It was his first US No 1 hit, following other chart successes including his Top 10 version of Hank Williams’s I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (1966), The Eyes of a New York Woman (which reached No 28, 1968) and Hooked on a Feeling (No 5, 1968). Although it only got to No 38 in the UK singles chart, its popularity was enduring through regular radio play over the decades. Raindrops won an Oscar for best original song and Thomas performed it at the 1970 Academy Awards ceremony.
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