
Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970: #307: ” I Just Can’t Help Believing”- B.J. Thomas. June 20, 1970.
- Single: “I Just Can’t Help Believing”- B.J. Thomas
- Record Company- Scepter
- Genre: Pop
- Written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
- Time: 2:57
- B-side:” Send My Picture To Scranton, PA”
- Album-Everybody’s Out Of Town
- Grade: B-
- Peaked at #9 13 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100.
B.J. Thomas- pop -country singer had from 1966-83 26 Hot 100 singles/ 14 made the Top 40. He is remembered for his 2 #1 hits – 1970’s “Rain Drops Keep Fallin’ On My Head”- and 1975’s – Hey Won’t You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song.” Elvis Presley recorded a version of “I Just Can’t Help Believing” which went to #6 in the UK Singles chart.
The melody for this song is like, “Hooked on a Feeling,” which I just realized as I tried to started singing it instead of this song lol
I agree- while listening I thought it sounded familiar but couldn’t put my finger on it.
B.J. Thomas could sing me the phone book.