B. J. Thomas discography

The discography for American musician B. J. Thomas includes releases from five decades, between the 1960s and the 2010s. Thomas is best remembered for his hit songs during the 1960s and 1970s, which appeared on the pop, country and Christian music charts. His popular recordings include the Burt Bacharach and Hal David song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", the Larry Butler and Chips Moman song "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song", and the original version of the Mark James song "Hooked on a Feeling".

Albums

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Year Title Peak chart positions[1] Label
US US Country CAN
1966 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Scepter Records
Tomorrow Never Comes
1967 Sings for Lovers and Losers
1968 On My Way 133
1969 Young and in Love
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head 12 10
1970 Greatest Hits Volume 1 90
Everybody's Out of Town 72 71
Most of All 67 44
1971 Greatest Hits Volume 2 92
1972 Country 209
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. J. Thomas
For the Best MCA/Songbird
In Concert
1981 Amazing Grace Myrrh
Some Love Songs Never Die MCA
1982 As We Know Him
Miracle Myrrh
Peace in the Valley
1983 The Best of B. J. Thomas Volume 2
Love Shines Priority
New Looks 193 13 Columbia
The Great American Dream 27
1984 Shining 40
1985 Throwin' Rocks at the Moon
All Is Calm, All Is Bright
1986 Night Life
1989 Midnight Minute Reprise Records
1992 Back Against the Wall
1993 Wind Beneath My Wings Sony Music Special Products
Still Standing Here Silver City Records
1994 Back/Forward DISA Records
Now and Then J & B Records
1995 Precious Memories Warner Bros.
Scenes of Christmas Cross Three Records
1997 I Believe Warner Bros.
Christmas Is Coming Home Warner Resound
2000 You Call That a Mountain Kardina Records
2002 Greatest & Latest Purple Pyramid Records
2005 That Christmas Feeling Madacy
2006 We Praise: Glorify Thy Name Braun Media
We Praise: Just as I Am
2007 Home for Christmas Lifestyles
Love to Burn B. J. Thomas Music
2010 Once I Loved Universal Music
2012 The Complete Scepter Singles Real Gone Music
2013 The Living Room Sessions 39 Wrinkled Records
2014 O Holy Night Wrinkled Records
2017 New Looks from an Old Lover: The Complete Columbia Singles Real Gone Music
  • AShining also peaked at No. 17 on the RPM Country Albums chart in Canada.

Singles

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Note: Singles without indicated B-sides may have been only released as promotional copies with stereo and mono versions of the same song.

