The director played it for laughs, allowing Newman to show off some stunts on a bicycle to the beautiful Katharine Ross. To Hill’s annoyance, the song demanded an interruption in the action.
Burt Bacharach had been commissioned to write the score for the movie, and insisted on including a piece he had already named, in his head, “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head”. With all due respect to the director, he could not fail with his deftly chosen leads, Paul Newman and Robert Redford, whose remarkable good looks and onscreen chemistry seduced us away from any moral qualms over supporting the bad guys.Īs if that weren’t enough, Butch Cassidy also had its killer song. It asked us to believe that criminals were essentially soft-hearted, and their acts of crime amusing aberrations that could be forgiven with the twinkle of a blue eye. No information on survivors or a memorial was immediately available.George Roy Hill’s charming Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, released at the end of 1969, performed a precarious balancing act.
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Thomas found the time to voice the theme song, “As Long As We’ve Got Each Other” for the TV series Growing Pains, and he also was heard on numerous commercials, including campaigns for Coca-Cola and Pepsi. On his 39th birthday in 1981, he also joined the Grand Ole Opry. It won the Grammy for Best Country Song in 1976 and was nominated for CMA Single of the Year. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Country Songs charts. His “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song was No.
It won Thomas a Grammy and became the first of two Dove Award wins, while also becoming the first gospel record to sell a million copies. But he returned as a Born Again Christian in gospel music, signing with Myrrh Records and releasing the album Home Where I Belong in 1976. The success wasn’t easy on Thomas, who fell into drug use. In 1975, Thomas released the album Reunion on ABC Records, featuring “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song.” He signed to Paramount Records and released two albums-1973’s Songs and 1974’s Longhorns & Londonbridges. Thomas kept rolling with such pop/rock hits as “Everybody’s Out of Town,” “I Just Can’t Help Believing,” “No Love at All” and “Rock and Roll Lullaby.”
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It has since reoccurred in such films as Forrest Gump, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Clerks II, and Spider-Man 2, as well as multiple TV shows. The song was featured in the Paul Newman/Robert Redford film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, earning the Oscar for Best Original Song. That led to a collaboration on “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” written by Bacharach and Hal David and sung by Thomas. In 1968, he released the million-selling “Hooked on a Feeling” from his album, On My Way.ĭionne Warwick met Thomas when he visited the Scepter offices in New York and introduced him to songwriter-producer Burt Bacharach. The follow-up single, “Mama,” and his first album came that same year. 8 on the pop charts and became his first million-selling single. Released by Scepter Records, it peaked at No.
He joined the local band the Triumphs, and then in 1966 recorded “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” with producer Huey P. Thomas was also named one of Billboard’s Top 50 Most-Played Artists Over The Past 50 Years. Other hits by the artist included “I Just Can’t Help Believing,” “Don’t Worry Baby,” “Whatever Happened To Old Fashioned Love,” and “New Looks From An Old Lover.”īorn in rural Hugo, Oklahoma as Billy Joe Thomas, he moved to Houston, Texas with his family and began singing in church as a child. 1 smash “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” and the Top 5 hit, “Hooked on a Feeling.” His hits included a cover of the Hank Williams song “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” the Grammy winning No. Showbiz & Media Figures We've Lost In 2021 - Photo Gallery
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