In Remembrance – Love Songs & Lost Treasures available Feb 4th

BJ Thomas, whose career spanned over six decades and sold over 70 million albums, will have new music available on February 4th, as Real Gone Music will In Remembrance – Love Songs & Lost Treasures, featuring 13 previously unreleased tracks. The 18 song collection features eight unreleased songs from the Warner-Reprise Records vault and four songs from a limited edition direct response album in the 90s, along with rare photos, outtakes recorded with veteran songwriter/producer Steve Dorff, and more.

Born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, Thomas began his career with the Houston-based band The Triumphs, when as lead singer he covered his father’s favorite Hank Williams classic “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” which led to Scepter Records to buy out his contract and take the song to the Top 10 on the national charts. Hit after hit then followed for Thomas as he mixed genres effortlessly, joining legendary Memphis producer Chips Moman for a series of smashes (“Hooked on a Feeling,” “The Eyes of a New York Woman,” “I Just Can’t Help Believing”) and he hit paydirt with the No. 1 Bacharach-David hit “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” the Oscar-winning song from Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary.

His cross-over to country was cemented with his 1975 pop/country/adult contemporary million-seller “(Hey, Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song.” Simultaneously, Thomas became the first platinum-selling contemporary Christian recording artist with a string of hugely popular albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s which also won him five Grammys and numerous other awards.

Along the way, Thomas made countless television appearances and performed thousands of concerts into 2020 until the coronavirus pandemic brought an end to touring. His voice and energy remained almost supernaturally strong and Thomas eagerly looked forward to returning to the stage until cancer claimed his life on May 29, 2021, at the age of 78.

CD

1. Expression of Faith
2. Meet at My Heart [Previously Unreleased]
3. I Like Livin’ [Previously Unreleased]
4. When the Hero Dies [Previously Unreleased]
5. The Best Things in Life [Previously Unreleased]
6. Rock and Roll Lullaby [Previously Unreleased]
7. Hands on Me Again
8. This Ain’t a Song (It’s a Prayer)
9. Think About Me [Previously Unreleased]
10. No One Else on Earth [Previously Unreleased]
11. Our Younger Hearts [Previously Unreleased]
12. That’s The Thing About Love [Previously Unreleased]
13. Red Letter Days
14. When a Woman Talks [Previously Unreleased]
15. Love by Any Name [Previously Unreleased]
16. Memory in the Making [Previously Unreleased]
17. Wings of a Dove [Previously Unreleased]
18. America the Beautiful