BJ Thomas & The Triumphs made the American Top 10 with “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (1966), the most successful version of a much-recorded heartrending country song written by Hank Williams. BJ THOMAS performs his award winning song from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, live in Branson MissouriSee more Branson Stars at. It is track 2 from the album Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head that was released in 1969. Taken on its own, the song lacks the calm before the storm element to make it that much more fascinating, but its no less delightful a piece. Thomas was spotted by a record company’s talent scout and signed to a contract, with his band backing him for the first few singles. Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head is a song by B.J. Thomas, best known for his hit Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head, has died from complications due to stage four lung cancer.
They had local hits such as “Lazy Man” in 1965. Written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the film Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. He was particularly known for his hit songs of the 1960s. It was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. He joined his church choir at the age of 14 and, shortly afterwards, became featured singer in his high school choral group before forming a group called The Triumphs with his older brother, Jerry, to perform at parties and dances. Thomas (born August 7, 1942, died May 29, 2021) was an American popular singer. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head was featured in the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. īilly Joe Thomas was born in Hugo, Oklahoma, to Geneva (née Talbot) and Vernon Thomas, and grew up in Texas, first in Houston, then in Rosenburg, where he attended Lamar high school and was given the nickname BJ while playing baseball. Song for song, it’s not quite as interesting as Young and in Love, but it holds together as well as that album, and offered a better indication of B.J.’s career path.So he brought pop and country songs back into the mix and found a wide audience with “As Long as We Got Each Other” (1985), the theme song from the sitcom Growing Pains. Also Phil Collins’ Genesis, an English act, dropped their own version in 1974. This orchestrated, yet not dramatic, arrangement is the sound of Raindrops and it’s the sound of mainstream crossover pop of the late ‘60s, the sound that Thomas made his own starting with this very record. Popular Covers of Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head Moreover it has been covered by some of the greatest names in American music history, such as Peggy Lee (1970), Dionne Warrick (1970), Dean Martin (1970) and the Four Tops (1970). gives it an appropriately soft and symphonic treatment. What’s most revealing is Thomas' choice of “The Greatest Love” from Joe South - it’s one of South’s poppiest numbers, and B.J. Bacharach & David are heard on the title track and “This Guy’s In Love with You,” Jimmy Webb has two songs (“If You Must Leave My Life,” “Do What You Gotta Do”), Mark James, author of “Hooked on a Feeling,” has two cuts, including “Suspicious Minds,” and Bobby Russell’s ‘60s standard “Little Green Apples” gets an airing. Thomas, the vocalist who mixed the stylish sophistication of a pop crooner and the down-home soul of a country singer on songs like the 1969 smash Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head.
Naturally, “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head”’s prominent position in Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid was instrumental in this breakthrough - its blockbuster status guaranteeing Thomas a bump - but the LP Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head followed through on the single, abandoning any lingering Texas soul influences remaining in Thomas and focusing firmly on pop. Thomas had hits before “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” - big ones, too, like “Hooked on a Feeling” - but that 1969 single made his career, establishing him as a first-class adult contemporary singer. Thomas Watch: New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make Anyone A Great Singer Watch: New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make. Engelbert Humperdinck Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head Play track Love this track More actions Listeners 3,321 Scrobbles 8,427 Join others and track this song Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account Sign Up to Last.
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