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Tom On “Wake Up With Wogan” On BBC Radio 2 Monday Morning. Here’s The Interview:
Monday, October 6th, 2008
On the air with Sir Terry Wogan, Tom introduced his UK single, If He Should Ever Leave You on this, a most-popular morning radio show. Tom was charming and clearly excited about the new CD in this most pleasant 13+ minutes. And we were most impressed at how bright-eyed and bushy-tailed Tom sounded at 8:34 a.m.
He said he’ll be in the UK for three weeks this trip and, next year, will have a full-scale tour there.
Awhile before Tom went on the air, Terry Wogan read a wish from our friend The Georgia Peach. Then, after the interview, read a message from Paula, our UK friend, who said, “I don’t remember when I was last so hopelessly excited first thing on a Monday morning….”
Between those messages, right before he began the interview by playing It’s Not Unusual, Sir Terry read the message below from us:
“We have the largest Tom Jones fan website in the world, tomjonesinternational.com, and we want Sir Tom to know we join all his fans in wishing him the best with “24 Hours.” We’re listening to you here in Las Vegas…Ellen & Ursula”
He commented on the time difference and, then, said something about fans in Las Vegas toward the end of the interview. So, here it is in two parts:
Wogan Interview • 10-06-08 • Part I • Wogan Interview 10•06•08 Part II
We hope you enjoyed the interview as much as we did and, we have to say we love the last few, plaintive horn notes in the song. So haunting.
Apologies for the rough cuts of the interview. We’ll try to get better.
Here’s a brief — too brief — review of 24 Hours from Music Week. Since it’s a “real” music publication, we’d like to see lots more at great length as the release date gets closer. We understand that commitments here in Las Vegas inhibit the UK promotion, but hopefully there’ll be plenty of phoners he can do to keep it fresh.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Wow, guys! I stayed up late to listen and, no sooner was it over than you had it posted. You are amazing and I loved your message.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:00 am
Although I’m not a fan of Terry Wogan, it was great to hear Tom on this side of the pond. I wondered if the sheep at the start of the interview related to Tom and Wales and didn’t know really which way to take it.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:15 am
It’s unbelievable how quickly you got this posted. All Tom’s fans owe you such a debt of thanks for the terrific job you do.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Thank you so much for posting these interviews, I know it is making a lot of fans on Tom’s Official site very very happy. Thanks Ellen & Ursula!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 6th, 2008 at 6:57 am
I got home from work just in time to catch the show on The BBC and I thank you guys so much for getting it on here so quickly,you truly are the “BEST” Tom Jones site in the world,and after hear the song If He Should Ever Leave You I realize I really like the song very catchy like Give a Little Love find myself humming it all the time
October 6th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Gill: Well, we found Sir Terry a nice, pleasant interviewer — and not enough people play Idina Menzel’s music (and her husband is amazing!). As for the “sheep” thing — well, Tom’s opening video has a sheep and when we’ve seen it, the Welsh with us laugh quite heartily. Tom must think it funny, or it wouldn’t be in his video, right? Seems to us when we’re so quick to take offense, we’re often offended. Unnecessarily.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:09 am
As always, you are fabulous! Thanks for having this up so fast. I thoroughly enjoyed it — always enjoy hearing Tom being interviewed: his laugh is delicious and especially enjoyed the bit about “.. having Sister Dipsomania sedated, Sister Pyromania being doused and Sister Nymphomania being restrained.. all because you’re here.” Too Perfect.
Sounds like we have three weeks of goodies from the UK to come! Wonderful, wonderful! Thanks for the great work you do for us, and for Tom.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Who is better than you? Thanks so much, Ellen, for staying up until the wee hours to record this. It is lovely.