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Celebrating 50 Year Career of Hitmaker BJ Thomas

Celebrating the 50 Year Career of BJ Thomas!

GREATGOLD NEWS – One of the most prolific recording artists with a career that spanned from 1966 through 2017 left a huge collection of musical performances when he left this earth in 2021. BJ Thomas passed away May 29, 2021 at the age of 78. He left a huge catalog of recordings that gained millions of sales to fans far and wide, from “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” in 1966, to “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” in 1969, to “Rock and Roll Lullabye” in 1972, to “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song” in 1975, and dozens more in-between and after.

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BJ Thomas was blessed with Grammy Awards, Dove Awards, and the Grammy Hall of Fame Award. His albums and singles became classics on rock, pop, and country radio, and many of his works had a following in the world of Christian and gospel radio.

The iconic career of BJ Thomas included 50 hit singles and more than 50 albums. Many of his extensive best hits are included in the GreatGold Classic Hit Oldies library at GreatGold.fm Internet Radio and can be heard in the GreatGold Mix often around the world throughout the day and night.

THE MUSIC HEARD on GreatGold Internet Radio is curated, cataloged, processed into digital for listening on the internet, researched, programed, presented, and announced by Gary W. Morgan.

Before getting involved in internet radio, Gary’s professional career from 1966-2002 included on-air experience as a broadcast radio announcer, personality, music director, program director, commercial continuity director, commercial copywriter, commercial production specialist, news reporter, news director, radio rock show host, on-air interviewer, news anchor, and salesperson. He even managed a broadcast radio station in the 1970s before being editor of a newspaper for several years.

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Since the turn of the century, Gary Morgan has been adapting all of his combined years of work experience and talents on the internet as a webmaster, content provider, editor, website developer-builder, website graphics creator, and manager-producer-music director-voice for GreatGold.fm Internet Radio. The latter is the occupation he likely enjoys the most. The music he plays on GreatGold.fm is music that he has purchased, and listened to his entire life, from the years in his baby crib, through high school dating, marriage, fatherhood, and into the now, his semi-retirement years.

It’s easy to listen to GreatGold through a WiFi connection with the player on our website pages on your cellphone, or desktop pc, laptop, and tablet, or searching for GreatGold on your favorite internet radio mobile music app. Click below to listen now. Make sure you have your speakers on or headphones plugged in, and be sure to turn off the mute. If you wish, you can listen using the “Play In Your WinAmp Software” link on our LISTEN NOW Audio-Player page. Just click or tap on the WinAmp link instead of using the in-browser player. That will connect our stream to the WinAmp player software on your computer. Or, you can listen with your favorite internet radio mobile app. It’s your choice. We’re doing it your way.

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