my first guest tonight is one of the most popular performers in the entire world
he is appearing through march 25th at the westbury music fair here in new york city
it's quite a pleasure to welcome this man please now greet mr tom jones
thank you very much
how are you hi thanks nice to see you thank you i appreciate you being on the show let me uh
you know we we try to get a hold of you this afternoon so just chat a little bit about the
show and they said well uh tom tom's hours are a little different yeah and then we said well like
how different they said well he usually doesn't get in so seven in the morning yeah that's true
but what are you doing until seven this morning well um like last night what happened last night
you you were working right yeah okay what happened well after i finish work we come
back into new york city and this is from westbury from west right how'd the show go great thank you
okay yeah and uh we find you know the great thing about new york city is it's it's a it's a late
city yeah as you know with restaurants stay open late and disc attacks go you know four o'clock so
uh we go to a restaurant get something to eat and then hang out in one of the discos so by the time
you know by the time you wrap it all in by the time you get to bed it's it's generally 6 30 or
7 o'clock wow now now where where did you eat last night uh last night we had in um maxwell's plum
yeah and yeah so you finished up there about what time uh four o'clock but that was it it was early
night last night you see because i know i had to do this show today so you said four o'clock and
i gotta go that's right yeah four o'clock all right well i'm glad you're here um now let's
see i have your copy of the tom jones biography let me just read a little passage that caught
my eye this afternoon if we can find it well now you can't do that every night can you yeah
why not i don't know you know you could get a paper route as long as you're up that early
but make a couple of bucks on your way home selling papers
at seven o'clock in the morning though i'm in no condition to uh
to deliver papers here it is right here this is from your biography okay perspiration drips from
his elbows to such an extent that the people in the front row must be prepared to be splashed
but jones continues to sing and the ladies continue to swoon
now you ought to get some dress shields or something
sweating from your actual yeah i perspire a lot you know when i work yeah so it it just
drips off my elbows you know when you hold the microphone up like that i see it runs down it
comes off yeah and if you move around it's gotta it's gotta go yeah now um now you're you're doing
more and more country music right yeah at the moment yes because uh you know the songs
that have been sent my way lately the better songs i feel have been country songs yeah and
do you feel comfortable making that transition to country music well i i haven't really um you know
crossed over completely because on stage i i do everything you know rock and roll and
rhythm of blues all kinds of stuff sweat from the elbows i never think but when you go in
the studio you know when you record you have to take some direction you have to know what kind
of record you're going to make you can't make a mishmash of different songs for an album right
now do you find when you're when you say you're doing uh uh performing in front of an audience
that's primarily of course i guess you wouldn't draw primarily a country audience like you said
but do people who hear that kind of music do they still do the same kind of things that the you know
i'm talking about women heaving things on stage is it any difference in the garments you get uh no
no because i i don't do that much country you know in in the show yeah so the majority of
now does that stuff still happen yes now what is it is it true that they throw keys on stage
yes and what do you do with the keys you can't well no you see that the reason that people
throw things on the stage is in order to to come up and get it back oh i see so you know it's it's
just to try and get your attention and then they come up the stage and you hand it back i see now
did they ever come back after after the show and then try and get something back then uh sometimes
you