Summary: In 1974, Jones moved to the United States, buying the mansion formerly belonging to Dean Martin in Bel-Air, Los Angeles.
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Thomas Jones Woodward OBE
Description: Vocalist, Welsh
Known For: “Its Not Unusual” (1965), Jones signature song
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Easy Listening, Rock, Soul
Location: United Kingdom
Date Born: 7th June 1940
Location Born: Pontypridd, United Kingdom
CONTACT DETAILS
Web Site: http://www.tomjones.com
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Tom Jones OBE
A Welsh pop music singer particularly noted for his powerful voice.
After working in Wales for sometime was spotted by His manager to be the late Gordon Mills.
Began in London,1964 doing a demo song “It’s not unusual” for singer Sandy Shaw.
He ended up releasing it himself knowing full well it was going to be a smash hit.
Tom Jones rose to fame in the mid-1960s, with an exuberant live act that included wearing tight breeches and billowing shirts, in an Edwardian style popular among his peers at the time.
In 1963 he became the frontman for Tommy Scott and The Senators, a local beat group.
Unknown in London. In 1964 they laid down seven tracks with maverick “Telstar” producer Joe Meek, and took them to various labels in an attempt to get a record deal, with no success.
The group returned to South Wales and continued to play gigs at dance halls and working men’s clubs.
One night, at the Top Hat in Cwmtillery, Jones was spotted by Gordon Mills, a London-based manager originally from South Wales. Mills became Jones’ manager, and took the young singer to London.
He also renamed him “Tom Jones,” an ingenious moniker that not only linked the singer to the image of the title character – a good-looking, low-born stud – portrayed in Tony Richardson’s film of Fielding’s Tom Jones.
Decca rekindled their early interest, and Jones recorded his first single, “Chills And Fever” in late 1964.
The single didn’t chart, but the follow-up, “It’s Not Unusual,” (co-written by Les Reed), was an instant hit, released in early 1965. The BBC initially refused to play it, but an offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline, picked it up.
In the same year, Jones sang the theme song to the James Bond film Thunderball. Jones was awarded the Grammy Award for Best New Artist for 1965.
In 1967 he performed for the first time in Las Vegas, at the Flamingo. In 1968, starting at New York’s Copacabana night club, women would swoon and scream, and some would throw their knickers on stage.
Soon after, he began to play Las Vegas and began recording less, choosing to concentrate on his lucrative club performances.
Jones and his idol Elvis Presley, met in 1965 at the Paramount stage, when Elvis was filming “Paradise Hawaiian Style”; after that, they became good friends, spending more and more time together in Las Vegas, their friendship enduring until Presley’s death in 1977.
On July 29, 1986, Gordon Mills, Jones’ long-time manager, died of cancer.
Jones’ son Mark became the singer’s manager.
In 2001 he toured throughout the Middle East and Europe.
In 2007, he signed to New York-based independent label S-Curve, owned by music executive Steve Greenberg.
The singer was awarded an OBE in 1999 and a Knight Bachelor in the 2006 New Years Honours list for his services to music and was subsequently knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, London on 29 March 2006.
Hits include.
It’s Not Unusual
What’s New Pussycat
Green Green Grass Of Home
Delilah
Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings
I’ll Never Fall In Love Again
I’m Coming Home
Help Yourself
Love Me Tonight
She’s A Lady
Thunderball
Without Love
Daughter Of Darkness
If I Only Knew
Till
The Young Mexican Puppeteer
Boy From Nowhere
Kiss
Burning Down The House
Baby It’s Cold Outside
Mama Told Me Not To Come
Sex Bomb
Full Monty Medley
Further information can be obtained at the web sites listed on the Links button above
WORKS
Hits include.
It’s Not Unusual
What’s New Pussycat
Green Green Grass Of Home
Delilah
Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings
I’ll Never Fall In Love Again
I’m Coming Home
Help Yourself
Love Me Tonight
She’s A Lady
Thunderball
Without Love
Daughter Of Darkness
If I Only Knew
Till
The Young Mexican Puppeteer
Boy From Nowhere
Kiss
Burning Down The House
Baby It’s Cold Outside
Mama Told Me Not To Come
Sex Bomb
Full Monty Medley
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