#bj thomas

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #21: 1970

[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: Simon and Garfunkel, The Carpenters, The Guess Who, B.J. Thomas, Edwin Starr, Diana Ross, The Jackson 5, Rare Earth, The Beatles, Frede Payne. End description]

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A major theme in doing these polls is that decades are rarely defined by the exact stretch of time. It's all arbitrary, and any kind of cultural change tends to take a while to kick into gear without waiting for the exact calendar date. The seventies, however, feels like the exception. Keep in mind that this is all coming from the benefit of hindsight, but many accounts I've read and heard describe the shift from the 60's to the 70's as being jarring. First, we need to address the losses. The transition to the 70's came with musical trauma. Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and many others would pass away between 1969 and 1970. The Beatles would permanently break up this year. Whatever 1970 was going to look like, it was going to be a decade without many of the artists that helped to define the previous era.

There is something from the sixties that was brought over into the seventies, however: The Vietnam War. By this point, it was becoming clearer to the general public that the war effort was less about any sense of patriotic duty, and more about President Nixon not wanting to be the first American president to lose a war. The anti-war movement wouldn't just be populated by the anarchists or the hippies. However, the movement won't get as much traction in the top of the mainstream music charts as it did before. War by Edwin Starr, occupies a strange space in the early seventies as well as a strange space in Motown Records. Originally recorded for The Temptations, the track was covered by Edwin Starr out of fear that the original version would damage the group's crossover appeal.

Motown and its divisions will continue to reign supreme (or The Supremes...I'll stop) this decade as the label introduces the nation to a new flock of superstars. In addition to Diana Ross' solo debut, we're also seeing the introduction of The Jackson 5.

It's really hard not to apply a narrative to the songs listed above. As I keep saying, trends are rarely that neatly-defined and we're just looking at the very tip of the most popular/mainstream in doing these polls. But I can't help but notice that most of these songs are about learning to cope with some kind of hardship. Again, that's probably just a coincidence, but I think it's neat.

Also feel free to check out the twenty minute album version of Rare Earth's Get Ready, if you're like me and you're disappointed that Iron Butterfly's 17 minute In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida didn't make any of the sixties lists.

#billboard poll #billboard music #tumblr poll #music poll #1970s music #1970s #1970 #simon and garfunkel #the carpenters #the guess who #bj thomas #edwin starr #diana ross #the jackson 5 #rare earth #the beatles #freda payne

[domquixotedospobresblog]

#bj thomas #music #my playlist

[howardhawkshollywoodmusic]

56. I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry by BJ Thomas debuted Feb 66 and peaked at number eight, scoring 951 points.

BJ was born Billy Joe Thomas in Hugo, Oklahoma, and had 26 chart entries 1966-83. Five made the top 10 and two made number one.

The song was written by Hank Williams and released Nov 1949 as the b side to My Bucket's Got a Hole In It. Three other versions have charted, none making the top 40 - by Johnny Tillotson in 1962, Leon Russell, as Hank Wilson in 1973, and by Pittsburg Steeler quarterback and current NFL analyst Terry Bradshaw. Terry's version peaked at number 91 in 1976.

#im so lonesome i could cry #bj thomas #hits of 1966

[jathis]

BJ Thomas cosplaying as Mike Nesmith

#bj thomas #monkees #the monkees #Mike Nesmith

[forever70s]

B.J. Thomas - Home Where I Belong LP (1976)

#bj thomas #singer #retro lps #1976

[gypsy-that-i-was]

#music #music videos #youtube #bj thomas #raindrops keep fallin on my head

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

/eats my way out of your cookie/

ight kid here we go

https://youtu.be/pTUAh4bQYKE

https://youtu.be/3Kikh-IzmLg

they go together

i love them both

he’s a great singer

https://youtu.be/TfY8hR5frEQ

i’m adding rosemary to my name hoard

i may just go through an entire herb list

you can start calling me oregano

https://youtu.be/uZD8HKVKneI

THE HEAT IS ON THE HEAT IS OHHON <- i don’t know how he managed to make the word “on” longer but he did

https://youtu.be/WWdwH6_Uzpc

I have yet to finish watching the Grimleys (don’t watch the grimleys i beg of you, i may not know a lot about you but i have a feeling that’s not something you want to watch, and i don’t need that show reflected on me as a person)

