Another one leaves us: B.J. Thomas, known for his big 1970 hit "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" (from BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID), and the 1975 pop/C&W #1 smash "Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song", has succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 78:
"I don't think of myself as a star. I didn't set out to become a star, I set out to become a singer. I would have sung no matter what. The star part is just something that they made up in Hollywood in 1930."--Linda Ronstadt