![]() ![]() ![]() He struggled with drug addiction, reaching rock bottom, but managed to quit in 1976. The last of these earned Thomas a season of performances at the Copacabana nightclub in New York.īlessed with a voice that brought a hint of soulfulness to its easy-listening smoothness, he would enjoy further pop hits into the 1970s including I Just Can’t Help Believing (later a hit single and in-concert favourite for Elvis Presley) and No Love at All (1970), the exuberant gospel-styled Mighty Clouds of Joy (1971) and Rock and Roll Lullaby (1972), and would top the US pop chart again with (Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song (1975).īJ Thomas performing in 2015. It was his first US No 1 hit, following other chart successes including his Top 10 version of Hank Williams’s I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (1966), The Eyes of a New York Woman (which reached No 28, 1968) and Hooked on a Feeling (No 5, 1968). Although it only got to No 38 in the UK singles chart, its popularity was enduring through regular radio play over the decades. Raindrops won an Oscar for best original song and Thomas performed it at the 1970 Academy Awards ceremony. ![]()
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