IN MEMORIAM

B.J. Thomas, who died May 29 at age 78, had 26 pop Top 100 songs in the 1960s through the 1980s. His biggest pop hits were his three gold singles. First there was “Hooked on a Feeling,” charting in late 1968 through early 1969, with Reggie Young (from the American Sound Studio house band, The Memphis Boys) on electric sitar. Next there was the Academy Award-winning Hal David and Burt Bacharach composition “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” from the film This song stayed in the Top 40 for 19 weeks