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"Shit, That Sounds Tremendous!" Tom Jones On His 13 Favourite Albums
"Shit, That Sounds Tremendous!" Tom Jones On His 13 Favourite Albums
Laurie Tuffrey
, May 17th, 2012 05:33
With his new album, Spirit In The Room, on the way, Sir Tom Jones reflects on his favourite LPs and tells Laurie Tuffrey about his friends Elvis, Aretha and Stevie
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Great songs. I had it on 8-track in my car. I heard 'Fingertips' first, and I thought "Shit! Who's playing harmonica on that for a start off?" So those Motown records were happy records, great for dancing and parties and things. But then it got deeper, more personal, which is why I picked that record. I think people should try things and if you have something to say, something in you, then do it. That can happen in different times of your life, and I think for him, he had that to prove - you know he had done the jolly records, and wanted to get deep. And he did.
Favourite song would be 'Blame It On The Sun'. It was different, "but my heart blames it on me" - blame it on this, blame it on that, but at the end of that day, my heart blames it on me. I love clever lyrics... and its a simple story but the way he put it together was very clever.
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Tony
May 17, 2012 2:04pm
May 17, 2012 2:04pm
Time to hit the download shop...you know a guy like TJ has some classy taste in music.
Ron Pile
May 17, 2012 5:05pm
May 17, 2012 5:05pm
He really does like the word tremendous doesn't he?
L.N.Barello
May 17, 2012 8:14pm
May 17, 2012 8:14pm
Love how he says the word,'tremendous'.Any Etta James,Tom? I would love to hear u sing the song 'Tenderly' and R.Kellys,'When A Woman Loves'. Well, anything u sing sound fucking great!!
Juan
May 18, 2012 8:38am
May 18, 2012 8:38am
"I've never taken any drugs"....."the only thing I took was purple hearts".
So you did take drugs Tom. Stop being a wally.
Nice list though, kind of what I expected.
TheStrobe
May 23, 2012 1:53pm
May 23, 2012 1:53pm
a fairly predictable line-up of big voices and old school atists. confirmed what i had thought, Tom Jones is not relevant, and is looking back way too much.
Dan
Jun 7, 2012 6:56pm
Jun 7, 2012 6:56pm
Interesting that the Little Richard album is in fact one of Richard's mid-60's re-recordings of his Specialty hits. Every label that he signed with after his heyday had him re-cut his classics (with various degrees of quality). That being said, this Okeh album is considered to be the best of these re-recordings - it was, according to an ancient review in Rolling Stone, recorded live in a studio before an audience, which accounts for the great "atmosphere". In truth, Okeh and (slightly earlier) Vee Jay both did pretty well in moving Richard into the contemporary soul direction when they weren't focusing on re-cutting the hits - "I Don't Know What You Got" (with Jimi Hendrix on guitar and the song's writer Don Covay singing on the session) is a true soul classic on Vee Jay, as are "Get Down With It" and "I Don't Want To Discuss It" on Okeh.
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May 17, 2012 12:50pm
Yummy..... and Yes Please......!!
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