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I was quite friendly with BJ and his brother Jerry those years he lived in Memphis. We both made records with Chips Moman at American studios. We were together a lot.BJ was a sweetheart of a guy. We had more fun than the law allowed and in fact, they wouldn't have allowed it. I have many BJ stories. Nothing but good memories.
Elvis rented the club, The Thunderbird Lounge, where we were the house band for 2 New Years Eves in a row. The third year he rented TJs where Ronnie Milsap (before he became a country artist) played and hired us to play late after our New Years Eve at the Thunderbird.
That first year, BJ wasn't booked and came down and we backed him. I assume Elvis liked us well enough as he hired us 3 years in a row. But who he REALLY liked was BJ. It was obvious. It was one REAL singer showing his like and respect for another REAL singer.
Rest easy BJ
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Hooked on a feeling gave me a crush on every pretty girl in junior high.
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Bob, BJ crushed it during his Elvis Week 2019 performance with an "earthshaking acapella "Peace in the Valley" in the words of Jon Warehouse.
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Bob, check out BJs cut "Mama" not as well known as the hits but a great sentimental take on the subject
Peter Miller
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Just wanted to mention Billy & Sue, one of his earliest songs & a tale of a soldier's anguish when he receives a Dear John letter from Sue. I was 12 years old & didn't know what a Dear John letter was & thought she'd sent it to the wrong soldier! Still my favorite BJT track. Best, Jeff Hayward/Maine.
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Bob...everything you said about "Hooked on a feeling" was spot on, but you missed one thing. The song was brought into current culture by "Guardians of the Galaxy". Probably a movie that wouldn't appeal to you..
My sixth grade granddaughter know the song (Blue Swede cover) by heart. When she overnights she belts it out in the shower. Not bad for a song I danced to in high school.
Gary Merker
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B.J. Thomas and The Triumphs.
Killer band back in the day!
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I was on a trip into Bowling Green , Kentucky and got snowed in..had to stay at a hotel...and B.J. Thomas was performing...I went in for the show...not really expecting much...Damn...B.J Thomas and his band blew my socks off....I was blown away..!!!!
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I was invited to a recording session at Electric Lady as I represented some of the principals, so I speak from a combination of memory and overheard--but not necessarily accurate--comments about the production of B. J. Thomas' Rock & Roll Lullaby. The record was produced by Steve Tyrell, at the time a genuine "go-to" producer (and now a successful second-career nightclub performer). He apparently wanted to hire the Beach Boys to sing the background vocal chorus on the record, but they declined. So Dave Summerville and friends did it for them (and sounded awfully close to their trademark sound). He wanted a Duane Eddy-type low twangy guitar sound on the recording as well, so he hired-----Duane Eddy! Al Gorgoni's electric guitar closed the circle of extraordinary talent and performances. (Oh, and then of course there was B.J. and the remarkable music and lyrics.) As I understand it, this 1972's "single" cost more than $10,000 to produce- -perhaps the most expensive (by far) '45 recorded to that date, resulting in some considerable anguish by Scepter Records (and presumably by Steve as well). Talk about over-budget! But it was and is a masterpiece. All lasting and memorable creations require great vision and talent. This recording had them in abundance. That the record only reached "top 15" surprised me because it will always be among my top 3 for sheer brilliance. Handing off to Steve for how he recalls what went down with this recording almost 50 years ago.
Best
Peter M. Thall
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if this isn't too late for the next "Re", I just wanted to mention that the flip side to BJ's "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" is a great song, penned by Ashford & Simpson and singer Jo Armstead - label credit to "Simspon - Ashford - Armstead"). You can hear the gospel voices, and I want to imagine that those background vocals are by Ashford & Simpson and/or Jo Armstead, themselves, but I can't find the data anywhere to validate that fantasy. -but it's a great pop-friendly song for the time, and back when we listened to our b-sides just as much as our a-sides, it was an enjoyable b-side, and now listening back, has all the [blue-eyed?] soul one would crave in such a track. Not sure if it is on one of his albums...however, I've seen it as a Ronnie Milsap a-side, also on Scepter. I almost posted about it on Instagram the very day we lost BJ, without even knowing about his condition. He's someone I would have liked to have met and seen in concert. Looking back at his discography, we again lost someone that had a part of shaping the sound of that time.
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Thanks for highlighting the career of BJ Thomas. It's a rare thing to know who's singing as soon as you hear the first few notes, and BJ was one of those artists.
