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Tom Jones
Tom Jones was first kown as Tommy Woodward in the early 1960’s when fronting for “The Senators”, a band in South Wales, U.K. Now, he is Sir Thomas Jones Woodward, O.B.E.
The late 1960’s were very, very good to Tome Jones:
- - In 1965 he had his first top single with “It’s Not Unusual.” Much like Elvis, his moves were considered too provocative for early television.
- - It was in that same year that Tom Jones also released the musical theme to the James Bond movie, Thunderball.
- - If that were not enough, he was awarded the Grammy Award for Best New Artist for the same year.
- - This was followed with several years of performing in Las Vegas and New York afterwards was then successful in TV called This is Tom Jones from 1967 through 1971.
After this, his career continued but not at the same rate it had. It wasn’t until 1999 that his career took off again with a record, “Reload,” of duets with (more…)
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