Album: Tom Jones Country (1981)
MVC Rating: 3.5/$
Another day, another singer named Jones. As in Tom Jones.
First off this isn’t real country music. Secondly, is this the real Tom Jones?
On record it sounds like Tom Jones and his powerful voice is in fine form. But the cover with Jones wearing a cowboy hat looks an awful lot like Will Ferrell. No? Take a look side-by-side look of both gentlemen in hats:
The left is as it says, Will Ferrell, the right is Jones.
If you are looking for real country music sung by a man named Jones, don’t choose Tom, choose George. (George and Tammy Wynette are reviewed on my previous post.)
Now we transition from George Jones to Tom Jones and watch this smooth segue as I post a video of Tom Jones singing with Janis Joplin — who happens to be next in the myvinylcountdown.com of my 678 vinyl records.
Whenever I hear Tom Jones I recall my mother going to a bridal shower for a young girl of 18. It was back in 1965.and my mother was in her mid 50’s. When my mother got home, she reported, “We didn’t play any of the usual shower games. We watched Tom Jones on TV for a whole hour”.
Ha, he was quite the heartthrob — still probably is in his older age. Back in the 70s my grandmother RIP once pointed to the television when Tom Jones was on it and said ‘We don’t like him, We like Englebert Humperdink.”