B J Thomas Everybody's Out Of Town

[RegisPPalmer]

Super vocals as usual..a most unique arrangement... great upload thanks

[surfside48]

I found this album when I was stationed in Bermerton,W

ashington in 1970-'71.I still have it,with the rest of my 33&1/3s and my 45rpm's.

[elcabrone]

this is really a simple song but B.J.'s voice makes it sound so smooth. very nice. had forgotten about this little gem of a song.

[frankstelt]

I remember this tune from BJ's heyday too. Funny, if today's radio stations played this, they'd get all kinds of requests from this generation...what's that? Who's that? Love it.But no radio station these stays would go so radical as to play a hit from forty years ago, even though it might get them more ratings.

[nanlisa]

I was only 12 when this song first came out. I bought the 45 two years later (when I was only 14). I haven't heard this song in such a long time! I just love this song.

[nenetgo]

Great song and rendition. Would have been appropriate since people were expecting "The Rupture" today. Glad it did not happen and I can still enjoy this.

[RudesterX]

I used to have this album as a kid.

[joliphantful]

Just as good as Raindrops,sounds like it was recorded for a movie that was never made,or possibly made,but never released, a good song.

[luiz70650]

burt bacharach & bj thomas ... que combinação maravilhosaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! ..

ouvindo essa melodia se perde o medo de ser sózinho em um quarto e transforma todos os sonhos numa só pessoa . essa música e eu vivemos ainda uma relação de amor , como quando alguém deixa um bilhete de amor onde sempre será encontrado . é a mais bela canção do bj thomas .

[BaldingMusicFan]

What an amazing voice BJ has, you can pick it from a thousand singers, very unique.

[swash6180]

Thanks for Posting This Fantatstic Song!! Made My Day!!

[theboyfromxtown]

I love this song...Burt Bacharach is a genius

[MrAlQ]

ah, the not-quite-as-big follow-up to "Raindrops" but a song I like a lot more...

[ssm3141]

I'll be if I don't love Youtube! I've loved this song also since it's original release but, because it wasn't the kind of tune you played out loud in my neighborhood, I just kept it close all these years. In fact, I thought nobody knew/remembered this song but me. Wow, all I can do is smile and remember...Wow...

[CastleOfThoughts]

A very different kind of song. This was written by Burt B. wasn't it? In any case, it was a fave for me when it first was released.

[bingotheraccoon]

I love this song. And it isn't on amazon or i-tunes...  :(

[alexdias86]

Eu tenho esse LP desde quando eu era uma adolecente. Passava as tardes ouvindo B.J.Thomas e imaginando como ele era como pessoa, além do talentoso cantor.

[mmangum4444]

My favorite BJ song! Thank for posting!

[wohpdj]

Thanks for putting this on. I was a Sr in high school in 1970 and was working in a radio station. Love this song and could not find it till now.

[peteboy1113]

i was in 7th grade. now i wish i was still in 7th garde. everything was free. oh well.

[peteboy1113]

man i found this great oldie but goodie, from 1970 april i think. thanks so much for playing this.

[pewmanfustudios]

Cool tune. I have a lot of BJ's LP's but I don't have this one. I have it on the Greatest Hits CD though.

[surfside48]

Thank-you Oiyoo for posting this song. I have that same album. Got it new in the late '70s I think. Have this song on BJ's greatest hits cassette. Born Billy Joe Thomas on 8/7/42 in Hugo, Oklahoma;raised in Rosenberg, Texas. Thomas was A Pop-Country singer.His early 1966 songs were with A group listed as "B.J. Thomas And The Triumphs." Everbody's Out of Town made it to #26 in April of 1970 on the Billboards top 40 charts.

[KatradioNY]

One of THE best! Bacharach's quirky arrangements along with Hal David's lyrics aptly describe the point!

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

This used to play in the morning on the radio, before we went to school. KMRC Morgan City, LA Fourteen Thirty, on your dial. We kids all loved it and Mom would say, "Such a charming song." And it was. And it still is. Makes me think of the Charlton Heston flick The Omega Man.

[nevadasestamibi]

It was supposed to be BJ's attempt at social commentary--a description of life after the nuclear holocaust.

Personally, I think Marvin Gaye did it better in his trilogy: "What's Goin' On?", "Inner City Blues", and "Mercy, Mercy, Me"

[vinylsingleman]

I think that's comparing apples and oranges, really. All of the tunes you mentioned are fine, but so is this one, and being a different style I think comparing it to Marvin's is a bit unfair.

[nevadasestamibi]

I wasn't commenting about the style, but rather the content. The fact is that this wasn't one of BJ's bigger hits.

[vinylsingleman]

Well, that's true, it wasn't as big a hit, but you said "personally", so I didn't think it related to mass popularity. I'll agree, though, that the social commentary in Marvin's three hits you mentioned is far more up front than it is in this song. This one's very subtle; perhaps many didn't even think it was a social commentary at all. You have to think about it a lot before seeing it....not always a bad thing.

[elevenway]

I saw the video when I was a kid in the 70's. The little boy was all alone.

[dpmetiger]

bought this album when I was about 9 in about 1971. A friend back then would laugh at me because they were listening to all the c00l bands and I was listening to b.j. thomas !

[thinkbck]

This song has always been one of my favorite. There is a video out there somewhere for this song. It has a little boy running everywhere around town looking for people. My guess - the reason it really never made it big is because the arrangement sounds too much like one of those oompah-pahs. ROFLLLL

oompah |ˈoōmˌpä; ˈoŏm-| (also oompah-pah) informal

noun used to refer to the rhythmical sound of deep-toned brass instruments in a band.

[elevenway]

@thinkbck

I remember seeing that video with the little boy, thought I was the only one.

[CyberRoy72]

This song is great, for some reason it never made it big...I love it.