He has appeared in films such as Forrest Gump, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Clerks II, and Spider-Man 2, as well as on several television shows Years. Sales quickly surpassed two million copies and it remained one of the most consistent pop hits of all time. Written by Bacharach and Hal David, the song was featured in Paul Newman / Robert Redford’s classic film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and won an Oscar for Best Original Song. In January 1970 Thomas topped the charts with “Raindrops Keep Fallin ‘on My Head”. It was Warwick who introduced him to songwriter-producer Burt Bacharach. While at the New York label, he befriended Ronnie Milsap and Dionne Warwick, who were also on the list at the time. Thomas’ second million-dollar hit came in 1968 with the release of On My Way’s “Hooked on a Feeling,” his second album for Scepter. He released the next single “Mama” and delivered his first solo album that same year. Released by Scepter Records, it peaked at number 8 on the pop charts and became its first multi-million dollar single. Thomas’s first taste of success came in 1966 when he recorded “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” with producer Huey P. He began singing in church as a child and joined the Houston-based band The Triumphs as a teenager. He was born Billy Joe Thomas in rural Hugo, Oklahoma, before moving to Houston, Texas with his family. Memorable hits like Can’t Help But Believe, Don’t Worry “Baby,” “ Anything That Happened to Old-Fashioned Love,” “An Old Lover’s New Look”, and “Hooked On A Feeling” made it a staple for many radio formats over the years. His long history on the charts has made him one of Billboard’s 50 Most Performed Artists in the past 50 years.
Five-time Grammy Award winner and Grammy Hall of Fame nominee Thomas has sold over 70 million albums worldwide, including eight # 1 hits, scoring 26 top 10 singles during his over 50 years in the music industry.Īlso Read: ‘Eric Carle’ The Very Hungry Caterpillar Author and Illustrator Dies Aged 91 in Massachusetts The iconic “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My.” Head, which won the Oscar for Best Original Song. His career has been anchored by many enduring achievements, including his million-selling cover of Grammy Award winner Hank Williams.
€¢"Butch Cassidy" (outlaw Robert Leroy Parker) •"The Sundance Kid" (outlaw Harry Longbaugh)īutch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is the likeably entertaining, charming and amusing comedy/drama of the friendship and camaraderie shared between the two handsome and humorous buddy leads - legendary, turn-of-the-century Western outlaws and their "Hole in the Wall" gang.Thomas’s great career spanned multiple genres including country, pop, and gospel, which has earned him CMA, Dove, and Grammy awards and nominations since its inception in the 1960s. Historical antecedents for the two daring "Robin Hood" outlaws actually existed, two notorious figures who were sadly anachronistic for their turn-of-the-century times:
Along with Newman and Redford, the film stars Katharine Ross as Etta Place, and features Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy, Kenneth Mars, and Donnelly Rhodes.īutch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is the likeably entertaining, charming and amusing comedy/drama of the friendship and camaraderie shared between the two handsome and humorous buddy leads - legendary, turn-of-the-century Western outlaws and their "Hole in the Wall" gang. The music score was by Burt Bacharach with song lyrics by Hal David. The film was directed by George Roy Hill and produced at 20th Century Fox by John Foreman from a screenplay by William Goldman. J." Thomas (born August 7, 1942, Hugo, Oklahoma) is an American popular singer known for his chart-topping hits in the 1960s and 1970s.īutch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman) and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (played by Robert Redford), based loosely on historical fact.
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