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Jun 6, 2019 · Tom Jones - She's A Lady • TopPop. Sir Thomas John Woodward OBE (born 7 June 1940), known professionally as Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. His career has spanned six decades, from his...
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Sir Thomas Jones Woodward, KBE (born 7 June 1940), best known by his stage name, Tom Jones, is a Welsh pop singer particularly noted for his powerful voice. He was born in Treforest, near Pontypridd in South Wales.
This list of performances on Top of the Pops is a chronological account of popular songs performed by recording artists and musical ensembles on Top of the Pops, a weekly BBC One television programme that featured artists from the UK Singles Chart.
Taken from TOTP (BBC1) on Friday 6th March 1998
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- I'm Coming Home
- Till
- With These Hands
- Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings
- Kiss
- Thunderball
- Burning Down The House
- Stoned in Love
- What's New Pussycat
- Help Yourself
Written by Les Reed, whose hits included It's Not Unusual and Delilah (more on those later), this gentle, forlorn ballad was a one-off single release that became the first of five Number 2 hits for Tom.
One of five Number 2-peaking singles for Tom, this wistful pop number oozing with melancholy has been covered by several iconic singers, including Shirley Bassey in 1961 and Tony Bennett that same year - but Tom took it to its highest chart position.
Recently boosted by an unplanned performance on The Voice UKearlier this year, With These Hands was a minor hit for Shirley Bassey five years before Tom took it to Number 13.
Lifted from his hugely successful Green, Green Grass Of Home album, this Top 10 hit marked the time when Tom began to move on from his teenage audience and focused on a more mature sound.
A Prince cover that Tom had been performing in his Vegas show, this collaboration with synth-pop group The Art Of Noise is credited with reviving Tom's career, reaching Number 5 on the Official Singles Chart.
The story goes that Tom fainted in the recording booth after belting the final note of this extravagant James Bond theme. It's easy to hear why. See where every James Bond theme has charted in the UK here.
This Talking Heads cover with The Cardigans served as the lead single from Tom's Reload album, and gave him his first Top 10 single in more than a decade, peaking at Number 7.
Tom's hook-up with British house producer Chicane gave him an 18th UK Top 10 hit. The accompanying music videoshows a robber on the run, wearing a mask that looks eerily like Tom himself....
Streams: 3.8 million The theme song for the eponymous film was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song. The track proved to be a bigger hit in America than in the UK, where it topped out at 11.
Streams: 3.96 million One of Tom's most popular early hits after topping the charts in several countries and peaking at Number 5 in the UK, Help Yourself is an English-language rework of popular Italian song Gli Occhi Miei(My Eyes).
Jones wrote or co-wrote the following songs: "And I Tell the Sea", [135] "Looking Out My Window", [136] "Feel the Rain" from the 2002 Mr. Jones album, [137] "Jezebel", [137] "The Letter", [137] "Younger Days", [137] "Tom Jones International", [137] "Holiday", [137] "The Road", [138] "24 Hours", [139] "Seasons", [139] "We Got Love", [139] "Seen ...
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Sep 2, 2022 · Sir Tom Jones is one of the world's most celebrated British artists and in 2020 he celebrated his 80th birthday, but just what are the greatest Tom Jones songs of all time? To celebrate the Welsh icon's big milestone, let's look back at his greatest ever songs for the perfect Sir Tom Jones playlist:
