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B.J. Thomas (born Billy Joe Thomas) straddled the line between pop/rock and country, achieving success in both genres in the late ’60s and ’70s. At the beginning of his career, he leaned more heavily on rock & roll, but by the mid-’70s, he had turned to country music, becoming one of the most successful country-pop stars of the decade.

Thomas began singing while he was a child, performing in church. In his teens, he joined the Houston-based band the Triumphs, who released a number of independent singles that failed to gain any attention. For the group’s last single, Thomas and fellow Triumph member Mark Charron wrote “Billy and Sue,” which was another flop. After “Billy and Sue,” Thomas began a solo career, recording a version of Hank Williams’ standard “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” with producer Huey P. Meaux. Released by Scepter Records in early 1966, the single became an immediate hit, catapulting to number eight on the pop charts. Although he had a series of moderate follow-up hits, including a re-release of “Billy and Sue,” Thomas failed to reenter the Top Ten until 1968, when “Hooked on a Feeling” became a number-five, gold single. The following year, he scored his biggest hit with Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” taken from the hit film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

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1		Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head			1,117
2		Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My head			484
3		Hooked On A Feeling			272
4		Rock and Roll Lullaby			95
5		I Just Can't Help Believing			66
6		I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry			52
7		Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - Butch Cassidy/Soundtrack Version			50
7		Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song			50
9		(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song			31
10		Raindrops keep fallin on my head			20
11		No Love At All			19
11		Everybody's Out of Town			19
13		Rock & Roll Lullaby			15
14		I Just Can't Help Believin'			14
15		The Eyes Of A New York Woman			11

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