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"I Just Can't Help Believing" is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. The song was most successful after it was recorded by B. J. Thomas and released as a single in 1970. It went to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and spent one week at No. 1 on the Easy Listening (adult contemporary) chart. [1]
The Living Room Sessions is free of gospel. But the album does offer a fair sampling of Thomas' pop and country mastery via hits he had between 1966 and 1983. He enlists Isaac Slade, of the rock band the Fray, to assist him on "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." Gill chimes in on "I Just Can't Help Believing." Keb' Mo' shares the mic on "Most of All."
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.
By the end of the ’60s, they were writing gentler, folk-tinged numbers and, with B.J. Thomas' "I Just Can't Help Believing," moving toward the adult-oriented soft rock that became their ...
"Just a Little Lovin'" Dusty Springfield — — — Opening track on the 1969 LP Dusty in Memphis "I Just Can't Help Believing" Bobby Vee — — — 1970: B. J. Thomas, #9 US 1971: Elvis Presley, #6 UK 1983: Boys Town Gang, #82 UK 1970 "New World Coming" Mama Cass 42 — — "Feelings" Barry Mann 93 — — "I Really Want to Know You" The ...
"I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)" b/w "Baby Cried" (from Tomorrow Never Comes) — 94 — — — — — — B. J. Thomas Sings for Lovers and Losers "Treasure of Love" b/w "Just the Wisdom of a Fool" — — — — — — — — "Human" b/w "Just the Wisdom of a Fool" (from B. J. Thomas Sings for Lovers and Losers ...
The concert version of "I Just Can't Help Believin '" from this album was released as a single in the United Kingdom in November 1971, reaching number six on the UK Singles Chart. Its b-side "How the Web Was Woven" was also taken from this album. A rehearsal version of the latter song was featured in the 1970 documentary Elvis: That's the Way ...
The final film runs 12 minutes shorter than the original, but contains more music, although several performances included in the original film are omitted (most notably the concert performance of "I Just Can't Help Believin'", even though the new version of the film features footage of Presley rehearsing the song and being concerned about ...