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Music Videos were first produced during the third series of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends in 1992. These videos featured their own songs, primarily sung by local British children's choirs, with Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends veterans Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell occasionally providing backing vocals or taking the lead. This lasted until the tail-end of the model series, and the songs have since been sung by professional singers. Since Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure, some songs have been sung by the characters, a format that specials used exclusively. From 1994 to 2003, the songs were based on the theme tunes of a specific character, place or type of job that the engines would do, which were composed by both Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell. Several have been released on CD as audiobooks or music albums. At the end of all six episodes of "Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales", "Thomas' Anthem" would play during the end credits instead of "Shining Time Station Theme Song". This was a short lived spin off series of "Shining Time Station" and aired on October 6, 1996 and ended on November 11, 1996. The series ran for six episodes and starred the late George Carlin as Mr. Conductor.
For Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, music videos and songs are a big feature in the series with one being played every two episodes. Unlike those from the original series, which are usually sung by offscreen singers and only occasionally featured character-sung tracks, the All Engines Go songs are exclusively character-performed.
Thomas and his mother and sister moved to Sarasota, Florida, when he was 10, then settled in the Orlando area the following year.[3][4] Around this time, Thomas received his first musical instrument, a Casio keyboard.[4] A friend taught him to play, and Thomas practiced by trying to reproduce the songs he heard on the radio.[3][4] He also acquired a guitar with no strings, which he used as a prop while he pretended he was in a rock band.[6]
Soon after getting out of jail, Thomas connected with several local musicians.[9] He played in a series of cover bands[6] and began writing songs in earnest. Thomas said that "in songwriting I felt special for the first time. And all I wanted to do was get out of Florida."[9] One of his bands, Fair Warning, earned a three-week job playing at a hotel in Vero Beach. They were fired three days into the job, after they were caught stealing beer and candy from the hotel.[6] He was, at one point, a member of another band, Tidal Wave, which played mostly surf tunes.[5]
Thomas used drugs, and during one acid trip, he decided to play with dry ice. His hands were burned so badly that doctors initially thought they would require amputation. Thomas' sister recalled that while she was concerned with how Thomas would manage everyday activities, Thomas cried and asked, "How am I going to get these songs in my head out if I can't play them?"[4]
In 1993, Thomas formed the band Tabitha's Secret. Brian Yale was the group's bass player. Paul Doucette earned a spot as drummer after answering an ad.[6] Guitarists Jay Stanley and John Goff rounded out the band.[10] The band was popular in the Orlando area,[7] where they played in bars and nightclubs. Most of their songs were written by Thomas, including "3 A.M."[6] This song, inspired by his time taking care of his mother, was the first that he had ever written and liked. In an effort to recreate that magic, his writing shifted to focus more on emotions inspired from his own life.[11]
The band recorded several demo tapes, with Serletic as their producer. Three radio stations in Orlando and Tampa added the songs to their rotations. Executives at Atlantic Records noticed that the songs were being requested frequently. Although the band sounded very green, executives thought the songs were good.[12] The band was soon signed to Atlantic subsidiary Lava Records.[6]
The song was recorded live, in three takes. Thomas was not aware that it was going to be released as a single until he heard it on the radio. It was a massive hit, spending 58 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Billboard later named it the number 2 Hot 100 song of all time. It won three Grammy Awards, for Best Record, Best Song, and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.[17] Its success earned him instant credibility as a songwriter.[21] BMI named Thomas its 1999 Pop Songwriter of the Year for "Smooth" and his Matchbox 20 songs.[12] "Smooth" would ultimately become the second biggest-selling single of all time, after Chubby Checker's "The Twist."[22]
