There’s also the last 30 seconds where Thomas’ voice ends and the song goes into a trumpet-led section that sounds like the montage music they would play on old game shows. Like a lot of Bacharach and David songs, it’s a full-down-the-middle pop production with a guitar that sounds like a ukulele, comforting strings and backing vocals, quiet drums, an old-timey piano, and a chintzy sounding trumpet that Bacharach and David seem to like a lot in their songs. Musically, the song radiates a peaceful bliss that fits well with Thomas’ sunny delivery. There’s a dorky quality to his performance especially in the way he sings the chorus with an upward inflection on each line but it works. He doesn’t sing as if he’s down and out about the rain but instead, he sings with a sunny optimism that everything is going to be great amid the rain. This attitude comes through a lot in Thomas’ singing.
He realizes that nothing’s gonna change if he complains or cries about the rain and feels carefree. But Thomas doesn’t fret too much as the blues won’t defeat him since happiness will soon come to greet him. Nothing is going his way like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed to where he tries to talk to the sun saying he doesn’t like him sleeping on the job in providing sunshine. Thomas is having a bad day where rain keeps coming down on his head. The lyrics in “Raindrops” are pretty simple in its concept. After he recovered from his laryngitis, Thomas went back to the studio to record “Raindrops” again for the version that would be released commercially as a single which is the version that still gets played while his raspier original take plays in the movie. Amid the setback, Bacharach and David liked Thomas’ performance and it apparently impressed a 20th Century Fox exec who was at the session to where he thought Thomas sounded like Paul Newman. Thomas’ doctor had ordered him to rest his voice for two weeks but after pleading the doctor allowed him to record treating his throat to help him with recording. Thomas for “Raindrops” but he came down with laryngitis right when he was about to record the song. Bob Dylan was also reportedly approached to sing the song but he also declined though I find it funny thinking of how Dylan’s version would’ve sounded.Īfter those rejections, Bacharach and David settled on B.J. The country novelty star Ray Stevens was approached to sing but didn’t like the song so he turned it down. It just so happened that Bacharach and his writing partner Hal David had “Raindrops” written for Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid but were having trouble finding the right person to sing it. It was “Hooked On A Feeling” that got Thomas connected with songwriter Burt Bacharach when his regular collaborator Dionne Warwick, Thomas’ label mate at Scepter Records, brought the song to Bacharach encouraging him to do some work with Thomas.
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