• Collection of live performances
• Includes BBC radio broadcasts
• Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality
• Interviews, background liners and rare images
Tom Jones, live at the BBC 1965-1968
Tom Jones' journey from a small Valleys town Teddy Boy in South Wales to international superstar is both phenomenal and familiar to many. However, his recording career began in 1964 with local group The Squires whose regular visits to the BBC's Paris Theatre Studios chart a less familiar path for the world famous singer.
His powerhouse performances for the BBC and interviews conducted by host Brian Matthew, provide a fascinating account of a youthful Tom Jones who was only just starting out on the journey to stardom. Manager Gordon Mills would have to contain the raw energy for a wider audience in later years, but the sessions produced here featuring tracks exclusive to these sessions only, tell of a less polished but highly charged talent in-the-making whose passion for soul and R&B is prominent here.
London Calling very proudly presents Tom Jones, live at the BBC from his formative years as a raunchy rock 'n' roller in from 1965 to 1968. Professionally re-mastered original broadcasts with background liners and rare archival photographs.
TRACKS
Disc One
1965
March 12th
1. Can I Get a Witness
2. It's Not Unusual (with interview) (backed by Tony Osborne)
3. Once Upon A Time
May 21st
4. Lucille
5. Once Upon A Time (with interview)
6. It's Not Unusual
June 11th
7. Little By Little
8. Once Upon A Time (with interview)
9. Bama Lama Bama Loo
September 9th
10. Spanish Harlem
11. What'cha Gonna Do
12. With These Hands (with Interview)
13. What'd I Say?
December 24th
14. In the Midnight Hour
15. Thunderball (with Interview)
16. Treat Her Right
1966
January 28th
17. The Rose
18. The Key to My Heart (with interview)
19. Long Tall Sally
July 8th
20. Not Responsible
21. Stupidity
22. Once There Was a Time
23. Sticks and Stones
August 26th
24. Summertime
25. Not Responsible (with interview)
26. The Green Green Grass of Home
27. Living, Loving Wreck
December 16th
28. Shake
Disc Two
1966
December 16th
1. He'll Have to go
2. The Green Green Grass of Home (with interview)
3. What Did I Say
1967
March 24th
4. Detroit City (with interview)
5. Land of a Thousand Dances
April 14th
6. I (Who Have Nothing)
7. Detroit City (with interview)
8. Barefootin'
May 19th
9. Do It Right
10. Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings (with interview)
11. Big Boss Man
June 16th
12. My Prayer
13. Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings (with interview)
14. Money Honey
August 18th
15. Trying to Find My Baby
16. Sea of Heartbreaks
17. I'll Never Fall in Love Again (with interview)
18 Land of a Thousand Dances
September 8th
19. I Can't Stop Loving You
20. Sixteen Tons
December 29th
21. Good News
22. I'm coming Home (with interview)
23. Don't Fight It
1968
January 19th
24. Money Honey