https://youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo

this keeps getting stuck in my head hELp

https://youtu.be/dfrcZsKcVxU

I saw Noel Fielding and brain went ZOOOMMMMMMMMMM

WATCH WATCH WATCH YES CONSUME MEDIA WITH NEIL AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

no that’s not him singing

omfg i love him

https://youtu.be/eud5AurOxm0

ALL SHE WANTS DO IS DANCE DANCEEEEEEE

the song actually has deep meaning lmao

there’s the one eagles concert and they play this

and glenn (frey from the other song) was dancing AND IT WAS FUCKING EVERYTHING

https://youtu.be/9kznTMxOsxo

I know a lot of people who like Harry Nilsson

I myself only really care about coconut but this song is nice too

https://youtu.be/m5sNVLbvMdI

this feels like someone threw a grenade and i just exploded into bits and had like shattered glass of nostalgia in my corpse

i know that’s really weird

but my brain came up with that and somehow it half makes sense

https://youtu.be/3QGMCSCFoKA

https://youtu.be/C11MzbEcHlw

MEAT LOAF MEAT LOAF MEAT LOAF MEAT LOAF

i didn’t put it here but the music video for “i would do anything for love” actually traumatized me as a 6 year old

cause there were like mtv reruns and i watched it

so to cope my brain turned the music video into me being a vampire waiting to get a girlfriend in a lonely castle

really really weird 6 year old

but i still associate with vampires so

i’ll one day get the courage to watch the video again

https://youtu.be/B2w4moS3oFU

watch the video before you read what i have to say about it

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YOU BETTER HAVE WATCHED THE VIDEO

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OKAY SO THESE GUYS ARE MODERN

LIKE

WITHIN THIS PAST DECADE MODERN

THIS IS THE FIRST THING IVE SEEN BY THEM

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ight that’s what i got :3

/crawls into your laundry pile/

OKAY HOOKED ON A FEELING IS ONE that i remember hearing that the blue suede one was a cover but i ALWAYS FORGOT that it was a cover and never looked it up so i am so happy you put that one here. i'm also laughing at the little dance thing he does at the audience and they're all just sitting there doing nothing and staring at him, it looks so funny.

omg RAIN DROPS KEEP FALLIN ON MY HEAD i love that song!!!!!!! i've never seen a video for it until now though omg i love it. sdghsdgsd where the water starts and you can hear somebody laughing in the background. he does have a very nice voice.

AAAAAAAA LOOOOVE GROOOOWS WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES AND NOBODY KNOOOOOOOOOWS LIKE MEEEEEEEEEEEE

this is one i've known forever and i love the video so much. i learned about this song from my dad because he said when he hears it, he always thinks about a little girl he knew when he was a little kid named rosemary, they were friends and then she moved away one day and he never saw her again. he always said that song reminded him of her and made him wonder where she went and how she was doing.

BEVERLY HILLS COP SOUNDTRACK i love that movie. and this song. and now this video too! (making the word "on" longer reminds me of showaddywaddy where buddy does things like that, like making the word "band" longer. yes i had to mention them somewhere at least once)

dsgsd i don't know why i'm laughing about noddy singing that song in what looks like a totally empty room and he's singing "we get wild wild wild" and then his little "yaaaaaay" like he's so happy there by himself in a sad empty room. also i know literally nothing about that show, but even if i did, i don't attach things like that to people just because it was watched. i've watched lots of things(some i kind of regret watching, but at least i know what it is now. it's just more knowledge in the brain) and most of it is so far from who i am as a person, even if i enjoyed some elements of some of the things, if it was analyzed as a whole and somebody tried to determine what i'm like based on that, i think they would come up with a very different result than me in reality(unless it's my favorite music videos, that's literally just me and my entire personality). also i don't really watch series or movies much anymore, so you don't have to worry about me watching it!!

omg i love bowie's sweater. also relatable, i don't leave my house much and when i do, sometimes i'm afraid of people for no reason. like if i'm walking on a sidewalk and somebody else is walking towards me, i will probably cross the street as soon as possible and walk on the other side instead. (sidewalks and roads where i live, which is a very small town, are usually very void of people. as is my life.)

i have never heard of mint royale or noel fielding in my life but i guess i have now. i am laughing at the intro. basically me whenever i'm in a vehicle waiting for somebody to come out from the store or a house.

okay i have heard 'all she wants to do is dance' so many times on radio stations and things but for some reason i never made the connection that it was don henley for some reason?? i mean i haven't listened to him much but i can HEAR IT in his voice now that i know. also i feel like i need to point out that i really love when songs have sax and/or horns and things incorporated in them somewhere. just sounds really nice.

