agedaudio.com Blog » Tom Jones http://agedaudio.com/blog keeping old sounds young Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:33:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Tom Jones and Sly Stone – ‘Everyday People’ http://agedaudio.com/blog/2006/10/10/tom-jones-and-sly-stone-everyday-people/ http://agedaudio.com/blog/2006/10/10/tom-jones-and-sly-stone-everyday-people/#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:53:49 +0000 Administrator http://agedaudio.com/blog/2006/10/10/tom-jones-and-sly-stone-everyday-people/ Its ‘Tom Jones Tuesday’ here in Aged Audio land.

Something I realize about Tom Jones is while people pigeonhole him as a lounge singer, throughout his career he really wanted to get his rock out, and this performance from 1976 on The Midnight Special shows another aspect of this ambition.

I love how Sly Stone starts impersonating Tom’s accent while TJ introduces him and we even get an exclamation of ‘nigga please’ before Chris Rock made it famous.

Dig Sly and Tom in a match made in heaven – at Midnight.

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In 1963 he became the frontman for a band called Tommy Scott and the Senators. Clad all in black leather, Tom soon gained a reputation in the South Wales area. The Senators were still unheard of in London.

After some tracks were laid down, producers noted he was the centerpiece of the group so they got him a solo contract and changed his name Tom Jones (yes, after the book). Record companies were finding his style and delivery to be too abrasive and raw. Tom’s vocals were considered to be too raucous, and he moved like Elvis. But eventually, Decca Records let Jones record his first single, Chills And Fever in late 1964. The single didn’t chart, but the follow-up, It’s Not Unusual, was an instant smash hit, released in early 1965. The rest is history.

Maybe I should do a Tom Jones post every Tuesday and call it, what else, Tom Jones Tuesday!

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