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Tom Jones Back In the Day — Weeding, Puttering & Talking About Marriage & Children
Saturday, December 27th, 2008Note: As of Saturday, December 27, Billboard places 24 Hours in the Top 100 European charts and the Official European Chart Company has the CD moving up seven places this week.
If you missed them on youtube, there are two bits of video from the same interview Tom did on TV back in the 1960s. There he is — weeding some odd patch of land, explaining the rules for a spouse of “a married pop singer,” puttering around the house being domestic (fiddling with a decorative sword) and talking about the possibility of his child being spoiled.
Even though you can almost hear the producer and/or director suggesting that he do “something” domestic (yet masculine), it’s lovely video of a time when so much was still ahead. Could he, or anyone, have imagined what was to come?
Because the quality isn’t too great — the sound, especially, is fuzzy, but understandable — I tried to improve on it and put the two clips into one video. You’ll find it at the TJI.com Video Library.
December 27th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Lovely.
December 27th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Tom and Mark looked so sweet together by the pond. Nice clip.
December 28th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Lovely surprise video. Tom is many wonderful things BUT he clearly isn’t a gardener.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
What a wonderful video. He has a lovely family.