EVERYBODY'S TAALLLKIN AT ME, I DON'T HEAR A WORD THEY'RE SAYIN

i love it, this is the only song i know by him. also the fact that he was the one that rented a room to both cass elliot from the mamas and the papas and keith moon from the who and he also thought the room was cursed. that's as far as my knowledge about him goes. i am loving his dances.

dire straits! i think i only know like two songs from them, but wow they're pretty good live. MORE SAX yes good. i am going to need that person wearing the moon and stars shirt to send that to me right now. omg the crowd's clapping. i love that. THE WHOLE INSTRUMENTAL BIT WITH THE SAX AND EVERYTHING SOUNDS SO NICE!!!! at the end when he says thank you and the crowd goes even more wild and he smiles omg.

okay i really love meat loaf, i've always wanted to listen to more from him but i just haven't yet. i know some of his songs but not nearly as many as i feel like i should. HIS STAGE PRESENCE IS AMAZING. AND HIS VOICE. also he's cute and some of the looks he gives in the videos, i'm like omg wow. ALSO THE WAY HE FLIPS HIS HAIR SO MUCH. i'm laughing about the baseball announcer in the middle of that one. i love when songs have stories.

OKAY. THE LEMON TWIGS. i have never heard of them in my life until now. and i have a horrible confession to make. i-

look. when i scroll down to add a comment about one of the songs/videos, i have to scroll ALL THE WAY DOWN and i SEE WORDS along the way. and i have to make multiple trips up and back down and back up to get the next video so i can match the song to what you said about it and then type my own words and then get the next song, etc. iiii may have read what you said before watching. unintentionally. and i apologize for yet another crime. ANYWAY. i love it and their clothes and the vibe and everything, omg. i want all bands/musicians/everybody to bring the 70's back like that.

this was an amazing selection of songs, omg thank you so much.

#bj thomas #edison lighthouse #glenn frey #noddy holder #david bowie #mint royale #don henley #harry nilsson #dire straits #meat loaf #the lemon twigs

[oldshowbiz]

B.J. Thomas: Hooked on Meth

#BJ Thomas #tonight show #drugs

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head by BJ Thomas premiered Nov 69 and was number one for four weeks. It was Burt Bacharach's fourth Oscar nomination for Best Song, and his first win. He also won for the film's (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) musical score. Burt's third Oscar was for Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Could Do)

#Youtube #bj thomas #raindrops keep falling on my head #burt bacharach

[luizdominguesfan]

www.mkkwebradio.com.br

Amigos: a 16ª edição do programa "Cabine de Som" via MKK webradio, chegou!

Segunda-feira, dia 25 de março, a partir das 23 horas, com repetição no sábado (dia 30, às 15 horas). Mais duas repetições na segunda (dia 1º de abril - 23 horas) e sábado, dia 6 às 15 horas.

Nesta edição, eu falarei no primeiro bloco sobre artistas de diversas vertentes da música, entre os quais o Zimbo Trio com o seu Jazz-Samba sofisticado, e a MPB amalgamada à música latino-americana do Trio Irakitan. No segundo bloco, haverá a presença de dois cantores Pop-Rock dos anos 1960 e 1970, com interpretações marcantes para grandes trilhas de filmes: Harry Nilsson e B.J. Thomas. O terceiro bloco volta com brasilidades: o genial Rei do Baião, Luiz Gonzaga e mais Jazz-Samba com o Milton Banana Trio. Para encerrar, a grande diva da canção francesa, Edith Piaf e a Pop-Rocker italiana, Patty Pravo, a Rainha do Piper Club de Roma!

Pauta e locução: Luiz Domingues. Edição e produção: Markko Mendes. Foto: Lincoln Baraccat

#Programa Cabine de Som pela MKK webradio #Programa Cabine de Som de Luiz Domingues #MKK webradio #Markko Mendes #Luiz Domingues #Zimbo Trio #Trio Irakitan #Harry Nilsson #BJ Thomas #Luiz Gonzaga #Milton Banana Trio #Edith Piaf #Patty Pravo #Música eclética

[danieljreboot]

#bj thomas #Spotify

[lullybe]

I was listening to Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, and unlike BJ Thomas, rain makes me happy. It brings me a little hope, especially when I take a shower in the rain and stay there until it stops. The sound brings me peace, the petrichor smell takes me to incredible and happy sensations.

#petrichor #bj thomas #rainymood #confession #diary #outburst #fear #internal loneliness #lost #thoughts

[myimaginaryradio]

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - BJ Thomas - 1970

#bj thomas #raindrops keep falling on my head #classic rock #70s #rain songs #Youtube

[23holoholo]

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - BJ Thomas (Lyrics Video) [HQ Audio]

#youtube #BJ Thomas

[thetrusouldj]

#Bj thomas #I’m so lonesome I could cry #Youtube

[gypsy-that-i-was]

#music #music videos #bj thomas #raindrops keep falling on my head #Youtube