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Tom Jones (singer)
Tom Jones is a Welsh singer who was born in 1940. He has been creating various albums and singles since 1963 and many of his tracks are based were inspired by Blues and Gospel music.
165 Questions
Yes... but he only wears it when he is displaying his chest.
What is the connection between tom Jones and dean martin?
The connection between Dean Martin and Tom Jones is that they both share the same birth day. June 7th. (along with Prince)
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What are the names of Tom Jones backup singers for his Cardiff Castle Concert?
Darelle Holden, Sharon Hendrix and Cristi Black.
Did tom Jones ever record the anniversary waltz?
Yes, in 1976 on the album Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow.It's a beautiful version of the song and is called the Anniversary Song.
June 7. The year he was born was 1940.
June 7. The year he was born was 1940.
June 7. The year he was born was 1940.
June 7. The year he was born was 1940.
June 7. The year he was born was 1940.
June 7. The year he was born was 1940.
Henry Fielding, author of â??Tom Jonesâ?? believed women ceded whatever independence and financial power they possessed to marriage when their property automatically became their husband's. After marriage, her rights as an individual ceased to exist and she merely became an extension of her husband.
Did tom Jones ever have a nose job?
Yes, sometime between 1965 and 1968. Personally I think he looked far sexier with his original nose. His nose always looked lost in his rather large face after he'd had it reduced. Why don't people leave well alone?
Over the years Jones has stated in interviews that he originally was influenced by the 50's rock sound of acts like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, he was a fan of American R&B music and a huge fan of Elvis Presley. By his own admission, it was not until after he became famous some years later that he developed an appreciation for pop balladeers such as Sinatra and Tony Bennett.
Tom Jones live at the talk of the town?
This is the name of Jones 1967 live concert album, taped at London's Talk Of The Town Concert Hall. The album (known as Tom Jones Live in the US) was a Top 20 hit in both the US and UK.
What are the lyrics to The Snake by Tom Jones?
On her way to work one morning on a ridge along side a lake
A tender-hearted woman saw a poor half frozen snake
Its pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew
"Poor thing!" she cried. "I'll take you in and I'll take care of you."
(Chorus)
Take me in oh tender woman, take me in for heaven's sake
Take me in tender woman......sssssssighed the snake
She wrapped him up all cozy, in a coveture of silk
And laid him by the fireside with some honey and some milk
She hurried home from work that day and soon as she arrived
She found that snake she'd taken in so soon had been revived
(Chorus)
............................she kissed and held him tight
but instead of saying thanks that snake gave her a vicious bite
"You bit me!" cried the woman...."and there ain't no reason why!
You know you're far too poisonous and now I'm gonna die!"
"Oh shut up, silly woman...." said that reptile with a grin
"You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in"
(Chorus)
What is Tom Jones Height and weight?
5'10" wt.160lbs. Nonsense. I saw him at Heathrow a few years back, my wife was talking to him. She was 5' 3" at max and he was roughly the same height including hair!. I always had thought he was tall but no....
Did Tom Jones ever have anything to do with Burger King?
In 1981, Tom Jones and his manager Gordon Mills acquired the UK franchise of the American chain Burger King. Source: Daily Express, 11/5/1981
Was Allan Jones Film Star of the 30's the father of Tom Jones Welsh Singer?
Jack Jones is the son of Allan Jones. But they're all Welsh.
Is there a drink called the Tom Jones?
yes, Egg Nog, with Jamaican Rum and a pinch of Coconut Juice and a pinch of lime
Jones himself appears in the late 70's made for TV movie Pleasure Cove, playing a small role. He also guest starred as a character in an epidode of Fantasy Island. Other TV roles included playing himself in episodes of Fresh Prince Of Bel Air and The Simpsons in the mid 90's.
He appears as himself, in fairly large role, in the horror movie spoof Mar Attacks! in 1995. In the film, Jones leads a disparate group of people to safety, flying an airplane no less, after the martians attack Las Vegas. In one of the funnier scenes in the film, Jones does not yet realize martians have attacked and is puzzled as to why concert goers are fleeing his show. He then turns around and sees a group of armed aliens who had joined him onstage, ironically mimicking his classic dance moves while he sang "It's Not Unusual".
Jones was performing in nightclubs and bars in the late 50's and early 60's while working a variety of day jobs that included door to door salesman and brick laying. Gordon Mills, formerly of the vocal group The Viscounts, heard Jones at a club and was impressed. Mills was looking to get into the management side and out of the performing side of the music industry. Mills tried for awhile to secure a record deal for Jones and had little luck, a couple of singles released in 1964 made no impact in the US or UK.
