BJ Thomas poses for a portrait in circa 1975.
Forever No. 1 is a Billboard
series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single by taking an extended look back at the chart-topping songs that made them part of this exclusive club. Here, we honor the late B.J. Thomas with a look at his second and final Hot 100 No. 1, the 1975 country meta-weeper (Hey Won t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song.
Listeners mostly familiar with B.J. Thomas as the performer of the better-remembered No. 1 hit Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head or as the original singer of the breezy pop culture staple Hooked on a Feeling might be surprised to hear that his second No. 1 came with a country song. But Thomas roots in the genre ran deep, dating back to an early love of Hank Williams growing up in Texas that eventually led to a cover of the country legend s signature balla