REMINISCING ... TOM JONES

REMINISCING ... TOM JONES

Tom Jones OBE - a Welsh singer. Since 1965, Jones has sold over 100 million records. "It's Not Unusual," 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. Its orchestrated arrangement, coupled with Jones' energetic delivery, proved infectious, and by March the song reached number one in the UK and the top ten in America. 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 1966 Jones' popularity began to slip somewhat with the singer's image redesigned into a more respectable, mature, tuxedoed crooner.