Archive for December, 2007
This is Tom Jones Volume 2: Legendary Performers is to be released February 12th in USA. The follow up to This is Tom Jones Volume One will be released by Timelife on February 12th 2008 and will feature Sammy Davis Jnr, Liza Minnelli, Jerry Lee Lewis and Tony Bennett among others. This will be a [...]
I totally expected this DVD collection from Tom Jones’ TV variety series to be completely lame … boy, was I wrong! Yes, the collection has its hokey moments and it’s pretty hilarious to watch the little old ladies soiling themselves every time Tom gyrates, but the show is pure genius. Tom’s booking agent for the [...]
Tom Jones is to sing the British national anthem at the Hatton vs. Mayweather fight on Sat Dec 8 from the MGM in Las Vegas. Team Hatton made the request and Sir Tom is happy to comply and help make a small contribution to what is sure to be one of the great sporting [...]
It’s a Hot Holiday. Christmas had special meaning for Tom Jones, 28-year-old Welsh superstar and host of his own weekly variety show This Is Tom Jones, and the 1969 and 1970 holiday programs compiled on this DVD reflect his love for this festive season. As usual, Tom throws a terrific party that’s brassy, classy and [...]
Back in 1968, when Tom Jones began a series of shows at the Copacabana in New York, crazed female fans started throwing their undergarments on stage. Nearly 40 years later, the embarrassing tradition continues, as evidenced throughout a packed gig at Pechanga on Friday night. Backed by a proficient 11-piece band (including horn section), the [...]
For more than four decades the man and myth, Tom Jones, has been on the scene with such consistency we might think of him as a fixed cultural object. In fact, though, there are at least two distinct Tom Jones personae, as the stocky Welshman demonstrated at a return engagement to Chumash Casino Resort on [...]
“This Is Tom Jones isn’t just some retro cheap thrill, though, or an exercise in nostalgia. It’s a true time trip, transporting us back to viscerally feel the beat of a landmark era.” – Newsday 6/26/07
“It’s not unusual to be wowed. Repeatedly.” – Newsday 6/26/07
“Hugely entertaining and some of the musical performances [...]
There’s evidence now on DVD shelves that, before the strong-voiced Jones was a swoon-inducing showroom star, this Welsh coal miner’s son could kick out the jams with the best of them. Make that the best of the best. Aretha Franklin. Janis Joplin. Joe Cocker. Stevie Wonder. “This Is Tom Jones: Rock ‘n’ Roll Legends” spotlights [...]
Lily Allen kicked off the celebration, Prince Harry kicked off the Concert for Diana with the iconic words “Hello Wembley!” He and Prince William organised the event to celebrate the life of their mother, Princess Diana, on what would have been her 46th birthday. Weeks of wet weather cleared on cue over the new stadium, [...]
TV ON DVD: Too much Tom Jones is a good thing
Interview with Paul Brownstein, American TV historian and expert archivist/ producer of this series for Time Life.
“There was just too much great stuff”. That’s what ace DVD producer Paul Brownstein found when he started mining the archives of the vintage 2-inch videotapes of “This Is [...]
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