday Morning (song)
" Come Saturday Morning" is a popular song with music by Fred Karlin and lyrics by Dory Previn, published in 1970.
It was first performed by The Sandpipers on the soundtrack of the 1969 film" The Sterile Cuckoo" starring Liza Minnelli.
The Sandpipers also included the song on their 1970 album," Come Saturday Morning".
In 1970," Come Saturday Morning" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, losing to Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head from the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The Sandpipers' recording debuted on the" Billboard" Hot 100 in December 1969, remaining in the chart for eight weeks and peaking at# 83 in January 1970 and also lasting 13 weeks on the Easy Listening chart and peaking at# 9.
The single re-entered both charts in April 1970, when it spent an additional 12 weeks on the Hot 100, peaking at# 17 in June, and an additional 11 weeks on the Easy Listening chart, peaking at# 5.
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
" Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
It won an Oscar for Best Original Song. David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score.
The song was recorded by B. J. Thomas in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six.
In the film version of the song, Thomas had been recovering from laryngitis, which made his voice sound more abrasive than in the 7- inch release.
The film version featured a separate vaudeville- style instrumental break in double time while Paul Newman performed bicycle stunts.
The single by B. J. Thomas reached No. 1 on charts in the United States, Canada, Norway and reached No. 38 in the UK Singles Chart.
It topped the" Billboard" Hot 100 for four weeks in January 1970 and was also the first American No. 1 hit of the 1970s.
The song also spent seven weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart.
" Billboard" ranked it as the No. 4 song of 1970.
According to" Billboard" magazine, Thomas' single had sold over 2 million copies by March 14, 1970, with eight- track and cassette versions also climbing the charts.

Question: Which song was released earlier, Boxing (Song) or Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head?
Answer: Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head