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To: andy58-in-nh

I was also unaware that he’d recorded the Hank Williams classic.

Well, he wasn't Hank Williams, but B.J. Thomas's version is pretty good. Thomas had an excellent and distinctive voice (think back to "Hooked On A Feeling").

And he may have had a huge body of work but across all Billboard Charts he had six #1 hits. The Beatles only had twenty #1 hits, all in the Billboard Hot 100. Elvis had only twenty-one - but unlike the Beatles, he spread his #1 hits across country, adult contemporary, gospel, and Hot 100. (Yes, George Strait has something like 57 #1 hits, all in country).

And Thomas recorded 51 albums, which isn't a paltry number.

Were we talking about Butch Cassidy?

36 posted on 08/19/2011 6:00:42 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)

My numbers on Elvis are wrong - just for the record.

38 posted on 08/19/2011 6:29:18 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)

Were we talking about Butch Cassidy?

LOL. Yeah, but how many #1 hits did he have?

39 posted on 08/19/2011 6:37:46 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)

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