He did a great interview with NSAI's Bart Herbison in the local "Tennessean" which ran just this past March. In it, BJ tells how he got to sing "Raindrops" after Ray Stevens turned it down, and how he sang the final "me-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee" somewhat extemporaneously, and why Burt Bacharach went along with it because BJ sang the rest of the song better than anyone else, and how the studio heads and radio programmers hated the song until the public loved it, of course. bjthomas.com/story-behind-the-song-b-j-thomas-raindrops-keep-fallin-on-my-head/
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Thanks for your lovely words about BJ. I've enjoyed reading the remembrances of his music and place in popular music.
BJ had a profound impact on my life. When I was 4, my family and I went to his concert in Illinois. I'd spent countless hours listening to his music, and when he saw me singing along in the audience, he invited me on stage to sing with him. He was larger than life and sounding as fantastic as ever. BJ welcomed me and made me believe that a life in music was not only possible but absolutely natural.
One of B.J. Thomas' last albums was "The Living Room Sessions" which is a stripped down "unplugged" re-recording of his classic hits. In addition to solo performances, it includes some duets with well known stars such as Vince Gill, Keb Mo and Lyle Lovett, as well as up-and-coming singers.
The problem is you can't find it anywhere! ... not on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music....Amazon only had 4 copies of the physical disc at ridiculous prices.
Was able to find a few videos of songs from the album on YouTube and I think these versions of his songs are fantastic. In particular, the duet with Vince Gill on "I Just Can't Help Believing" is sublime. Check them out:
My recently passed client of 40+ years, Mac Davis, wrote "In the Ghetto". Of course Elvis made us all lots of $, but Mac mentioned a few times he would have loved to hear B.J. sing it. Two Texas guys who remained humble…..in Mac's repertoire "It's Hard to be Humble" was his laugh at success. B.J. loved that song too!
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In hindsight, we know this was a fantastic time to buy back into the stock market. It marked the end of the worst bear market since the Great Depression.
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The employment rate in the U.S. fell for another eight months after stocks bottomed in March.
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TURBULENCE — Over the weekend, I flew with my two toddlers for the first time since last summer. On that Fourth of July weekend in 2020, in what turned out to still be the early days of the pandemic, there was no federal mask mandate in airports, though most airlines had their own mask requirements. Even though I flew on a holiday weekend, my flight last year turned out to be smooth and eerily pleasant.
This Memorial Day weekend, our experience was totally different. My two toddlers and I squeezed into a crowded Delta plane. They nearly spilled orange juice on the passenger sitting next to us. Staff were brusque in their interactions — pre-Covid, flight attendants always managed to help me board the plane, sometimes offering to hold a baby while I settled into our seats. This year, no one helped us board — airline staff were more concerned with making sure my older son and I had our masks on correctly.
Renu's older son enjoying snacks and an orange juice on his Delta flight from El Paso to Atlanta on Saturday. | Renuka Rayasam | POLITICO
We're firmly in the next era of pandemic flying, as my trip revealed. Passenger volumes are quickly approaching pre-pandemic levels. Flights are packed. No more empty middle seats. As the summer travel season starts, millions of newly vaxxed Americans are traveling to see family and friends or just escape more than a year of quarantining. Nearly 2 million people flew on Friday, matching passenger volumes from early March 2020, but still down about 600,000 passengers compared to Memorial Day weekend 2019.
But the virus threat isn't over for unvaccinated travelers. And airlines are trying to bridge two contradictory messages. They want to assure passengers that planes are safe, but also to continue to be on high alert.
This limbo state has created a noxious travel atmosphere. The threat to flight attendants has gotten the most attention: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg urged passengers Sundayto respect flight crews after a sharp rise in assaults, mostly related to attempts to enforce mask mandates. Southwest said that it wouldn't resume alcohol service after a passenger traveling from Sacramento to San Diego assaulted a flight attendant and knocked out two of her teeth. American Airlines is also delaying a return to drinking in the main cabin after the incident.
Punching a flight attendant is unforgivable, and less violent outbursts from rude passengers don't need to be tolerated, either. But even compliant people are frustrated and confused by the counterproductive overabundance of caution in the skies right now. Airline Covid rules, like outdoor mask mandates, are not always rooted in the realities of virus transmission. They're still handing out sanitizing wipes when you get on the plane. A nice touch, perhaps, but wiping down your armrest and tray table won't stop you from getting Covid. And if masks are so important, why are we allowed to take them off to eat? A friend I met in Atlanta this weekend for a walk said that on his flight from San Francisco, Delta asked passengers to re-mask in between bites and sips.