"Smooth" increased his visibility, and that of Matchbox 20.[12] The song's video, starring Thomas, was played extensively on VH1 and MTV. That exposure launched him out of anonymity.[15] A new set of listeners, older than the band's initial fan base, was exposed to, and liked, Thomas's work.[21] Yourself or Someone Like You continued to sell briskly.[12] After winning at the Grammy Awards, Atlantic took out ads in many industry publications to make executives aware that Thomas had written not only "Smooth", but also all of the songs on the Matchbox 20 album. Ron Shapiro, an executive at Atlantic, said, "It was our intent to get Rob and this band a substantial amount of credibility."[21]
As Matchbox 20 prepared to record their second album, band members had heated discussions over song selection. After flirting with the idea of allowing other band members to provide songs, they chose to record only songs that Thomas had written or co-written.[6] They renamed themselves Matchbox Twenty and, in March 2000, released Mad Season.[6][21] Its first single, "Bent",[6] reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; it remains the band's only number one hit, despite larger commercial success on previous material. Their tour took them to 87 cities,[23] and they sold out Madison Square Garden in 15 minutes.[24]
When Santana prepared to record his follow-up to Supernatural, he sought to collaborate with Thomas again. Instead of providing vocals, Thomas wrote two songs for the album, which were recorded by Seal and Musiq.[15] Thomas provided songs to other artists as well. Willie Nelson recorded three of Thomas's songs on his 2002 album The Great Divide. One of those, "Recollection Phoenix", had been in contention for the next Matchbox Twenty album before the other band members had decided it wasn't a good fit.[15]
The third Matchbox Twenty album, More Than You Think You Are, wasn't complete until four weeks before its release date, November 19, 2002. For the first time, the band recorded a song not written by Thomas. Two other songs were jointly attributed to Thomas, Cook, and Doucette. As part of the promotion for the album, Thomas and his bandmates were featured on VH1's Behind the Music.[24] When the tour for More Than You Think You Are ended, Thomas, Cook, Doucette, Yale, and Gaynor decided to take a break to focus on their families.[26]
On April 19, 2005, Thomas began his solo career with the release of ...Something to Be which debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.[27] The album included several songs that the other Matchbox Twenty members had rejected, such as "I Am An Illusion".[15] The album was more pop than Thomas's Matchbox Twenty work, adding quirks like sampling and loops. It earned two Grammy nominations,[26] for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance.
Thomas reunited with his Matchbox Twenty bandmates in 2007. Gaynor had left the band, leaving only four of them. They decided to release a greatest hits album with a few new songs. They had so much fun collaborating that the new release, Exile on Mainstream, included six new songs.[29] The album released three singles: "How Far We've Come", "All Your Reasons", and "These Hard Times".[29] The album debuted at number 3.[30]
On September 15, 2008, Thomas told Billboard his second solo album was tentatively called Cradle Songs.[31] Thomas characterized the album as "the usual mish-mosh of styles, but hopefully just holding true to a bunch of good songs." The article also mentioned that the record would nonetheless feature several tracks that "take a more global, rhythmic direction after working with South American and African percussionists." Thomas explained one such experiment:
Thomas has also stated via Twitter that Cradlesong had been mastered and featured fourteen tracks culled from the twenty-four songs recorded during the album sessions.[34] All twenty-four tracks were fully mixed and mastered, leaving plenty of material left over for B-sides, iTunes, or EPs.
In March 2010, Thomas announced plans to release a four-song digital-only EP entitled the Someday EP. Featuring three new songs, the EP was released to iTunes on March 30, 2010, and all other digital retailers April 6, 2010.[36]
After his solo success, many of Thomas's confidants urged him to leave Matchbox Twenty.[37] As Thomas wrapped up his tour for Cradlesong, he began writing songs for consideration for the next Matchbox Twenty album.[38] He gathered in Nashville, Tennessee, with his bandmates to narrow down the work he had already done and develop new material. The group members disagreed on which musical direction the new album should take. For three months, they argued and drank, in what Thomas describes as a "$100,000 bender".[39] Finally, producer Serletic appeared and told them to stop drinking and get to work. The lecture worked. The result was a true collaboration.[39] For the first time, the band recorded several songs written solely by Doucette and Yale.[40]
On October 7, 2021, Thomas announced that his first Christmas studio album titled "Something About Christmas Time" will be released on October 22. He recorded the album, which will include both original and cover songs, in his home studio in New York during the summer.[49][50]Matchbox Twenty got back together for "Where the Light Goes" album in May 2023, which is being toured in 2024 [51][52][53]
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