There’s not a lot of narrative function to that scene it’s mostly there to remind you that, yes, you are watching titanic movie star Paul Newman, and yes, he is very charming. He’s picked up a newfangled bicycle somewhere, and so he uses it to make her laugh, mugging and doing dumb stunts and finally pissing off a bull. The unplugged career retrospective includes collaborations with, among others, Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, Richard Marx and Keb’ Mo’.In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.Ī little ways into George Roy Hill’s revisionist Western Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, the highest-grossing movie of 1969, there’s a scene where Paul Newman’s Butch, celebrating after a successful robbery, goes to visit his schoolteacher girlfriend. Thomas posted his last Billboard chart appearance during his lifetime in 2013 when The Living Room Sessions hit No. 12-peaking Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head in 1970. Thomas also earned 10 entries on the Billboard 200 albums chart, led by the No. He last visited the chart in 2000 with “You Call That a Mountain.” 3) and “The Whole World’s in Love When You’re Lonely” (No. 1s “Whatever Happened to Old Fashioned Love” and “New Looks From an Old Lover,” both in 1983, he reached the top 10 with “Two Car Garage” (No. In 1975-2000, he notched 16 Hot Country Songs appearances, including three No. Thomas scored his first success on Hot Country Songs in 1975 with his initial entry, “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” which led the list that May. Due to changes in chart methodology over the years, eras are weighted to account for different chart turnover rates over various periods. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. Thomas’ Biggest Billboard Hits recap is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart. “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (with The Triumphs), No. “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” No. Rank, Title, Artist, Hot 100 Peak Position, Yearġ. Thomas’ next top 10, “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” became his first Hot 100 leader in January 1970. 5-peaking “Hooked on a Feeling,” later a No. He returned to the top 10 in January 1969 with the No. Thomas initially appeared on a Billboard chart when his version, with The Triumphs, of Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” entered the Hot 100 dated Feb. 7 on Adult Contemporary in February 1989. Serving as the theme song to the hit ABC sitcom Growing Pains, it rose to No. Thomas last sang a top 10 Billboard chart hit that was known to millions before it even became a single: “As Long as We Got Each Other,” credited to Steve Dorff & Friends, was sung by Thomas and fellow multi-decade pop star Dusty Springfield. Thomas, 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' Singer, Dies at 78 1 on the Hot 100 and seven frames atop Adult Contemporary.īorn in Hugo, Texas, and raised in Houston, Thomas also topped tallies with: “I Just Can’t Help Believing” (one week, Adult Contemporary, 1970) “Rock and Roll Lullaby” (one week, Adult Contemporary, 1972) “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song” (one week each on the Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Hot Country Songs, 1975) “Whatever Happened to Old Fashioned Love” (one week, Hot Country Songs, 1983) and “New Looks From an Old Lover” (one week, Hot Country Songs, 1983).ī.J. His 1969 classic “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” became his first leader on any Billboard survey, spending four weeks at No.
1 singles across the Hot 100, Hot Country Songs and Adult Contemporary charts. 1s among five top 10s, on the Billboard Hot 100 from 1966 through 1983 and achieved No. Thomas was a chart force beginning in the 1960s. Thomas, whose musical career endured for over 50 years, died May 29 at his home in Arlington, Texas. Following a battle with stage-four lung cancer, B.J.
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