By 1964 Mills did get Jones work as a "session singer", someone who would sing songs written for other performers, allowing the songwriters and managers to play these demo records to the intended performer to show them how good the song was in the hope they would agree to record it. One of those songs was "It's Not Unusual", which Mills wrote and originally intended for Sandi Shaw to sing. Shaw, very popular in the UK, turned it down. Jones loved the song and persuaded a reluctant Mills to let him record it for himself.
Tweaking the arrangement to add the horn section and electric guitar solo, London Records issued the single in early 1965 (Parrot Records in the US). It hit No. 1 on the UK charts that spring, hitting the US Top 10 two months later.
Jones had multiple minor hits through 1965-66, although the movie theme "Whats New Pussycat ?" would be a Top 5 hit for him in the US during the summer of 1965. Mills became worried that Jones performing style and image were better suited to a more mature audience, 25 and up, and not the teenagers "Pussycat" and "Unusual" were aimed at. Mills remade Jones image from a long haired jeans clad rocker into a suit and tie or tuxedo clad balladeer, singing more middle of the road material. The switch worked instantly in the UK where Jones immediately became a fixture in the Top 10. It worked slower in the states, although Jones found considerable success in the US with the singles "Green, Green Grass Of Home" in 1967 and "Delilah" in 1968.
Live on stage, Jones mixed the middle of the road pop ballads with an ecclectic range of music. Jones concerts in the late 60's and early 70's would see him mixing Broadway Show Tunes and Frank Sinatra tributes with cover versions of R&B music from the likes of Wilson Pickett and Stevie Wonder alongside 50's rock and roll hits by Little Richard. It made live albums like Tom Jones Live In Las Vegas in 1969 Top 10 hits and million sellers while establishing a reputation as a more versatile performer than other pop singers of the time, enhancing his appeal. Jones sugestive hip swiveling dance moves and flirtatious nature with females in the audience added to his popularity, making him an iconic sex symbol of the time and making his live concerts among the hottest tickets in town, his US Tours in 1969 and 1970 breaking numerous box office records.
His TV Variety Show This Is Tom Jones enhanced all aspects of his image, romantic balladeer, sex symbol ladies man, rock star, and showcased his musical versatility as he shared the stage with an unusual array of stars including Tony Bennett, Johnny Cash, Janis Joplin, Sammy Davis JR, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Joe Cocker and others, all of which he successfully performed on stage with during each epidode.
That versatility enabled Jones, at least at his height in popularity, to maintain a decent following among men as well as ladies. Jones actually won Playboy Magazine's annual readers poll for Best Male Vocalist in 1969 and finished third in 1970.
Jones maintained a loyal following of fans years after the hits records stopped and the sex symbol stage antics grew old but has remained popular through his willingness to work with new, younger performers, as well as continuing the trend from his early days of performing a wide array of musical styles, although he still mixes in plenty of his own hit singles in his live show for die hard fans.
What song did Tom Jones perform with the art of noise?
"Kiss", that was originally written by Prince.
What Delilah by Tom Jones is about?
Written by Les Reed and Barry Mason, "Delilah" is about a man who visits his female paramour (unclear of they are dating or married) but spies her in the arms of another man through a window outside ("I saw the flickering shadows of love on her blinds" as the lyric goes).
Jealous, the male character (Jones) waits for the other man to leave to confront Delilah, only to be taunted and ridiculed by her, causing him to fly into a jealous rage and stab her to death on her doorstep ("She stood there laughing, I felt the knife in my hand, and she laughed no more").
In the end, Jones' character pleads for forgiveness while waits for the police to arrest him and the sond ends ("So before they come to break down the door, forgive me Delilah I just couldn't any more").
Over the years, Jones has told the story of when he debuted the song in the US, performing it on one of his last Ed Sullivan Show appearances in March 1968. Censors asked him to change the lyric "At break of day as that man drove away I was waiting" to something along the lines of "At break of day as dark went away I was waiting" - they felt the original lyric implied that this other man had spent the night at Delilah's home, which it did, and that was too improper for network TV, even in 1968, at least on Ed Sullivan. Jones agreed, although he argued the point that the entire song is about a man who stalks and kills his unfaithful girlfriend, all of which apparently is OK as long as the unfaithful girlfriend doesn't have have anyone stay overnight.
What was the name of the tom jones' song about a woman and a reptile?
Song was "the Snake". But when? I don't see it in discographies. This song was popularized in the 1960's R&B era by prolific singer and songwriter, Al Wilson who recently died (April, 2008). A brief bio/obit of his career can be viewed at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/al-wilson-expressive-singer-of-the-snake-814697.html Though Wilson initially brought a 1960's resurgent notice to the song and his, Wilson's, arrangement of it, it was also rendered by other soul, blues and R&B artist's and came to its most publicized in the sphere general audiences via top-40 radio air-play of the Tom Jones version of the reincarnate original that was scribed by jazz and blues empresario, Oscar Brown, Jr.