Year Titles (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated
Peak chart positions[1] Album
US AC US US Country US Christian (CHR)[2][3] CAN AC CAN CAN Country AUS[4]
1966 "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
b/w "Candy Baby" (from Tomorrow Never Comes)
8 2 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
"Mama"
b/w "Wendy"
22 12
"Billy and Sue"
b/w "Never Tell"
34 23 The Very Best of B. J. Thomas
"Bring Back the Time"
b/w "I Don't Have a Mind of My Own" (from Tomorrow Never Comes)
75 53 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
"You'll Never Walk Alone"
b/w "Chains of Love"
The Very Best of B. J. Thomas
"Tomorrow Never Comes"
b/w "Your Tears Leave Me Cold" (non-album track)
80 89 Tomorrow Never Comes
"Plain Jane"
b/w "My Home Town"
129
1967 "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)
non-album tracks
"The Girl Can't Help It"
b/w "Walkin' Back" (from Tomorrow Never Comes)
1968 "The Eyes of a New York Woman"
b/w "I May Never Get To Heaven" (non-album track)
28 29 On My Way
"Hooked on a Feeling"
b/w "I've Been Down This Road Before"
5 3
1969 "It's Only Love"
b/w "You Don't Love Me Anymore" (non-album track)
37 45 24 Young and in Love
"Pass the Apple Eve"
b/w "Fairy Tale of Time" (non-album track)
97 78
"Skip a Rope"
b/w "You Don't Love Me Anymore" (non-album track)
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
b/w "Never Had It So Good" (from Young and in Love)
1 1 1 1 29 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
1970 "Everybody's Out of Town"
b/w "Living Again" (from Young and in Love)
3 26 18 21 Everybody's Out of Town
"I Just Can't Help Believing"
b/w "Send My Picture To Scranton, PA"
1 9 18 31
"Most of All"
b/w "The Mask" (from Everybody's Out of Town)
2 38 13 20 98 Most of All
1971 "No Love at All" (cover)
b/w "Have a Heart" (non-album track)
4 16 12 16 96
"Mighty Clouds of Joy"
b/w "Life"
8 34 25 26 Greatest Hits Volume Two
"Long Ago Tomorrow"
b/w "Burnin' a Hole in My Mind" (non-album track)
13 61 57
1972 "Rock and Roll Lullaby"
b/w "Are We Losing Touch"
1 15 8 7 41 Billy Joe Thomas
"That's What Friends Are for"
b/w "I Get Enthused"
38 74
"Happier Than the Morning Sun"
b/w "We Have Got to Get Our Ship Together"
31 100
1973 "Sweet Cherry Wine"
b/w "Roads"
"Songs"
b/w "Goodbye's a Long, Long, Time"
41 Songs
"Early Morning Hush"
b/w "Sunday Sunrise"
1974 "Play Something Sweet"
b/w "Talkin' Confidentially" (from Songs)
Longhorns & Londonbridges
1975 "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song"
b/w "City Boys"
1 1 1 1 3 2 10 Reunion
"Help Me Make It (To My Rockin' Chair)"
b/w "We Are Happy Together"
5 64 37 9 67 Help Me Make It (To My Rockin' Chair)
1977 "Home Where I Belong"
b/w "Hallelujah"
98 21 Home Where I Belong
"Without a Doubt"
B-side unknown
"Don't Worry Baby"
b/w "My Love"
2 17 1 12 B. J. Thomas
"Still The Lovin' Is Fun"
b/w "Play Me a Little Traveling Music"
8 77 13 86
1978 "I Want To Be More Like Jesus"
B-side unknown
Happy Man
"Everybody Loves a Rain Song"
b/w "Dusty Roads"
2 43 25 11 43 34 Everybody Loves A Rain Song
"Sweet Young America"
b/w "Aloha"
1979 "We Could Have Been the Closest of Friends"
b/w "In My Heart"
86 non-album tracks
"God Bless the Children"
b/w "On This Christmas Night"
38 On This Christmas Night (Various artists)
"Happy Man" 5 Happy Man
"What a Difference You've Made" 6
"He's Got It All in Control" 18
"From the Start"
B-side of the above four tracks unknown
20
1980 "Jesus on My Mind"
b/w "Using Things and Loving People"
1 You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me a Prayer)
"The Faith of a Little Child"
B-side unknown
7
"Walkin' on a Cloud" 30 For the Best
"Nothin' Could Be Better" 19
"Everything Always Works Out for the Best"
b/w "No Limit"
10
1981 "Uncloudy Day"
b/w "Amazing Grace"
Amazing Grace
"Some Love Songs Never Die"
b/w "There Ain't No Love"
34 27 Some Love Songs Never Die
"I Recall a Gypsy Woman"
b/w "The Lovin' Kind"
22 47
1982 "Satan, You're a Liar"
B-side unknown
6 Miracle
"But Love Me"
b/w "I Really Got the Feeling"
27 As We Know Him
"I'm in Tune (Finding How Good Life Can Be)" Miracle
1983 "Whatever Happened to Old-Fashioned Love"
b/w "I Just Sing"
13 93 1 1 39 New Looks
"New Looks from an Old Lover"
b/w "You Keep the Man in Me Happy"
1 6
"Pray for Me"
B-side unknown
4 Love Shines
"Two Car Garage"
b/w "Beautiful World"
44 3 1 91 The Great American Dream
1984 "Odessa Beggarman" 35 The Best of B. J. Thomas Volume II
"The Whole World's in Love When You're Lonely"
b/w "We're Here to Love"
10 15 Shining
"The Girl Most Likely To"
b/w "From This Moment On"
17 5
1985 "The Part of Me That Needs You Most"
b/w "Northern Lights"
61 57 Throwin' Rocks at the Moon
1986 "America Is"
b/w "Broken Toys"
62
"Night Life"
b/w "Make the World Go Away"
59 Night Life
1988 "As Long As We Got Each Other" (with Dusty Springfield) 7 Midnight Minute
1989 "Don't Leave Love (Out There All Alone)"
b/w "One Woman"
39
2000 "You Call That a Mountain" 66 You Call That a Mountain
2013 "I Just Can't Help Believing" (with Vince Gill) The Living Room Sessions
2017 "We Are Houston" (with The Music Row Choir)

Guest singles

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Year Single Artist Chart positions Album
US Country CAN Country
1984 "Rock and Roll Shoes"[5] Ray Charles 14 15 Friendship

Music videos

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Year Video
1983 "Two Car Garage"
1992 "A Southern Girl on a Summer Night"
2000 "What's Forever For?"

Other album appearances

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Awards: B.J. Thomas". Allmusic. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
  2. ^ "Christian CHR National Airplay". The Nielsen Company. Archived from the original on August 26, 2012. Retrieved July 9, 2012.
  3. ^ [Powell, Mark Allan (2002). "B. J. Thomas". Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music (First printing ed.). Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. p. 949.]
  4. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 308. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  5. ^ "The top 20 pop singles, based on Billboard's survey..." UPI. October 12, 1984. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
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