Thomas, B.J. - Everybody's Out Of Town Lyrics

this song to me sounds like the rapture

I bought this 45 when it was released and it's still one of my all time favorites! Still have the 45 to play once in a while!

B.J. makes a hit out this Burt Bacharach song.. I loved it when it came out.. still do

Beautiful Song.
Magnificent Voice.
Burt Bacharach Magic.

My least favorite B. J. Thomas single song. Too slow-paced, the singing seems forced and the background instrumentation is boring. For me, there are MUCH better songs by him.

Without a doubt THE BEST song he ever recorded.

This sums up an empty and hot mid-to-late Manhattan perfectly!

Remember hearing this on the old WKBW radio in Buffalo-that station really helped shape my taste in music for the rest of my life- forever grateful...

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Thanks for the B J Thomas upload of : Everybodys Out Of Town ! I remember when this song was brand new played on the radio .around 1969 🎤🎺 🎻🎹 🎵

Unusual for a song with banjo and tuba to be so big.. And of this would've been a good cover for Peggy Lee, reminiscent of "Is That All There Is", lyric and music wise...

Una de mis canciones favoritas gracias b j Thomas!!!

A real message here!

I dont mean this in a nasty way, but this song came to mind thinking of the Florida evacuation.

this song and his version of "hooked on a feeling" are his two peaks for me. And,of course, Mama from long before this song

Bj 's a great balladeer! and with Bacharach you can't go wrong!

Loved this song forever.

Best one by BJ, as far as I am concerned.

I was just thinking of this song. Several of my favorite musicians, became religious. I was in my thoughts during my senior year at Elias Brothers Big Boy restaurant, often hearing BJ on the jukebox, including 'Everybody's Out of Town'. Great mood lifting song!

Raindrops fallin on my head.

@ Gary Brice I agree!

Haunting, mysterious

this song would be perfect for the ending scenes of the film Dr Strangelove !

It's going in the next Fallout game for sure

Great Bachrach/David song. I think it's an expression of real lonliness. Love the trombone at the beginning and end, gives a humorous note to a serious song.

Don Sebesky calls that the sad clown effect in his textbook on arranging THE CONTEMPORAY ARRANGER [ h e worked with Burt on some Dionne Warwick records ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M-oOQsPY4w

I wonder what's the meaning of this song?

1967.Wonder if it was re-released a 2nd time.Thanks anyways.

@MIKECNW That's GOT to be the case; I'm not an argumentative person by nature, but I will definitely argue that the song wasn't released until 1970. I wonder if the single record was released in 1967 and then the LP in 1970. In any event, unless I have finally slipped off the "deep end" entirely, I am sure I heard it on the car radio in August or September 1967 which I can recall only because it was a particularly unhappy time for my family, right before we ended up here in this town in which we really didn't want to have to come.

...Musically , I must say it sounds rather inspired by - " following up " - B/D's Raindrops Keep Falling , however .

@kristen price Very good point which I hadn't considered. Everybody's Out of Town has the same basic rhythm. And this just made me think of that year 1968 when both the songs "Raindrops..." and "Jean" were up for Academy Awards: Dad liked "Raindrops" and Mom was hoping "Jean" would win. And I liked both so I was happy that at least one of them won!

Loneliness, for whatever reason, probably lost love...there is no definitive answer, despite the attempts by some to insist that we interpret it as a social statement

i haven't heard this since early 1970s. I hear it again ,at 1:37 - 1: 40, Sue Thompson's "Paper Tiger" is brought to mind. I like the song and title.

Great, slightly off beat tune. kind of like, "Is that all there is?", by Peggy Lee.

Yes, Peggy should have covered this!

Burt Bacharach song and arrangement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M-oOQsPY4w

Yes, you nailed it

I also had forgotten this song from 1970.  Reminds me a bit of "Everyone's gone to the moon"

An odd song,  that I remember  from back in the day,   and I'm happy to hear it again!

Sort of melancholy, yet sort of carefree....

Theme song for Today's Detroit............................................................Pauli D.

I was only 12 when this song was out. Another song that they don't play on the radio anymore.

Funny, I heard this song today on the radio :)

I was 17. Imagine I lately caught this song on Polish radio?

On this day in 1970 {April 25th} B.J. Thomas performed "I Just Can't Help Believing" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
Two months later on June 14th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #82; and on August 16th it peaked at #9 {for 1 week} and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
On the day of this appearance on 'Bandstand' he was at #26 on the Top 100 with "Everybody's Out of Town"; but he didn't perform the song on the show...
B.J. {Billy Joe} Thomas will celebrate his 72nd birthday this coming August 7th, 2014...

sauquoit13456 : Thank you so very much for the info on BJ'S song "Everey bodys out of Town" . This also is a favorite of mine as well as Raindrops keep falling on my head. I'm grateful for your Info & its very intereting to know this. Thanks again and Thank you BJ Thomas for your Many songs that I absolutely love and I can go on and on so Goodnight 💋 to all fellow music lovers on this 👌 great planet earth. Respectfully. MP

With a name like BJ, he should have been a way bigger star.lol

Deeply melodic but in an off kilter kind of way. Could only have been written by Burt.

what a shame!please post it, the best cut on this old lp was bjs version of the great song everybodys talkin. he does it better than nillson, and i love that version, but bj outdid him with this great song. if you can post that song, please do it!!bob whitaker

#1 song

put the whole album on here

My big brother was alive when this song came out. What a magical world back then, the year was 1970.

Sort of a whimsical song....but it's so good....!!!! Thank you Mr. David, Mr. Bachrach and Mr. Thomas....!!!!

#1 song

It's just amazing how many Bacharach gems one can even though they think they've already got 'em all. Great song, and BJ does well with it.

i have a request:
i was hoping one among you wouldn't mind being used to upload:
artist: b.j. thomas
album: everybody's out of town
the whole album, please?

looks like it happened

Love this introspective song....!!!!

this song could be the theme song for a zombie movie!

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.

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.

I used to have this album as a kid.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

My favorite BJ song! Thank for posting!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

This was written into the screenplay of Omega Man, it was originally meant to open the film as he drives around post-apocalyptic LA.

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"

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

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