Wednesday June 9, 2021 “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry “ B. J. Thomas

We recently lost singer B. J. Thomas.

B.J. Thomas straddled the line between pop/rock and country, achieving success in both genres in the late '60s and '70s. At the beginning of his career, he leaned more heavily on rock & roll, but by the mid-'70s, he had turned to country music, becoming one of the most successful country-pop stars of the decade.

Thomas had several hits including "The Eyes of a New York Woman' and "Hooked on a Feeling", which may have been the first recording to include an electric sitar and it also became Thomas' second million-selling record. 

After that, the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid featured Thomas performing the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", which won the Academy Award for best original song that year and hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

 B.J. Thomas has won five Grammy Awards, two Dove Awards for his gospel albums, and has sold more than 70 million albums.

 Stay safe and well….and enjoy B.J. Thomas' remarkable version of this Hank Williams written song.

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill

He sounds too blue to fly

The midnight train is whining low

I'm so lonesome I could cry

 I've never seen a night so long

When time goes crawling by

The moon just went behind the clouds

To hide its face and cry

 Did you ever see a robin weep

When leaves begin to die

That means he's lost the will to live

I'm so lonesome I could cry

 The silence of a falling star

Lights up a purple sky

And as I wonder where you are

I'm so lonesome I could cry