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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
Charlie Rich - The Many New Sides of Charlie Rich
'Mohair Sam' was one of the tracks on it - I recorded it on my first album because of hearing him do it. But I liked him before that - 'Lonely Weekends' was the first one I heard him sing. Heard it on the radio, on the BBC - some people had condemned the BBC because they didn't play enough of this or enough of that but at least you would get a smidgen of things coming through. I'd be getting records then from Spillers in Cardiff, but there was a shop in Pontypridd which was more local, called Freddy Feys, and I would get a lot of stuff in there. On another album later on, I did the song that was on The Many New Sides... called 'Field of Yellow Daisies' that his wife wrote, which I learned later - when I met him, he said “Thanks for recording that."
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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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