Hmmm, most people I was at school with would struggle to give more than a loose phonetic approximation or (on paper) a badly-spelt effort with a lot of gaps.
Mind you, Tom Jones is an icon of Welshness who must surely have been called upon to sing this on numerous occasions, so you'd expect him to make a better fist of it...
I can't remember what the programme was (Louis Theroux?) but didn't someone once interview a US black nationalist who insisted that Tom Jones was actually black?
I don't think his theory was based on anything as solid as the history of immigration in Cardiff or whatever; just that he had a really good voice so he must be black.
I realise that I am getting into "He has a natural sense of rhythm" territory here but he has always had, how should I put this, very tight curly black hair.
Oh, fuck it, Tom has always had a 'fro. I was trying to find a picture of him fully 'froed up in the 60s but couldn't so here is a pic of him and Rick Rubin
I don't think his theory was based on anything as solid as the history of immigration in Cardiff or whatever; just that he had a really good voice so he must be black.
Even the history of immigration in Cardiff would have been a red herring as Tom is from Pontypridd which is only 10-15 miles up the road but, once you get away from very multi-cultural Cardiff, there is a fairly sharp drop-off in non-white faces that you see.
On the other hand, Elvis' family came from the Preseli mountains
Hmmm, most people I was at school with would struggle to give more than a loose phonetic approximation or (on paper) a badly-spelt effort with a lot of gaps.
Mind you, Tom Jones is an icon of Welshness who must surely have been called upon to sing this on numerous occasions, so you'd expect him to make a better fist of it...
Hmmm, most people I was at school with would struggle to give more than a loose phonetic approximation or (on paper) a badly-spelt effort with a lot of gaps.
Mind you, Tom Jones is an icon of Welshness who must surely have been called upon to sing this on numerous occasions, so you'd expect him to make a better fist of it...
Weren't you at School in England?
For two years, yes. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Romilly Infants, Romilly Juniors and Barry Boys'.
I realise that I am getting into "He has a natural sense of rhythm" territory here but he has always had, how should I put this, very tight curly black hair.
Oh, fuck it, Tom has always had a 'fro.
That "always" assumes Tom's current hair is all his own.
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