Traveling with children was never fun. But the pandemic has made it even more challenging. Ali Rizvi, a journalist who has done freelance work for POLITICO, told Nightly that a Southwest crew member refused to let his family board a flight in early Mayto Houston from Washington D.C. because their recently turned 2-year-old couldn't keep his mask on properly. Rizvi and his wife are vaccinated and were traveling to meet family for Eid celebrations after a long separation. They had their masks on, but struggled to get their toddler to wear a mask.
"We've been shocked and reeling from the ordeal," Rizvi said in an email. "The airline displayed such a lack of empathy and understanding over what parents go through to even get the courage to plan a trip with a toddler."
It's also yet another example of pandemic guidelines followed to an illogical extreme. Vaxxed, masked parents struggling to get a 2-year-old to wear a mask isn't the same as an adult who blatantly refuses to wear a mask for political reasons. But airline staff don't differentiate. The rule also ignored the realities of virus transmission — toddlers just aren't super spreaders . Rizvi said that, while they were struggling, Southwest staff peppered them with comments like "the pandemic is real." Since the trip, his toddler has refused to wear a mask at all, he said.
Southwest told Nightly that the airline crew was just trying to adhere to federal law. "We worked with the family to gain compliance prior to their flight's departure but ultimately, we were not successful," wrote Southwest spokesperson Brandy King in an email about Rizvi's situation.
She also pointed out that the federal mask mandate has been extended through Sept. 13, 2021.
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— DeSantis signs bill banning transgender women and girls from sports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law today a policy banning transgender athletes from playing girls and women's sports that opponents have condemned as deeply discriminatory against transgender athletes and students. Florida's new law establishes that women's sports from middle school through college, including intramurals and club teams, are limited to participants based on the sex listed on a student's birth certificate.
— State to gather diplomats' health details in response to Havana syndrome: The State Department is rolling out a voluntary new program to gather diplomats' baseline health information before they head to overseas posts, according to a State Department cable reviewed by POLITICO. It's part of the department's response to a wave of mysterious injuries that have harmed scores of U.S. officials in recent years — known as "Havana syndrome."
— Moderna seeks full FDA vaccine approval: Moderna has asked the FDA for full approval of its coronavirus vaccine in people 18 and older. The company is the second vaccine maker to seek full approval from U.S. regulators, which would allow it to market the shot directly to consumers. Full approval also makes it easier for schools, employers and the military to require inoculation against Covid-19.
— White House: Ransomware attack on major meat processing company 'likely' from Russia: A ransomware attack hitting the world's largest meat processing company, JBS, was from a "criminal organization likely based in Russia," the company told the White House. "The White House is engaging directly with the Russian government on this matter and delivering the message that responsible states do not harbor ransomware criminals," White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said today.
— Biden freezes oil leases in Alaska refuge pending new environmental review:The suspension of the leases follows Biden's Jan. 20 executive order that identified "alleged legal deficiencies" in the original leasing program and put in place a temporary moratorium on any oil- and gas-related activities in the refuge. The executive order also left open the possibility that the department would undertake a new environmental review to address potential legal flaws in the program.
AROUND THE WORLD
CONTINENTAL ARMY?It's time for the EU to become a global military power — and for the U.S. to stop thwarting Europe's ambitions on defense. That's according to a new report by the Center for American Progress, the Washington think tank with close ties to the Biden administration.
The report, obtained by POLITICO ahead of its release Wednesday, urges Biden to encourage the EU to develop hard-power military capabilities and calls on him to abandon decades of opposition to EU defense integration by previous U.S. leaders, under the guise of preventing wasteful duplication with NATO — which remains orthodox thinking for most American military commanders, and even for many EU governments, chief Brussels correspondent David Herszenhorn writes.
The report, published just 10 days before Biden makes his first trip abroad as president for G-7 and NATO summits, calls out Washington for hounding European allies to spend more on their militaries to reach NATO's 2 percent of GDP spending target, while preventing the EU from pursuing initiatives that would save money and improve fighting readiness. Instead, it says NATO is left to coordinate a "hodgepodge" of national forces.
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Ask The Audience
Nightly asked you: What pandemic shortages have you seen in your community? Your select, lightly edited responses are below:
"As a researcher working in a biology lab, I've seen extended shortages in basic supplies like pipette tips and centrifuge tubes. Some of my colleagues have put off experiments for weeks or months as the requisite supplies are out of stock or backordered. Some of it was due to supply chain disruptions, though I'm sure a lot of equipment was also rightfully diverted to health care causes such as protective equipment for frontline workers and Covid-19 testing kits." — Steven Cheng, graduate student, Cambridge, Mass.
