I’ve always loved music, I sung around, I sung in church.”Īt age 26, Thomas recorded his breakthrough hit “Hooked on a Feeling” in 1968, which was later covered by Blue Swede with an “ooga-chaka” intro in 1974. They tell me that I sang even when I was an infant. “I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry on the radio, but when I was about 12 or 13, I fell in love with Jackie Wilson and Bobby Bland. “My dad loved country music,” Thomas said. Indeed, they’re frozen in time together like the final freeze frame, quite the feat for a young boy growing up in Houston, Texas, with a father who listened to country radio. … But I was involved with him in a wonderful movie, so I do feel like I have met him.” “Having never met the guys, they’re kind of up there in the idol territory. Redford’s name placement was on a table in front, but he never came,” Thomas said. “I played a couple of times in Park City, one at a private thing where Mr. He says it almost happened several times, but it never quite panned out. He said he never met Paul Newman, Robert Redford or the director George Roy Hill - and I never have either! I thought over the years I should have at least met those guys.” “It’s funny, I just recently read a book by Burt Bacharach. “It was one of the best buddy films of all time and it’s got a lot of classic lines,” Thomas said. To this day, he’s in awe of the on-screen buddy team of Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who honored the role by lending the name to the Sundance Film Festival. You needed to sing it as it was written.” I instinctively knew from the get go that his compositions and their songs weren’t stuff that you played with. “Burt Bacharach is obviously one of the greatest composers of all time,” Thomas said. “He wrote something that seemingly on the surface was not saying much, but in the long run … it was saying a very meaningful thing that rain falls on you, but if you’re free, nothing’s worrying you.”ĭavid’s lyrics were set to the music of legendary composer Burt Bacharach. “They had asked Hal to write a frivolous song, just kind of a throwaway song, and he said, ‘B.J., I don’t write frivolous songs,'” Thomas said. The lyrics were written by songwriting icon Hal David: “So I just did me some talkin’ to the sun, and I said I didn’t like the way he got things done, sleepin’ on the job.” It was kind of an art film, but it was also one of the best westerns ever made, too.” It wasn’t done with instruments for the most part, it was done with a ‘ba ba ba,’ kind of vocalizing things. Redford said they were making an art film. “They’re riding a bicycle like normal people,” Thomas said. The song’s bubbly bicycle scene signals a lighthearted tone.
He, of course, was referring to the iconic buddy Western “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969), which won four Oscars, including Best Original Screenplay for William Goldman.
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“Actually, the song came out in October of ’69 and it wasn’t until the movie came out as a Christmas release that the radio wanted the record. “It’s a distinct high point for me,” Thomas told WTOP in 2020. On Saturday, five-time Grammy winner B.J. He won an Oscar for his chart-topping hit “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” (1970). Business & Finance Click to expand menu.According to Billboard magazine, Thomas' single had sold over 2 million copies by March 14, 1970, with eight-track and cassette versions also climbing the charts. The song also spent seven weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in January 1970 and was also the first American No. 1 on charts in the United States, Canada, Norway and reached No. The film version featured a separate vaudeville-style instrumental break in double time while Paul Newman performed bicycle stunts. In the film version of the song, Thomas had been recovering from laryngitis, which made his voice sound more abrasive than in the 7-inch release. Thomas in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six.
David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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