Wrap-Ranker Oscar Poll: Best-Ever Winners for Original Song

“The Lion King”? “Butch Cassidy”? Or maybe “Skyfall”?

A song can become just as iconic as the film in which it’s playing. Try to remember “Aladdin” without thinking of “A Whole New World,” or “Casablanca” without briefly humming “As Time Goes By.”

Many of these tunes are justly rewarded with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, but which ones are the all time best?

Burt Bacharach and Hal David teamed up to write “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” for the 1969 Western “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” Originally offered to Ray Stevens and Bob Dylan, the song was finally sung by B.J. Thomas and became, according to “Billboard” magazine, the No.

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