"Poor availability of mountain bike tires in Hawaii and the mainland." — Elizabeth O'Keefe, retired, Hilo, Hawaii
"Kitchen appliances! I need a new dishwasher, and I chose the brand that can deliver in two months. My first choice has a six-month wait, and I just don't want to hand-wash the dishes for the four extra months." — Mary Iannucci, paralegal, San Diego
"I am chairman of the board and president of the local rural electrical cooperative in north Idaho. We have the most requests for new services in our 86-year history. People are moving here because it's a wonderful place to live and telecommute. However, we are having trouble obtaining transformers, so much so that we are recovering those that have been deployed, but are not in use. We cannot obtain enough conduit for underground wires. Concrete is in short supply (used for many things, including transformer pedestals). Worse, if we find what we need, we cannot find drivers to haul it to us." — Steve Elgar, Sandpoint, Idaho
"Fresca (in any flavor) has been intermittently available. I haven't been able to get it in cans in a year, and 2-liter bottles are only sometimes available." — Beverly Carey, federal procurement officer, Highland Park, Colo.
"Canning jar lids! I have been making jam with summer fruits for 40 years. Today it was time to turn a heaping flat of strawberries into jam. I have plenty of jars but need new lids. Similar problem last summer. Can't help but think there are wannabe survivalists who thought they would become home canners but never did who have stashed away unopened jars and/or lids. Just sayin'!" — Karel Robertson, retired, Bethesda, Md.
"Canned cat food! I'm not sure the same is true of dog food, because I don't have a dog. But my cat's favorite canned foods (Fancy Feast and Friskies) are still very hard to find around here in Southern California. Sometimes I have to hit two or three grocery stores to find His Majesty's preferred flavors. Mainstream news stories on this shortage are a little hard to find, but pet food industry publications have confirmed this is actually a thing, caused by a perfect storm of various elements. His Majesty is most displeased." — Mary Platt, university art museum director, Orange, Calif.
On The Economy
TO THE MOON OR STUCK ON THE LAUNCH PAD?It's big. But Wall Street wants it to be even bigger. In the latest POLITICO Dispatch, financial services reporter Kellie Mejdrich reports on an effort to open up access to Bitcoin investment — and explains why it's facing opposition in Washington.
The total spending on federal election campaigns last year, a sharp increase from $1.6 billion in 1998, according to an FEC watchdog report. The agency says it is struggling to keep up with the surge in spending, as its annual budget has failed to even keep up with inflation. (h/t POLITICO Influence)
"We do ourselves no favors by pretending none of this ever happened or it doesn't impact us today, because it still does impact us today," Biden said, speaking at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Okla. "We can't just choose to learn what we want to know, and not what we should know. We should know the good, the bad, everything. That's what great nations do. They come to terms with their dark sides."
Biden — the first president to participate in a commemoration of the destruction of the flourishing community known as Black Wall Street — called for a moment of silence in honor of the 300 Black people who were killed a century ago.
"May their souls rest in peace," Biden said before bowing his head.
"My fellow Americans, this was not a riot," the president said, looking back up at the crowd. "This was a massacre."
Be sure not to miss: Eugene Daniel's piece from the ground in Tulsa on a woman whose great-grandmother survived the Tulsa race massacre and is now pushing the White House on reparations.
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DRUNK AND TRIGGERED Moments before he shot Lilybeth Valdez, 52, through the neck, Police Master Sgt. Hensie Zinampan is seen in this video grab pulling her hair and confronting her about an earlier scuffle with her son. The shooting in Fairview, Quezon City, on Monday recalls a similar incident where Tarlac policeman Jonel Nuezca shot dead Sonya Gregorio and her son Frank in December last year. Both Zinampan and Nuezca are facing murder charges.
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‘Dante’ floods Agusan, threatens E. Visayas
At least 200 families in Agusan del Norte province fled their homes due to floods triggered by heavy rain since Monday night as Tropical Storm “Dante” (international name: Choi-wan) continued to inch closer to the Philippine landmass. Dante slightly weakened but still posed a threat to Eastern Visayas region, where it was expected to make landfall between Tuesday night and early Wednesday. —Story by Erwin M. Mascariñas and Jhesset O. Enano
PARIS—More than a third of summer heat-related fatalities are due to climate change, according to researchers who on Monday warned of even higher death tolls as global temperatures climb. A newly published study covering 43 countries shows that, on average, 37 percent of such deaths can be attributed directly to global warming. If applied worldwide, it means more than 100,000 deaths a year. —Story by AFP
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President Duterte seems to be countermanding a transparent investigation of the thousands of killings in his brutal war on drugs by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Philippine National Police after he stopped the full disclosure of all records pertaining to antidrug operations, human rights groups said on Tuesday.
