History Music / TomJones

* ImageSong: The title song to the JamesBond film ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' describes Bond perfectly.

* IncrediblyLongNote: There is a debunked urban legend regarding his recording of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYW2UgSJq8 theme song]] for the JamesBond film ''{{Thunderball}}'' that says he held the last note so long that he passed out. Not quite, but it is an amazingly long note.

* GlassShatteringSound / MakeMeWantToShout: Jones proves he could shatter a glass with just his voice on one episode of the ''Dinah Shore Show''. He has also been known to break ''microphones'' with the sheer power of his voice.

* EarWorm: Several of his songs qualify. "What's New, Pussycat" is the most glaring example.
** The theme for ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'': "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpsxfEU-4Is Duck Dooooooodgers of the 24th and one half centurrrryyy...]]"

* PoorMansSubstitute: Some music critics have dismissed Jones as a "poor man's Elvis" and a "poor man's Frank Sinatra". Of course, in UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}, [[ElvisPresley Elvis]] is considered a poor man's Music/TomJones. No, seriously.

* The theme for ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'': "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpsxfEU-4Is Duck Dooooooodgers of the 24th and one half centurrrryyy...]]"

* OneWomanSong: "Delilah"

** The album Reload also had several cover songs on it.
* GlassShatteringSound: Jones proves he could shatter a glass with just his voice on one episode of the ''Dinah Shore Show''. He has also been known to break ''microphones'' with the sheer power of his voice.

* SourceMusic: In ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Music/TomJones voices a singer who croons to Emperor Kuzko while Kuzko dances along. The animated singer looks remarkably like the real Jones, in fact. Funnily enough, he took the role after [[ThePolice Sting]] turned it down, saying he was too old to make it work.

* SourceMusic: In ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Music/TomJones voices a singer who croons to Emperor Kuzko while Kuzko dances along. The animated singer looks remarkably like the real Jones, in fact.

* PoorMansSubstitute: Some music critics have dismissed Jones as a "poor man's Elvis" and a "poor man's Frank Sinatra". Of course, in UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}), [[ElvisPresley Elvis]] is considered a poor man's Music/TomJones. No, seriously.

Since the 1960s, Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE (born 7 June 1940 in Pontypridd, South UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}), better known by his stage name "Tom Jones"... or these days, "Sir Tom Jones" , is a Welsh singer. He became one of the most popular vocalists to emerge from the British Invasion has sung nearly every form of popular music (pop, rock, R&B, punk, show tunes, country, club music, techno, soul, gospel, blues, ''and'' rap) and sold over 100 million records. He has almost forty Top 40 hits to his name, including "It's Not Unusual", "What's New Pussycat", "Delilah", "The Green Grass of Home", "Kiss" (a cover of the {{Prince}} classic that actually outsold the original), "Burning Love" (a cover of the ElvisPresley classic), "Sex Bomb", and the song that has become his signature, "She's a Lady".

Jones has a powerful, bluesy voice that is reminiscent of ElvisPresley (one of Jones' personal friends, as it turns out). His voice is versatile enough, however, to handle pretty much any type of music he decides to apply it to. He's a legendary {{Pornomancer}} whose singing would regularly cause women to throw articles of clothing at him while he was onstage.

Between 1980 and 1982, he had a variety series on the BBC called ''The Tom Jones Show''. These days, when he's not out there rocking the stage at age 72 (he still plays about a hundred shows a year), he's a coach on the British version of ''Series/TheVoice'' (during the first season of which he took contestant Leanne Mitchell to the championship). The other coaches apparently consider him to be "the man to beat" on the show because of his vast experience and know how.

Despite his own admitted "horde of infidelities" (including an illegitimate son, whom he barely acknowledges), Jones has been married to the same woman, his wife Melinda, since 1957. The couple have one son, Mark, and carefully do not mention Tom's other son. They live in Los Angeles, but regularly shuttle back and forth to London.

* Pornomancer: As noted, even now when he's in his 70s, he can sing women out of their clothing whenever he damned well wants to.

* IncrediblyLongNote: There is a debunked urban legend regarding his recording of the theme song for the JamesBond film ''{{Thunderball}}'' that says he held the last note so long that he passed out. Not quite, but it is an amazingly long note.

* ProperLady: The song "She's a Lady" seems to be about this female archetypal character. She'S got style, she's got grace, she knows her place, she's never in the way, she has always something nice to say... That little lady has got all it takes to make her man happy.

* ProperLady: The song seems to be about this female archetypal character. She'S got style, she's got grace, she knows her place, she's never in the way, she has always something nice to say... That little lady has got all it takes to make her man happy.

-->''"Music is great. It all depends on what mood you're in... what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music. If you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow. It all depends on the mood."''
-->--Sir Tom Jones, OBE

Since the 1960s, Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE (born 7 June 1940 in Pontypridd, South Wales), better known by his stage name "Tom Jones"... or these days, "Sir Tom Jones" , is a Welsh singer. He became one of the most popular vocalists to emerge from the British Invasion has sung nearly every form of popular music (pop, rock, R&B, punk, show tunes, country, club music, techno, soul, gospel, blues, ''and'' rap) and sold over 100 million records. He has almost forty Top 40 hits to his name, including "It's Not Unusual", "What's New Pussycat", "Delilah", "The Green Grass of Home", "Kiss" (a cover of the {{Prince}} classic that actually outsold the original), "Burning Love" (a cover of the ElvisPresley classic), "Sex Bomb", and the song that has become his signature, "She's a Lady".

Since the 1960s, Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE (born 7 June 1940 in Pontypridd, South Wales), better known by his stage name "Tom Jones"... or these days, "Sir Tom Jones" , is a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] singer. He became one of the most popular vocalists to emerge from the [[British Invasion]] has sung nearly every form of popular music (pop, rock, R&B, punk, show tunes, country, club music, techno, soul, gospel, blues, ''and'' rap) and sold over 100 million records. He has almost forty Top 40 hits to his name, including "It's Not Unusual", "What's New Pussycat", "Delilah", "The Green Grass of Home", "Kiss" (a cover of the {{Prince}} classic that actually outsold the original), "Burning Love" (a cover of the ElvisPresley classic), "Sex Bomb", and the song that has become his signature, "She's a Lady".