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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

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