Invoking national security similar to the anti-insurgency campaign, the President said the government cannot release all police records as they contain information about certain personalities that must be kept confidential.
“We have records that those who have died, but who have derogatory records in our files, and may have references to certain people and what they do, we cannot divulge it to anybody but only to the military and to the police,” he said in his televised public address on Monday night.
Mr. Duterte said that how a gunfight happened may be inquired into. “But if you say what prompted the police and the military to go into this kind of operation based on their reports and collated dossier, you cannot go into that,” he said.
The President’s statements followed pronouncements by PNP chief Guillermo Eleazar that he would open drug war reports for scrutiny by the DOJ, whose investigation is intended to determine any liability in the deaths resulting from antinarcotics operations.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra had praised Eleazar’s decision as a “very significant milestone in the government’s efforts to exact accountability.”
The drug war has been criticized for the overwhelming number of suspects killed for allegedly fighting back in what has been called “nanlaban” deaths.
‘Confusing signals’
Mr. Duterte’s statements were “not only an open signal but practically a marching order that effectively countermands the subsequent afterthought of a purported ‘openness’ of the PNP to have access to all files,” according to Edre Olalia, president of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL).
“Once again, his subordinates get mixed and even contradictory and confusing signals for them to scramble and fix,” Olalia said. “When the principal leader speaks, those who speak too soon will have to change tune to sync with him.”
The President’s statement “only bolsters our suspicion that all this (investigation) was just for show, to mislead and appease the international community,” Carlos Conde, senior researcher for the New York-based Human Rights Watch, told the Inquirer.
“This is worrisome, of course, because Mr. Duterte has the final say in this, so, whatever good things Eleazar and [the] DOJ are planning—that’s all for naught,” he said.
Conde said that with this statement from the President, the only way for the Philippines to ensure accountability was for the United Nations Human Rights Commission and the International Criminal Court to take action.
This effort to block full access to the police files is another example of the “inadequacy and even failure of domestic mechanisms in the Philippines,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay.
Palace interpretation
“We will be closely watching Eleazar’s actions after President Duterte’s statement, but the fact still remains—the drug war victims and their kin need answers, and they need to be afforded justice,” Palabay said.
Eleazar said the PNP would make case records that the DOJ may request available for review “as long as we do not violate the Data Privacy Law,” pointing out that he saw no problem submitting such files as the justice secretary was Mr. Duterte’s alter ego.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque provided a different interpretation of Mr. Duterte’s statements.
He said these did not pertain to the DOJ’s access to police records but to sensitive information about “ongoing police investigations,” which are part of the “traditional exception to the right to information.”
Reacting to the President’s statements, Guevarra on Tuesday said: “We’ll play it by ear.” “There’s this concern on the part of the President so we’ll just maybe be more careful when the PNP and the DOJ examine all of these records anew,” he said.
Supreme Court ruling
He acknowledged that the Supreme Court had ruled that national security was not at stake in the antinarcotics campaign, but he said that the DOJ would “just make it a point to determine whether there is any national security concern involved in each particular case.” In a ruling on April 3, 2018, the high tribunal rejected the argument of the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) that the drug war records “involve sensitive information that have national security implications” when the OSG refused to submit PNP investigation reports on the deaths of 3,806 individuals killed in police antidrug operations from July 1, 2016, to Nov. 30, 2017.
The high tribunal said the information being sought only covered “routine police operations.”
“These information and documents do not involve rebellion, invasion, terrorism, espionage, infringement of our sovereignty or sovereign rights by foreign powers, or any military, diplomatic or state secret involving national security,” it said.
In addition, the court said the PNP “cannot claim the presumption of regularity in official functions because deaths are not supposed to occur during any of their operations.” —WITH REPORTS FROM JEANNETTE I. ANDRADE AND MARLON RAMOS
Local government units are bearing the brunt of the difficult task of convincing more Filipinos to get jabbed against COVID-19. With the education campaign on the benefits of vaccination hardly seen and heard, many Filipinos have had to rely on conflicting information and mixed signals from Malacañang to help them decide. The result? Disturbing survey figures: Per Social Weather Stations, only three of 10 adult Filipinos are willing to get jabbed for free with a vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration; per Pulse Asia, 61 percent are unwilling, the No. 1 reason being safety concerns.
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