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Tom Jones

lines on the record: 55
first: 2010-09-26
most recent: 2010-09-26
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“The only person that I sang with that I felt was projecting more than I was was Aretha Franklin. Stand next to this woman And for her to sing, maybe it's similar to when somebody stands next to me, maybe, I don't know, because you know, I can't.”
2010-09-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Tom Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A whole lot of shaking going on. Well, when Elvis Presley came on the scene, Everybody was saying, you know, this is this white man that sounds like a black man. He's a freak. And I said, Well, he can't be the only white person that's been affected by black music in the southern states. And then one day I was walking through Pont de Priet with some of my friends, my hometown, and Jerry De Lewis, a whole lot of shaking was coming over the speaker from the record shop. When I heard Jerry Lee Lewis with that piano, you know, with a whole lot of shaking going on. I mean, good God, to me that was it. I mean, I loved that record. And it was a white man singing boogie woogie. Music, really, that he had heard black people play.”
2010-09-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Tom Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I tried to pick songs that influenced me and songs that I used to sing myself And songs that I like the sound of very much, said”
2010-09-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Tom Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How old would you have been? Oh, as far back as I can remember, I am very young four, five, somewhere like that, and I would get up in the window and pull the grapes over. My mother would be cleaning. And I say, Ma, introduce me. She said, I'm busy. I've got to get on with the housework. She said, just sing. You know, if you want to sing, sing. No, no, I can't. Not until you introduce me. I remember jumping out of the window after my mother would introduce me, you know, ladies and gentlemen, Tommy Woodward, because that's my Woodward is my last name. And I would just jump out of the kitchen floor and start singing whatever it was. I mean, I'd love to sing. My voice drives me. It tells me that I have to do it.”
2010-09-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Tom Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, maybe they were built up. Maybe I realized that I had to look after them. Or maybe that two years that I was in bed it could have because I couldn't sing for two years they told me not to sing.”
2010-09-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Tom Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source