It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones - FACTS!

[editor]

The song was co-written by Tom Jones' manager. Fact!
Elton John plays on the single. Fact!
Jimmy Page might play on it. Disputed fact!
The fabulously named Vic Flick plays on it - he of the mighty guitar riff in the "James Bond Theme"

Marvin Gaye covered the song:



It's Not Unusual - Wikipedia

 

[Ground Elder]

As did the Dells


and many others, but I think the Dells got in first. When the Tom Jones was first released in the US it was initially played heavily on black stations until they realised he was white.

 

[weltweit]

Is this some bigging up of Welsh singing stars I see here?

 

[Steel Icarus]

Tom Jones recorded this in one take, during which his chest hair grew four inches.

 

[alsoknownas]

 

[editor]

Is this some bigging up of Welsh singing stars I see here?

Just the one. And it is a cracking tune and performance.

 

[a_chap]

And in the early 1970s my parents nearly bought Tom Jones' parents' house. Fact!

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Another fact is that I had a crush on Tom Jones when I was 2 or 3 years old. Apparently, according to several people, I’d go into a kind of trance when he came on the telly or the radio. My mother tells me I’d run to the telly and try to feed him grapes or whatever I was eating at the time, squidging them onto his telly face.

 

[Ming]

I’d heard about the Jimmy Page rumour. Does anyone want me to do the joke or have we all heard it?

 

[Sprocket.]

Still one of the most magnificent pop songs of all time.

 

[krtek a houby]

Used to great effect in Mr Jolly Lives Next Door, iirc

 

[Baronage-Phase]

And what a first line?
Who'd have thought a song would come from that?

 

[Supine]

Love it

Let's not mention his cover of Kiss by Prince

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Love it

Let's not mention his cover of Kiss by Prince

Think I better dance now.....

 

[petee]

 

[Baronage-Phase]

That's dreadful.....way too much echo reverb..

 

[High Voltage]

42 seconds was all I could manage of that

 

[JuanTwoThree]

My favourite story about Tom Jones is that when he tried to find a house near his family after his early success he couldn't find one that was nearly expensive enough.

My second story, which I can't find anywhere, is of a singer duetting with him who said that she could feel warmth emanating from him like from a heater and that when he turned to sing in her direction the power of his lungs ruffled her hair. Nina Persson perhaps.

ETA My new favourite story, which came to my attention when looking for anything about the two above, is that his chest hair was insured for 7 million quid. He denied it.

 

[Steel Icarus]

His top D note can melt steel beams

 

[a_chap]

And in the early 1970s my parents nearly bought Tom Jones' parents' house. Fact!

Aaaand a slight correction.

Having spoken to my sister this morning it turns out that my parents nearly bought Englebert Humperdinck's parent's house.

I should have realised that something wasn't quite right about my Tom Jones' parent's claim as my parents lived in Leicester, not Glamorgan...

 

[tim]

Aaaand a slight correction.

Having spoken to my sister this morning it turns out that my parents nearly bought Englebert Humperdinck's parent's house.

I should have realised that something wasn't quite right about my Tom Jones' parent's claim as my parents lived in Leicester, not Glamorgan...

They used to be the same person.

 

[Favelado]

Love it

Let's not mention his cover of Kiss by Prince

Or being mates with Jimmy Savile.

 

[Ming]

A man went to the doctor with a strange complaint.

"Well it's like this Doc, when I drive to work in the morning through the country lanes I start to sing 'The green green grass of home'. If I see a cat then it's 'What's new, pussy cat?'. It's so embarrassing, even when I'm asleep and dreaming, I still keep singing. Last night, it was 'Delilah', and my wife was not amused!"

"Yes, it would appear that you have the early symptoms of Tom Jones syndrome."

"Well I've never heard of that, is it common?" asked the man.

"It's not unusual," replied the doctor.

 

[editor]

New facts!

Sir Tom Jones becomes oldest man to top UK album chart

The Welshman bags his fourth number one LP, and beats Bob Dylan's chart record along the way.

www.bbc.co.uk