Saturday, March 26, 2022

Tom Jones - This Is Tom Jones, Volume 4 (1969-1970)

Here's another album based on the TV show hosted by Tom Jones, "This Is Tom Jones." It's the fourth of six such albums.

As usual, there are lots of duets with big names. On this album, the duets are with: Little Richard, Glen Campbell, Janis Joplin, the Rascals, Dusty Springfield, and Joe Cocker. Probably the most notable was the duet with Joplin. She died so young, that I think this is the only major duet she did on TV.

There's not much else to say. As with the rest of the series, all the songs here are officially unreleased. All the shows are from the "This Is Tom Jones" show with the exception of "Proud Mary," which is from another TV show. But I slotted it in chronologically with the others. Also like the rest of the series, the sound quality is pretty good overall, but variable. Some of the songs come from a DVD source and sound great, while others come from YouTube videos, and are more of a mixed bag.

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 Don't Fight It (Tom Jones)
02 I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (Tom Jones)
03 Jenny, Jenny - Rip It Up (Tom Jones & Little Richard)
04 Proud Mary (Tom Jones)
05 You Came a Long Way from St. Louis (Tom Jones & Glen Campbell)
06 Land of 1000 Dances (Tom Jones)
07 Raise Your Hand (Tom Jones & Janis Joplin)
08 In the Midnight Hour (Tom Jones & the Rascals)
09 Bony Maronie (Tom Jones)
10 I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (Tom Jones & Dusty Springfield)
11 Help Yourself (Tom Jones)
12 My Funny Valentine (Tom Jones)
13 Delta Lady (Tom Jones & Joe Cocker)
14 We Can Work It Out (Tom Jones)
15 She Loves Me (Tom Jones)

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As with the covers of the other albums in this series, I thought it would be more interesting to show Jones during one of the duets instead of him alone. Since the duet with Joplin is the most celebrated one here, I used a photo from that.

2 comments:

  1. Each time you post these, my appreciation for Tom Jones grows. Thanks so much.

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  2. I concur, I love these four volumes.

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