Editing B. J. Thomas (section)

===1980s–2010s===
During the 1980s, Thomas had little success on the pop charts, but some of his singles topped the country singles chart. Two of those songs included "[[Whatever Happened to Old-Fashioned Love]]" and "[[New Looks from an Old Lover]]" in 1983. Additionally, "[[Two Car Garage]]" reached No. 3 on the country charts. In 1981, on his 39th birthday, Thomas became the 60th member of the ''[[Grand Ole Opry]]''.<ref>Gary James, [http://www.classicbands.com/BJThomasInterview.html Interview with B.J. Thomas] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191253/http://www.classicbands.com/BJThomasInterview.html |date=March 3, 2016 }}, 2005; www.classicbands.com.</ref> His Opry membership later lapsed, with the Opry classifying him as a non-regular "guest artist".<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 30, 2014 |title=B.J. Thomas |url=https://www.opry.com/artist/bj-thomas |access-date=May 13, 2019 |website=Grand Ole Opry}}</ref> He scored another hit, recording "[[Growing Pains#Theme song|As Long as We Got Each Other]]", the [[theme music|theme song]] for the television series ''[[Growing Pains]]''. The first-season theme was a solo for Thomas; it was re-recorded as a duet with [[Jennifer Warnes]] for the second and third seasons. For the show's fourth season, it was re-recorded with [[Music of the United Kingdom|British]] singer [[Dusty Springfield]], however the Thomas/Warnes version was used for season five and part of season seven. Thomas first released the track on his 1985 album ''Throwing Rocks at the Moon'' via [[Columbia Records]].[[File:B J Thomas Dec 2012.jpg|thumb|Thomas in December 2012]]

Thomas also wrote two books, including the autobiography ''Home Where I Belong'' and starred in the movies ''[[Jory (film)|Jory]]'' and ''[[Jake's Corner (film)|Jake's Corner]]''. Several commercial [[jingle]]s including ones for [[Coca-Cola]], [[Pepsi]] and [[Bell System|Bell Telephone]], have featured him singing and his music. On December 31, 2011, Thomas was the featured [[halftime show|halftime performer]] at the [[2011 Sun Bowl|2011 Hyundai Sun Bowl]] in [[El Paso, Texas]]. On April 2, 2013, he released ''The Living Room Sessions'', an album with acoustic arrangements of well-known hits. It featured guest appearances with established and emerging vocalists, accompanying Thomas on seven of the album's twelve tracks.<ref name="Living Room Sessions">{{Cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |year=2013 |title=B.J. Thomas The Living Room Sessions |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-living-room-sessions-mw0002486907 |access-date=December 3, 2013 |website=The Living Room Sessions |publisher=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>

On December 3, 2013, the [[The Recording Academy|National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]] announced that the 1969 single "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" by Thomas would be inducted into the 2014 [[Grammy Hall of Fame]].<ref name="2014 Grammy">{{Cite web |date=December 3, 2013 |title=2014 Grammy Hall of Fame |url=http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/press-release/the-recording-academy-announces-2014-grammy-hall-of-fame-inductees |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203213107/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/press-release/the-recording-academy-announces-2014-grammy-hall-of-fame-inductees |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |access-date=December 3, 2013 |website=Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head |publisher=The Recording Academy}}</ref>