![]() "There have been a number of times when I've been presented with music or situations that, you know, I just had to say, 'No, I'm not going to do that.' Sometimes it's been tough and causes some personal problems with people. So, I've got certain areas and certain boundaries that I put on my music. I mean, I'll sing the Blues sometimes, but I try to stay in the positive side of my music and do something that uplifting and inspirational, if you will. ![]() I'm really devoted to - I purpose to do positive music. "Well, there really hasn't been a lot of that. I asked him if that caused him any problems in his career. Thomas has a reputation in the industry as being one who does not waiver from his core values or from his beliefs. So that was the first movie I had done in a long time. I was very busy with my music then so we chose not to pursue a movie career. I was involved in a movie back in the '70's ( Jory) but back in that day, we had to make a choice of what we were going to do. It was pretty cool and a great experience. It's a story about a group of misfit people who have their issues that they kinda get resolved when they have to take responsibility for a 10-year-old kid who's had a tragedy in his life. Richard Tyson's in the movie and other people - Diane Ladd and some other great people. He came down and visited me and we got involved. So, he contacted us online and then we spoke on the phone. "Anyway, Jeff wrote this movie - this story - and he always had 'Rock and Roll Lullaby' in the back of his mind when he was thinking of this movie. Ron Santo, you know, is the guy that played with the Cubs - third base for the Cubs - for a number of years. "Oh, yeah, yeah! We did! I played a small part and did some music for a movie called, Jake's Corner- a movie shot in Arizona by Jeff Santo, who wrote and directed the movie and he's Ron Santo's son. I had recently read that Thomas was involved in an independent movie that was filmed on location in Jake's Corner, Arizona, not too terribly far from Payson. "Other than that, I'm just doing the one-nighters and if something good comes up I'd like to get in to, I try to do it." I've been working on that for a year or so, so that's coming out. It's got some duets on it with some of their big people. So, I finally made a record just for Brazil, of the Brazilian classics. I go down to Brazil every 2, 3, 4 years and for some reason, they've always loved my music down there - even the gospel stuff. "You know, I've had a lot of hit records in Brazil. I have a record that just came out in South America and it's in the process of coming out here. ![]() I have a lot of fun and do a lot of one-nighters and things. I was there for a couple of days with Dionne Warwick. I actually played Branson for the first time. I'm on the road and I do a number of one-nighters. Thomas was the first platinum-selling artist in Gospel music and pushed Contemporary Christian Music to a whole new level before continuing on in his "sweet spot" of pop and country music. broke new ground as the first artist to "cross-over" into the new genre of contemporary Christian music, followed by Bob Dylan, America's Dan Peek, and Grand Funk Railroad's Mark Farner to name a few. In addition to "Raindrops" (which earned an Academy Award and spent four weeks at #1), Thomas is also famous for such iconic songs as "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "Hooked On A Feeling." "I Just Can't Help Believing" and "Rock and Roll Lullaby." I have the distinct privilege and honor to speak with the voice that sang "Raindrops" into the history books, B.J. I also remember well the "bicycle scene," with the late, great Paul Newman and Katherine Ross, riding the new-fangled invention while the song, "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" was playing on the soundtrack.įast-forward 40 years later. I was mesmerized by the action and the incredible scenery. It was during this time that the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid came out.įighting the summertime blues and wanting to feed my fascination with the rough and tumble West, I rode my bike down to Mann's Chris-Town Theater to watch this Oscar winning movie. My family had only moved to the Phoenix area the year before from Huntsville, Alabama, and I was reading everything that I could get my hands on about the Wild West. When I was a ten years old, I hadn't quite began to outgrow my fascination with the Cowboys and Indians. Thomas then and now A perfectly positive gentleman
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