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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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It was on the radio, I was just getting it, I was thinking, 'Fuck, what is that? Who is that?', it was so different. I would say 'Black, Brown and White' is my favourite song. It was played on BBC radio, and at the time - he said it himself - that he couldn't record it in America, so I think he recorded it in France, because they said it's too controversial. Even black friends of his said, 'Don't you stir up the shit here! We could get repercussions.' But I thought he put it... He was just stating a fact. He wasn't saying 'you white bastards' or 'the whites won't let us', he wasn't saying anything like that. It's just 'me and a man was working side by side, this is what it meant, they were paying him a dollar an hour and they were paying him 50 cents'. You know, he said, 'If you're white, you're alright, if you're brown stick around, but if you're black, get back.' Which I thought was tremendous.
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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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