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Billy Joe Thomas was born in Hugo, Oklahoma, on August 7, 1942.He was the son of Geneva and Vernon Thomas. [3] [4] Thomas grew up both in and near Houston; he graduated from Lamar Consolidated High School in Rosenberg, Texas.
Billy Joe Thomas: 145 1973 Songs: 221 Paramount: 1974 Longhorns & Londonbridges: 1975 Reunion: 59 2 40 ABC Records: Help Me Make It (To My Rockin' Chair) 26 1976 Home Where I Belong: Myrrh: 1977 B. J. Thomas: 114 39 MCA: 1978 Everybody Loves a Rain Song: 1979 Happy Man: Myrrh: You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me a Prayer) 1980 The Best of B ...
The Mighty Clouds of Joy was formed in 1959 in Los Angeles as a tradition-based style group. It wasn't until 1961 as the group became famous, they added bass, drums, and keyboards to the standard guitar backup and developed a funky sound that split the difference between gospel and rhythm and blues.
B.J. Thomas, the Grammy-winning singer who enjoyed success on the pop, country and gospel charts with such hits as “I Just Can’t Help Believing,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head ...
Rest in peace, B.J. Thomas. The legendary musician died on Saturday due to complications from stage 4 lung cancer, his family confirmed. He was 78. Thomas announced his lung cancer diagnosis just ...
This is a list of notable contemporary Christian music artists from the 1970s.. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music (2002) defines CCM as "music that appeals to self-identified fans of contemporary Christian music on account of a perceived connection to what they regard as Christianity". [1]
At the age of 14, he visited an uncle in Los Angeles and decided to stay. He enrolled at Thomas Jefferson High School, and in 1955, he started the group Mighty Clouds of Joy. [6] Ligon recalled in 1985 that he was inspired to form the group after seeing Rev. Julius Cheeks, of the Sensational Nightingales, perform at a concert in Los Angeles. [8]
The single proved to be very popular with disco fans as the song stayed at number one on the disco/dance chart for five weeks, and remained on the chart for a total of fourteen weeks [1] Mighty High" was their biggest hit on both the soul chart, peaking at #22, and on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #69.