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An Interesting Bit O’History: 1978, Warner Theater, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 13th, 2007Here is video of Tom singing Have You Ever Been Lonely? at the Warner Theater in Washington, DC, in 1978.
The video, probably a bootleg, is not good. But, aside from the fact that this is one of our favorite songs from the Say You’ll Stay Until Tomorrow album, we believe this might have been the concert he did with Tina Turner and others in support of the ultimately-never-passed (and much lamented) Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution (which barred discrimination on the basis of gender).
We don’t know of Tom taking a political stand of any kind (except, maybe the closing of the Burberry factory in Wales) before or since. And he did pick a good cause.
You’ll notice, too, that in this number he does some of the same stuff he did when he recently did Hi Heel Sneakers. You know, “you’ve gotta give your woman what she wants.”…etc.”
October 13th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
That “give your woman what she wants” routine sums up the magic that is Tom Jones for me! THANK YOU AGAIN!
October 13th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Did the other artists who recorded this song have a much different interpretation? Tom seemed to make a fun song out of it, and I don’t recall if others sang it as more of a sad country song??
October 13th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
OK, Marian, did some research. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline did a slower duet on this and so did Mel Tillis and Ernest Tubb(!). Tom’s is more upbeat but, on the other hand, after listening, one is more inclined to see that he’s never lonely again.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves doing their version.
Quite different, imagine Ernest Tubb’s was even a more twangy version.
Note: And if Tom had kept up those hip movements for many more years, he would be requiring hip replacements by now. Just joking…he still has good moves…….
October 17th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Tom’s done a few political things here and there. He took part in The Simple Truth concert in London(1991 I think) in aid of Kurdish refugees. I also remember him doing an Amnesty International tv show as well as one of their big theatre gigs. In the seventies I believe he took a stand against apartheid in South Africa by saying that the shows he was doing there should have integrated audiences (I think a compromise was agreed). All good.