Tom Jones is the man.







She's a Lady

Deliah

It's Not Unusual

Kiss (with Art of Noise)

Sex Bomb

That is all.

You may return to your regularly scheduled programming. But first post a love you have for something or someone as goofy as my love for Tom Jones.

Tom Jones made the otherwise unlistenable Kiss into a great song.

And in the 70's a team of scientists studying his sideburns came up with the idea for velcro.

Dominic - Is concerned parent your father?

I have no idea who Tom Jones is, but that first album cover may be the grossest thing I've ever seen.

ummmmmmm best thread ever. saw him my first trip to vegas/ threw my panties at his ass!!!

wat's new pussy cat, amirite?

haha

Yeah, how did that one go missing?

I wanted to feature the more serious music of his oeuvre.

There's just something about "oeuvre" and Tom Jones that's precious.

How did you miss "Help Yourself".

Tom Jones was a fairly significant part of the sound track of my childhood (maternal record ownership, not personal), up there with Sarah Vaughn, Stevie Wonder, Cat Stevens, Count Basie the Bee Gees and other lesser luminaries. I never understood how someone could dress like Liberace and appeal to women, but it appears that the attraction was genuine.

I imagine a Richard Harris thread can't be far behind.

Jack Sheldon was superb as a trumpet player, but I get a kick out of his singing. One worth having in your collection:


http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Sheldon-Sings/dp/B000008R9X

Tom Jones had a TV variety show that aired from 1969 to 1971. It was fun to watch if for nothing else than to see the women go crazy in the auidence. Tom Jones is a good entertanier and singer.

http://www.tv.com/this-is-tom-jones/...ctures;image;0

If you have an appreciation thread for Tom Jones then you should start one for Joe Cocker also.

-Zeno

Tom Jones Rocks BA BY!!!!!

Seriously, Great stuff!!!!

Joe at Woodstock: A little Help From My Friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM

He puts Tom Jones to shame.


-Zeno

no one puts Tom Jones to shame. Chuck Norris bows down to Tom Jones.

I rest my case.

Mother ****er saved the human race in Mars Attacks with Jim Brown.

Also It's so unusual is one of my 3 karaoke songs

Tom Jones = badass

From memory, here's a story I heard Tom tell when interviewed on some show and talking about his appearance at The Apollo Theater back when nobody knew who he was.

The place usually hosts all black performers and has a more or less all black audience. That audience is famous for ridiculously harsh, keepin' it real but also keepin' it mean heckling and booing of anybody who doesn't bring the best A game they could ever dream of to the stage, and they will actually have a guy dance out with a long stage hook and drag people out in the middle of their routines and songs if the audience booing ramps up -- sometimes not much either. It's a venue that to say the least takes balls.

Tom relates that after a series of performers came on, he was announced and came on and there was a big hush over the crowd because usually white people didn't come there, and maybe weren't really welcome there either. And then there was some booing too, before he even started his set. Who the hell was this white guy? Then he started singing, and people hushed again. Puzzlement seemed to flow through the crowd -- Tom said the polite equivalent of it looking like people were saying, first, Who the heck is this white guy showing up here, then How the heck can a white guy sound like that, and then Damn this boy is great! They stood up in their seats and were cheering like crazy for him all through his set, and gaving him a big standing ovation. They went completely nuts over this Welshman who came from out of nowhere to blow them away with how much soul he had, and he said it was one of the best experiences and biggest compliments of his life.

Perhaps it is an age thing, but who is this Tom Jones that you speak of?

And seriously, that man in the first pic Dom posted need to wax his chest hair pronto!

These are men. It is not an old wives' tale. You may have heard of them. The rumors are true.

Tom Jones does not need to to do anything. He is Tom Jones. Besides, a real man does not wax anything unless he's an Olympic swimmer.

Okay, about 98% irrelevant, but he's been sorta-semi-influential in some ways.

Any of you (I'm looking at you, Dominic) ever hear The Wedding Present's cover of "It's Not Unusual"? First released on "Bizarro", which is where "Kennedy" and "Brassneck" came from...

nope, but if it was inspired by Tom Jones, it must be awesome.

I beg to disagree. There are quite a few men who are willing to wax and ensure good male grooming, and I think it's about damn time.